Feature focussing on the Simple Series of games by Simple Series for the Nintendo DS.
Taken from NGamer 33 - March 2009 (UK)
I know this series very well from the tons of games that were released under this label on PSone and PS2 in Japan, but I completely forgot that it extended to the DS.
This issue can be found in full here:
https://www.outofprintarchive.com/catalogue/ngamer.html
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@ishambard@cupoftea.social
Speaking of dictionaries, that gave a flashback to the Touch Dic and Hand Dic software on Nintendo DS and PSP respectively.
I wonder if the game actually really released as Touch Dic in the end or if there's is only the version that says Touch Dictionary as I can't seem to find an actual copy anywhere.
@OutofPrintArchive@mstdn.games
Ignoring those names for a second...
The DS was the perfect device to have an array of tools, like dictionaries developed for it. I had an electronic dictionary when I was abroad, and it was just an amazing device that cost me a small fortune...
I still have it somewhere, but today, I tend to go to Jisho.org whenever I need to translate the odd word
@ishambard@cupoftea.social
Oh absolutely.
On the Patreon only podcast of Retronauts this past weekend about the DS, they actually went into this, how the DS was so much better equipped to handle that kind of software compared to the PSP.
The touchscreen, as well as being able to use the system in vertical mode with the two screens next to each other like a little book.
Developers really were able to do a ton of original stuff with it.