🎩 Lunch With Professor Layton 🎩 #NintendoDs #RetroGaming

A few years ago my daughter had reached the age to get her first console and after doing my research I felt that at the age of 5 a 2DS would be perfect, and it was. We played a lot of Animal Crossing New Leaf together and totally enjoyed our time with the 2DS but then everything changed in 2017 when I got my Nintendo Switch. It was at that point that my kids wanted to play my Switch way more than the 2DS and the poor old 2DS was resigned to its fate to live on a shelf next to the DSi.

Meanwhile, I fast forward to 2021 when for some reason I got the hankering to play a Professor Layton game as I had never got round to playing Professor Layton before and it has been a franchise that I have admired from afar.

🕹️ Video Game Hardware Timelines - Nintendo Timeline - 1889 to 2017 🕹️ #Retrogaming #Nintendo

After doing a SEGA timeline and having a first stab at a Nintendo Timeline in the articles below I decided to take another look at the Nintendo Timeline and fit it into the style of the one I did for SEGA as it seems to visually display the timeline in a better way.

Nintendo started out in 1889 with cards and then moved into video games in 1977. The rise and rise of Nintendo from then onwards has been documented millions of times over the years with only a few bumps in the road such as the Virtual Boy in 1995 and some even point to the GameCube or the Wii U as being failures but I don't think so.

So here just for you is the NINTENDO HARDWARE TIMELINE 1889 to 2017...

☆ Video Game Hardware Timelines - Nintendo: 1899 to 2017 ☆ #Retrogaming

The grand old lady of video games is Nintendo and the history of Nintendo is something special in all gamers hearts.

This timeline shows Nintendo starting all that way back in 1899 with playing cards right up until today with their formiddable Switch console.

☆ SUPA_DS Display Stands Are Awesome! ☆ #Retrogaming #GamersUnite

Recently I came across a really cool piece of gaming kit that has retro gaming collectors who love to display their gaming hardware in mind.

The range of display stands come under the name of Supa_Ds and I discovered them whilst on Twitter…..

My Modification Nightmare 🎮 #GamersUnite #Nintendo @nintendorepair

Have You Ever Started Something And Wish You Hadn't?

Well, recently I had that sinking feeling consume me after I started to mod my Nintendo DS Lite with what I thought was a simple piece of DIY.....

A DS Lite case swap......

☆ The Handheld That Almost Passed Me By.... ☆ #GamersUnite

Having never been one to keep up with current trends in video games I tend to focus my efforts on obtaining the retro gaming systems from the past that I owned and loved or the ones that I wish I had owned.

 

More recently though I have been dabbling in looking out for more current consoles that are now available at super cheap prices.

 

One such console that I recently acquired fitted the super cheap bill perfectly and it's now something that I just can't put down…..