Sometimes looking back over the history of Nintendo consoles, or any video game consoles for that matter, can be both exciting and nostalgic. I used to own a batch of very popular portable Nintendo consoles that was called the Game Boy. This was a smaller handheld unit that offered a black and white, dot matrix screen, a direction pad and two buttons. The limitations on the games that you could play were vast, and the unit offered about 2-bit graphics at best. But hey, it was awesome if you owned one as a kid, because that was the cream of the crop back in those days. Today, however, the Nintendo consoles are far more advanced. Their newest portable console is called the Nintendo DS Lite which features two color screens, one that can even be used with a stylus pen. The unit has a built in wireless card that can connect to Nintendo’s free WIFI network so gamers can link up from around the world and play each other. And the games are roughly 8-bit in graphical capabilities, opening up whole new worlds for Nintendo console lovers like myself!
