gunntims0103
February 24th, 2007, 06:40
news via kotaku (http://kotaku.com/gaming/nintendo/playing-ds-in-zero-gravity-239357.php)
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Jaime, from the Kotaku Reader Hall of Fame, was the lucky winner of the MTV sponsored trip to play a Nintendo DS under zero gravity conditions. We said, "Send photos." So Jaime did! He even recounted the weightless adventure of trying to play the Americanized version of Ouendan without vomiting all over his Star Fox playing buddies.
The goods:
I won the contest and was able to attend the flight a few weeks ago, and the awesome folks over at MTV got the whole thing on tape and finally put it on their website. I'm not going to lie, playing a touch screen based game in zero gravity is extremely difficult (I had to set Elite Beat Agents down to easy in order to get anywhere) and my friend had an equally hard time with Star Fox Command. If anything, the trip should have been a testimony as to how many beatings the DS lite can take, as it was stepped on and knocked out of my hands countless times and still works perfectly. One interesting note was how our flight instructor, Steve Steiner, actually brings his DS with him on these trips to kill some time.
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http://kotaku.com/assets/resources/2007/02/zerog_ds1.jpg
Jaime, from the Kotaku Reader Hall of Fame, was the lucky winner of the MTV sponsored trip to play a Nintendo DS under zero gravity conditions. We said, "Send photos." So Jaime did! He even recounted the weightless adventure of trying to play the Americanized version of Ouendan without vomiting all over his Star Fox playing buddies.
The goods:
I won the contest and was able to attend the flight a few weeks ago, and the awesome folks over at MTV got the whole thing on tape and finally put it on their website. I'm not going to lie, playing a touch screen based game in zero gravity is extremely difficult (I had to set Elite Beat Agents down to easy in order to get anywhere) and my friend had an equally hard time with Star Fox Command. If anything, the trip should have been a testimony as to how many beatings the DS lite can take, as it was stepped on and knocked out of my hands countless times and still works perfectly. One interesting note was how our flight instructor, Steve Steiner, actually brings his DS with him on these trips to kill some time.
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