Nintendo DS games

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• Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth (Nintendo DS, 2010, Capcom): Prosecutor Miles Edgeworth walks the crime scenes himself, gathering clues and connecting them with logic to expose the culprits, in the series' first spin-off.
• Advance Wars: Days of Ruin (Nintendo DS, 2008, Nintendo): After meteor strikes ruin the world, Will and the 12th Battalion command tanks, bombers and infantry in turn-based battles across the wasteland.
• Advance Wars: Dual Strike (Nintendo DS, 2005, Nintendo): Orange Star and its allies take on the Black Hole army, with battles fought on two fronts at once across both screens and commanding officers in tag teams.
• Adventure Time: Hey Ice King! Why'd You Steal Our Garbage?!! (Nintendo DS, 2012, D3 Publisher): Finn and Jake chase the Ice King across the Land of Ooo after he steals their garbage, in a side-scrolling adventure in the style of Zelda II.
• Age of Empires: Mythologies (Nintendo DS, 2008, THQ): Greek, Egyptian and Norse armies clash in turn-based battles, calling on heroes and the powers of their gods, in a pocket Age of Mythology.
• Age of Empires: The Age of Kings (Nintendo DS, 2006, Majesco Entertainment): Joan of Arc, Richard the Lionheart, Saladin, Genghis Khan and Minamoto no Yoshitsune lead their nations through turn-based medieval campaigns.
• Alice in Wonderland (Nintendo DS, 2010, Disney Interactive Studios): Alice returns to Underland from Tim Burton's film, and the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat and friends lend her their powers to get past its puzzles.
• Aliens: Infestation (Nintendo DS, 2011, Sega): A squad of Colonial Marines searches the derelict Sulaco and the planet below in a side-scrolling Metroidvania, where marines lost to the xenomorphs are gone for good.
• Animal Crossing: Wild World (Nintendo DS, 2005, Nintendo): Move into a village of animal neighbors and live there day by day in real time: fish, catch bugs, pay off your house and decorate it.
• Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney (Nintendo DS, 2008, Capcom): Rookie defense attorney Apollo Justice takes his first cases under a disgraced Phoenix Wright, watching witnesses for the nervous habits that give their lies away.
• Arkanoid DS (Nintendo DS, 2008, Square Enix): Taito's block breaker stretched over two screens: guide the Vaus paddle to smash the bricks of stage after stage, with power-ups and bosses.
• Asphalt: Urban GT (Nintendo DS, 2004, Ubisoft): Street racing through real cities in licensed cars from Lamborghinis to Hummers, upgrading them between races and outrunning the police.
• Avalon Code (Nintendo DS, 2009, Xseed Games): Before the world ends, a chosen hero records everything worth saving in the Book of Prophecy, rewriting the codes of monsters and items to change them.
• Bangai-O Spirits (Nintendo DS, 2008, D3 Publisher): Treasure's mech shooter fills the screen with hundreds of missiles at once across puzzle-like stages, plus an editor for making your own.
• Big Bang Mini (Nintendo DS, 2009, SouthPeak Games): Flick fireworks up from the touch screen to burst enemies above, steering your little ship with the stylus to dodge their fire.
• Big Brain Academy (Nintendo DS, 2006, Nintendo): Dr. Lobe grades your brain on quick tests of thinking, memory, analysis, math and identification, and weighs it in grams.
• Bleach: Dark Souls (Nintendo DS, 2008, Sega): Ichigo and the Soul Reapers clash in Treasure's fast fighter, with support cards played from the touch screen.
• Bleach: The Blade of Fate (Nintendo DS, 2007, Sega): Treasure's Bleach fighter puts Soul Reapers on two planes of each stage to jump between, with support cards played from the touch screen.
• Blue Dragon: Awakened Shadow (Nintendo DS, 2011, D3 Publisher): A hero who awakens a shadow of his own joins Shu, Jiro and Kluke against a new threat, in a real-time action RPG set after Blue Dragon Plus.
• Blue Dragon Plus (Nintendo DS, 2009, Ignition Entertainment): Shu and his friends set out to stop a mysterious cube world from tearing their planet apart, in a real-time strategy RPG sequel to Blue Dragon.
• Bomberman 2 (Nintendo DS, 2008, Hudson Soft): Bomberman bombs his way through maze stages in a story mode where new gear changes his abilities, plus the classic battle mode.
• Bomberman Land Touch! (Nintendo DS, 2006, Hudson Soft): Bomberman and friends visit a theme park of touch-screen attractions, winning pieces in dozens of mini-games to open new areas.
• Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars – The Director's Cut (Nintendo DS, 2009, Ubisoft): George Stobbart and Nico Collard follow a Paris café bombing into a Knights Templar conspiracy, with new scenes and puzzles in the point-and-click classic.
• Bust-A-Move DS (Nintendo DS, 2006, Majesco Entertainment): Aim and launch colored bubbles with the stylus, banking them off the walls to match three and drop the clusters, in Taito's puzzle classic.
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare: Mobilized (Nintendo DS, 2009, Activision): First-person missions as SAS commandos and U.S. Marines, aimed with the stylus, in the DS take on modern warfare.
• Call of Duty: World at War (Nintendo DS, 2008, Activision): World War II in first person on the DS, from Pacific islands to the fall of Berlin, as American, British and Soviet soldiers.
• Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow (Nintendo DS, 2005, Konami): Soma Cruz absorbs the souls of monsters to take their powers as a cult tries to make him the new Dracula, in a Metroid-style castle crawl.
• Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia (Nintendo DS, 2008, Konami): Shanoa wields glyphs drawn from her enemies to fight Dracula's forces across the villages and castles of Wallachia, in one of the series' toughest quests.
• Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin (Nintendo DS, 2006, Konami): Jonathan Morris and Charlotte Aulin explore Dracula's castle and the cursed paintings inside it, switching between whip and magic as a team.
• Chibi-Robo! Park Patrol (Nintendo DS, 2007, Nintendo): The tiny robot Chibi-Robo brings a dying park back to life, growing flowers by dancing, fixing toys and fending off smoke monsters.
• Children of Mana (Nintendo DS, 2006, Nintendo): Four young heroes dive into dungeons around the Mana Tree to stop a returning Mana Storm, in a dungeon-crawling action RPG.
• Chrono Trigger (DS) (Nintendo DS, 2008, Square Enix): Square's time-travel classic on the DS: Crono and friends leap across eras to stop Lavos, with new dungeons, a monster arena and the anime scenes.
• Clubhouse Games (Nintendo DS, 2006, Nintendo): Dozens of board, card and table games in one, from chess and checkers to poker, darts and bowling.
• Contact (Nintendo DS, 2006, Atlus): Terry helps a professor stranded on a strange planet recover his ship's power cells, in an RPG where the professor talks straight to the player.
• Contra 4 (Nintendo DS, 2007, Konami): Bill and Lance fight an alien invasion across both screens with grappling hooks and spread guns, in a punishing return to 2D Contra.
• Cooking Mama (Nintendo DS, 2006, Majesco Entertainment): Chop, peel, stir and fry your way through dozens of recipes with the stylus under Mama's watchful eye, earning her praise or her fiery glare.
• Cooking Mama 2: Dinner with Friends (Nintendo DS, 2007, Majesco Entertainment): Mama's friends are coming to dinner, and there are more than 80 recipes to cook with the stylus, step by step.
• Cory in the House (Nintendo DS, 2007, Disney Interactive Studios): Cory Baxter schemes his way around the White House, talking, sneaking and playing mini-games, in a game based on the Disney Channel show.
• Custom Robo Arena (Nintendo DS, 2007, Nintendo): A new student at a Custom Robo academy builds a robot from parts and battles rivals in 3D arenas.
• DK: Jungle Climber (Nintendo DS, 2007, Nintendo): Donkey Kong climbs across islands by grabbing pegs with his left and right hands, one shoulder button each, to stop an alien's scheme.
• The Dark Spire (Nintendo DS, 2009, Atlus): A party of adventurers climbs a wizard's tower floor by floor in a hard, old-school dungeon crawler, drawn in wireframe or full color.
• Dementium: The Ward (Nintendo DS, 2007, Gamecock Media Group): A patient wakes in a monster-filled hospital with no memory and fights his way out with a flashlight and whatever weapons he finds.
• Dementium II (Nintendo DS, 2010, SouthPeak Games): William Redmoor escapes a sanitarium and the hellish world behind it in the first-person horror sequel.
• Digimon World: Dusk (Nintendo DS, 2008, Namco Bandai Games): A young tamer collects, raises and digivolves hundreds of Digimon to save the digital world. The Dusk edition.
• Digimon World DS (Nintendo DS, 2006, Namco Bandai Games): A tamer searches the digital world for Digimon to befriend, train and digivolve, in a monster-raising RPG.
• Dinosaur King (Nintendo DS, 2008, Sega): Max and his friends battle the Alpha Gang around the world with dinosaurs revived from cards, in a rock-paper-scissors battle RPG.
• Disgaea DS (Nintendo DS, 2008, NIS America): Demon prince Laharl wakes from a two-year nap and fights to claim his father's throne in the Netherworld, in the over-the-top tactical RPG.
• Dragon Ball: Origins (Nintendo DS, 2008, Namco Bandai Games): Young Goku and Bulma hunt the Dragon Balls in an action adventure retelling the start of the saga, played with the stylus.
• Dragon Ball Z: Attack of the Saiyans (Nintendo DS, 2009, Namco Bandai Games): Gohan, Krillin and Piccolo train for the Saiyans' arrival in a turn-based RPG retelling the Saiyan saga.
• Dragon Ball Z: Supersonic Warriors 2 (Nintendo DS, 2005, Atari): Fighters from across the Dragon Ball Z saga battle in teams of three in a 2D aerial fighter with beam clashes and touch-screen support.
• Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime (Nintendo DS, 2006, Square Enix): Rocket the slime stretches and slingshots enemies to rescue his town's slimes from the Plob, and fights tank battles in a mobile fortress.
• Dragon Quest IV: Chapters of the Chosen (Nintendo DS, 2008, Square Enix): Five chapters follow a soldier, a princess, a merchant and two dancers until they unite as the Chosen against Psaro the Manslayer.
• Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies (Nintendo DS, 2010, Nintendo): A fallen guardian angel builds a party of their own and gathers fruit from the World Tree across a huge world, with hundreds of items to craft.
• Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker (Nintendo DS, 2007, Square Enix): A young monster scout explores a chain of islands to recruit monsters, synthesize them into stronger ones and win the Monster Scout Challenge.
• Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2 (Nintendo DS, 2011, Nintendo): Stranded on an island after a plane crash, a young scout recruits wild monsters, breeds them into giants and enters the Monster Scout Challenge.
• Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride (Nintendo DS, 2009, Square Enix): A hero's whole life, from childhood through slavery to marriage and fatherhood, in a sweeping RPG where monsters can join the party.
• Dragon Quest VI: Realms of Revelation (Nintendo DS, 2011, Nintendo): A hero travels between the waking world and the world of dreams to find out who he really is, mastering vocations from warrior to sage.
• Drawn to Life (Nintendo DS, 2007, THQ): You draw the hero, weapons and platforms with the stylus to save the Raposa village from the Shadow, then play through the world you drew.
• Drawn to Life: SpongeBob SquarePants Edition (Nintendo DS, 2008, THQ): SpongeBob saves Bikini Bottom with your drawings: draw platforms, weapons and gadgets with the stylus, then play through the levels with them.
• Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter (Nintendo DS, 2009, THQ): Your drawn hero returns to save the Raposa from Wilfre's Shadow, with new things to draw and new worlds to cross.
• Electroplankton (Nintendo DS, 2006, Nintendo): Ten kinds of plankton turn taps, swirls and your voice into music, in Toshio Iwai's playful sound toy.
• Elite Beat Agents (Nintendo DS, 2006, Nintendo): A secret squad of dancing agents cheers people through crises, as you tap and slide to the beat of rock and pop hits on the touch screen.
• Etrian Odyssey (Nintendo DS, 2007, Atlus): Explorers map the vast labyrinth beneath the town of Etria by hand, drawing each floor on the touch screen as they fight their way down.
• Etrian Odyssey II: Heroes of Lagaard (Nintendo DS, 2008, Atlus): A new guild climbs Lagaard's labyrinth toward a legendary floating castle, mapping every floor by hand on the touch screen.
• Etrian Odyssey III: The Drowned City (Nintendo DS, 2010, Atlus): Adventurers dive into a labyrinth beneath the seaside city of Armoroad and sail the ocean above it, mapping both by hand.
• Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light (Nintendo DS, 2010, Square Enix): Four young heroes answer a crystal's call in a storybook-styled RPG where crowns change their roles in battle.
• Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time (Nintendo DS, 2009, Square Enix): A young hero searches for a cure for crystal sickness in an action RPG of spells, jumping and dungeon puzzles.
• Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates (Nintendo DS, 2008, Square Enix): The twins Yuri and Chelinka set out after the masked man who killed their father, combining spells and teamwork in an action RPG.
• Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo Tales (Nintendo DS, 2007, Square Enix): Chocobo rescues his friends from the storybooks of a dark wizard, through touch-screen mini-games and pop-up card duels.
• Final Fantasy III (DS) (Nintendo DS, 2006, Square Enix): Four orphans chosen by the crystals switch jobs, from knight to dragoon to summoner, to bring light back to the world, remade in 3D.
• Final Fantasy IV (DS) (Nintendo DS, 2008, Square Enix): Dark knight Cecil turns against his king and seeks redemption as a paladin, in a 3D remake of the classic with voiced scenes.
• Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift (Nintendo DS, 2008, Square Enix): Luso is pulled into Ivalice by a magic book and takes on clan quests in grid battles, where a judge's law changes each fight.
• Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings (Nintendo DS, 2007, Square Enix): Vaan and his crew fly to the floating continent of Lemurés, summoning espers and leading sky pirates in real-time battles.
• Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon (Nintendo DS, 2009, Nintendo): Prince Marth fights to win back his homeland in turn-based battles where fallen allies are gone for good, in a remake of the first Fire Emblem.
• Flower, Sun, and Rain (Nintendo DS, 2009, Xseed Games): Searcher Sumio Mondo is stuck reliving the same day on an island resort, solving number puzzles with his suitcase computer to stop a plane bombing.
• Fossil Fighters (Nintendo DS, 2009, Nintendo): Dig up fossils on Vivosaur Island, clean them with the stylus and revive them as Vivosaurs for three-on-three battles.
• Fossil Fighters: Champions (Nintendo DS, 2011, Nintendo): A new fighter digs up, cleans and revives more than 140 Vivosaurs to enter the Caliosteo Cup and uncover the scheme behind it.
• Freshly-Picked Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland (Nintendo DS, 2007, Nintendo): Tingle buys, sells and bribes his way through a world where everything costs Rupees, filling Uncle Rupee's pool to reach the paradise of Rupeeland.
• Front Mission (Nintendo DS, 2007, Square Enix): Wanzer mechs fight turn-based battles over Huffman Island, in the remake of the first Front Mission with a second campaign.
• Geometry Wars: Galaxies (Nintendo DS, 2007, Sierra Entertainment): Blast neon swarms across a galaxy of planets, aiming with the stylus, with a drone at your side and the original Retro Evolved.
• Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective (Nintendo DS, 2011, Capcom): A murdered man's ghost possesses objects to change fate, saving lives four minutes before death while unraveling the mystery of his own.
• Giana Sisters DS (Nintendo DS, 2009, Destineer): Giana jumps, bounces and punches through dreamlike worlds in a modern update of the 1987 platformer.
• Glory of Heracles (Nintendo DS, 2010, Nintendo): An amnesiac immortal and his companions search ancient Greece for the truth about their deathless lives, in a turn-based RPG.
• Golden Sun: Dark Dawn (Nintendo DS, 2010, Nintendo): Thirty years after the first games, the heroes' children wield Psynergy and Djinn across a changed Weyard.
• Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars (Nintendo DS, 2009, Rockstar Games): Huang Lee comes to Liberty City to deliver his family's sword and is pulled into a Triad war, with touch-screen hotwiring, drug deals and police chases.
• Harvest Moon DS (Nintendo DS, 2005, Natsume): Restore a farm in Forget-Me-Not Valley while rescuing 101 Harvest Sprites from a witch, with crops, animals and marriage.
• Harvest Moon DS: Grand Bazaar (Nintendo DS, 2010, Natsume): Grow crops, raise animals and sell them at Zephyr Town's weekly bazaar, building it back into a bustling market.
• Harvest Moon DS: Sunshine Islands (Nintendo DS, 2008, Natsume): Raise sunken islands back from the sea with Sun Stones, then farm, fish and befriend the islanders.
• Harvest Moon DS: The Tale of Two Towns (Nintendo DS, 2011, Natsume): Two feuding mountain towns, one rustic and one Eastern, are brought together by your farming, festivals and cooking contests.
• Harvest Moon DS Cute (Nintendo DS, 2008, Natsume): The girl's version of Harvest Moon DS, with a farm in Forget-Me-Not Valley to restore and new bachelors to court.
• Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure (Nintendo DS, 2009, Electronic Arts): A gentleman adventurer fights on the top screen while defeated enemies drop into a block puzzle on the bottom one that powers up his attacks.
• Heroes of Mana (Nintendo DS, 2007, Square Enix): Roget and his allies fight a real-time strategy war across the world of Mana, summoning beasts and gathering resources.
• Hotel Dusk: Room 215 (Nintendo DS, 2007, Nintendo): Ex-detective Kyle Hyde checks into a run-down Nevada hotel in 1979 and unravels its guests' secrets, with the DS held sideways like a book.
• Inazuma Eleven (Nintendo DS, 2011, Nintendo): Mark Evans rebuilds his school's football club from nothing, recruiting players and beating rival teams with special shots in a football RPG.
• Inazuma Eleven 2: Blizzard (Nintendo DS, 2012, Nintendo): Raimon tours Japan recruiting new players to stop the alien Alius Academy, in the Blizzard edition of the football RPG.
• Inazuma Eleven 2: Firestorm (Nintendo DS, 2012, Nintendo): The Firestorm edition of Raimon's fight against Alius Academy, with its own recruits and rival teams.
• Infinite Space (Nintendo DS, 2010, Sega): Young Yuri buys his first spaceship and builds a fleet across a vast galaxy, designing ships and hiring crews for tactical space battles.
• Ivy the Kiwi? (Nintendo DS, 2010, Xseed Games): A newborn kiwi chick runs on her own, and you draw vines with the stylus to guide her past traps in search of her mother.
• Izuna: Legend of the Unemployed Ninja (Nintendo DS, 2007, Atlus): The jobless ninja Izuna braves cursed dungeons that rearrange on every visit, in a roguelike with a sense of humor.
• Izuna 2: The Unemployed Ninja Returns (Nintendo DS, 2008, Atlus): Izuna and friends take on new random dungeons, tagging partners in and out mid-fight.
• Jam with the Band (Nintendo DS, 2010, Nintendo): Play along to dozens of songs on instruments from piano to drums, picking the notes on the buttons and touch screen.
• Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days (Nintendo DS, 2009, Square Enix): Roxas, the newest member of Organization XIII, takes on missions with Xion and Axel through the days of his first year, in an action RPG.
• Kingdom Hearts Re:coded (Nintendo DS, 2011, Square Enix): A data version of Sora travels through a digitized copy of Jiminy's journal to fix the bugs corrupting it, in an action RPG of shifting genres.
• Kirby: Canvas Curse (Nintendo DS, 2005, Nintendo): A witch turns Kirby into a ball, and you guide him by drawing rainbow paths with the stylus through Drawcia's painted world.
• Kirby: Squeak Squad (Nintendo DS, 2006, Nintendo): Kirby chases the mouse thieves of the Squeak Squad after his stolen strawberry shortcake, storing copy abilities in his belly.
• Kirby Mass Attack (Nintendo DS, 2011, Nintendo): Split into ten little Kirbys by Necrodeus, you lead the whole swarm with the stylus, flicking them onto enemies to pile on.
• Kirby Super Star Ultra (Nintendo DS, 2008, Nintendo): The Super Nintendo's Kirby Super Star remade, with new modes, CG movies and touch-screen mini-games.
• Knights in the Nightmare (Nintendo DS, 2009, Atlus): A wisp guides the souls of fallen knights through bullet-dodging tactical battles in a dying kingdom, in Sting's genre-bending strategy RPG.
• LEGO Battles (Nintendo DS, 2009, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment): Build LEGO bases and armies of knights, pirates, wizards and space troops in real-time strategy battles.
• LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 (Nintendo DS, 2010, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment): Harry's first four years at Hogwarts rebuilt in LEGO, casting spells and solving puzzles with a cast of witches and wizards.
• LEGO Rock Band (Nintendo DS, 2009, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment): A LEGO band plays rock hits on guitar, bass, drums and vocals, tapping the notes with the buttons and the touch screen.
• LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga (Nintendo DS, 2007, LucasArts): All six Star Wars films rebuilt in LEGO, switching between Jedi, droids and smugglers as you smash and rebuild your way through.
• LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars (Nintendo DS, 2011, LucasArts): The Clone Wars in LEGO, from Jedi missions to large battles commanding clone troops.
• Last Window: The Secret of Cape West (Nintendo DS, 2010, Nintendo): A year after Hotel Dusk, Kyle Hyde is about to lose his Los Angeles apartment and digs into the building's past, in Cing's last game.
• The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (Nintendo DS, 2007, Nintendo): Link sails the World of the Ocean King to save Tetra, played entirely with the stylus, from sword strokes to notes drawn on the map.
• The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks (Nintendo DS, 2009, Nintendo): Engineer Link drives a train across Hyrule's tracks with Princess Zelda's spirit at his side, possessing Phantom armor to help him.
• The Legendary Starfy (Nintendo DS, 2009, Nintendo): Starfy, a star-shaped prince, swims and spins through undersea worlds to help a rabbit-like stranger who fell from the sky.
• Lock's Quest (Nintendo DS, 2008, THQ): Young Archineer Lock builds walls and turrets between waves of the Clockwork army, then fights alongside them in real-time defense battles.
• Looney Tunes: Duck Amuck (Nintendo DS, 2007, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment): Daffy Duck is at the mercy of the animator's pencil and eraser, and you torment him through a run of touch-screen mini-games.
• Lost in Blue (Nintendo DS, 2005, Konami): Keith and Skye are shipwrecked on a deserted island and survive together, foraging, fishing and building a shelter while hunting for rescue.
• Lost in Blue 2 (Nintendo DS, 2007, Konami): A boy and a girl shipwrecked on a deserted island survive by hunting, building and looking after each other.
• LostMagic (Nintendo DS, 2006, Ubisoft): Isaac draws runes with the stylus to cast spells and command monsters in real-time battles.
• Lufia: Curse of the Sinistrals (Nintendo DS, 2010, Natsume): An action remake of Lufia II: Maxim and his companions take on the Sinistrals in real-time battles and puzzle-filled dungeons.
• Luminous Arc (Nintendo DS, 2007, Atlus): Alph and the Garden Children of the church battle witches in a turn-based tactical RPG.
• Luminous Arc 2 (Nintendo DS, 2008, Atlus): Roland of the Rune Knights fights alongside witches in a turn-based tactical RPG.
• Lunar Knights (Nintendo DS, 2007, Konami): Vampire hunters Lucian and Aaron fight the undead with darkness and sunlight in an action RPG from Kojima Productions.
• Magical Starsign (Nintendo DS, 2006, Nintendo): Students of a magic academy fly across the solar system to find their missing teacher, with spells that wax and wane with the planets.
• Mario Hoops 3-on-3 (Nintendo DS, 2006, Nintendo): Mario, Final Fantasy guests and friends play three-on-three street basketball, dribbling, passing and shooting with taps and swipes of the stylus.
• Mario Kart DS (Nintendo DS, 2005, Nintendo): Mario and friends race through new courses and favorites from earlier games, with items, a mission mode and balloon battles.
• Mario Party DS (Nintendo DS, 2007, Nintendo): Shrunk by Bowser, Mario and friends race across five boards full of traps, with dozens of touch-screen mini-games along the way.
• Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Mini-Land Mayhem! (Nintendo DS, 2010, Nintendo): Donkey Kong carries off Pauline, and you steer marching Mini Mario toys to the exit by drawing girders, belts and springs into place.
• Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2: March of the Minis (Nintendo DS, 2006, Nintendo): Guide wind-up Mini Mario toys through puzzle rooms with the stylus to reach Donkey Kong, who has run off with Pauline.
• Mega Man Battle Network 5: Double Team DS (Nintendo DS, 2007, Capcom): Lan and MegaMan.EXE lead both Team Protoman and Team Colonel against Nebula's net criminals, with real-time chip battles on a grid.
• Mega Man ZX (Nintendo DS, 2006, Capcom): Vent or Aile merges with living Biometals to transform into armored forms, exploring a connected world two centuries after Mega Man Zero.
• Mega Man ZX Advent (Nintendo DS, 2007, Capcom): Grey or Ashe copies the forms of defeated bosses to become them, in the sequel to Mega Man ZX.
• Mega Man Zero Collection (Nintendo DS, 2010, Capcom): All four Game Boy Advance Mega Man Zero games on one cartridge, with Zero slashing through Neo Arcadia, plus an easier mode.
• Metal Slug 7 (Nintendo DS, 2008, Ignition Entertainment): The Peregrine Falcons take on the Future Rebel Army in side-scrolling shootouts full of tanks, hostages and explosions.
• Meteos (Nintendo DS, 2005, Nintendo): Line up three or more matching blocks to rocket them back into space, saving planets from the falling Meteos.
• Metroid Prime Hunters (Nintendo DS, 2006, Nintendo): Samus races six rival bounty hunters to the secret of the Alimbic Cluster in a first-person shooter aimed with the stylus.
• Metroid Prime Pinball (Nintendo DS, 2005, Nintendo): Samus rolls through Metroid Prime's worlds as a Morph Ball on pinball tables, fighting bosses and collecting artifacts.
• Monster Tale (Nintendo DS, 2011, Majesco Entertainment): Ellie and her monster friend Chomp explore a strange world together, with Chomp evolving on the touch screen as he learns new tricks.
• Moon (Nintendo DS, 2009, Mastiff): Major Kane discovers alien ruins on the Moon and fights through them in a first-person shooter.
• Mr. Driller: Drill Spirits (Nintendo DS, 2005, Namco): Susumu and friends drill down through colored blocks, racing their air supply, across new courses and modes.
• MySims (Nintendo DS, 2007, Electronic Arts): Bring a run-down town back to life by building furniture, fixing things up and helping its residents, in a cute Sims spin-off.
• Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer (Nintendo DS, 2008, Sega): Shiren and his talking weasel Koppa climb toward the legendary Golden Condor through dungeons that change on every visit.
• N+ (Nintendo DS, 2008, Atari): A ninja leaps through hundreds of single-screen rooms full of mines, lasers and robots in a physics-driven platformer.
• Namco Museum DS (Nintendo DS, 2007, Namco Bandai Games): Pac-Man, Galaga, Dig Dug, Galaxian, Xevious, Mappy, Dig Dug II and The Tower of Druaga in their arcade versions, plus Pac-Man Vs.
• Nanostray (Nintendo DS, 2005, Majesco Entertainment): A fast vertical shooter over three-dimensional landscapes, switching weapons on the touch screen.
• Nanostray 2 (Nintendo DS, 2008, Majesco Entertainment): Shin'en's shooter returns with new stages, weapons and challenge missions.
• Need for Speed: Most Wanted (Nintendo DS, 2005, Electronic Arts): Race your way up Rockport's blacklist of street racers, tuning cars and escaping police pursuits.
• New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo DS, 2006, Nintendo): Mario's first new side-scrolling adventure in years: chase Bowser Jr. across eight worlds with the Mega Mushroom, Blue Shell and Mini Mushroom.
• Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors (Nintendo DS, 2010, Aksys Games): Nine strangers trapped on a sinking ship have nine hours to escape through numbered doors, in a puzzle-filled visual novel with several endings.
• Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword (Nintendo DS, 2008, Tecmo): Ryu Hayabusa slashes demons with strokes of the stylus, holding the DS like a book, to rescue Momiji.
• Ninjatown (Nintendo DS, 2008, SouthPeak Games): Defend Ninjatown from Mr. Demon's army by placing huts that send out wee ninjas, in a tower-defense game.
• Nostalgia (Nintendo DS, 2009, Ignition Entertainment): Eddie searches for his missing adventurer father across a 19th-century world by airship, in a turn-based RPG.
• Ōkamiden (Nintendo DS, 2011, Capcom): Chibiterasu, the young wolf son of the sun goddess Amaterasu, paints brush techniques on the touch screen to save Nippon with a child partner.
• Pac-Pix (Nintendo DS, 2005, Namco): Draw Pac-Man with the stylus and he comes to life, gobbling the ghosts that escaped from a magic book.
• Peggle: Dual Shot (Nintendo DS, 2009, PopCap Games): Aim a ball and watch it bounce down through a field of pegs, clearing the orange ones with help from the Peggle Masters' powers.
• Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (Nintendo DS, 2005, Capcom): Rookie defense attorney Phoenix Wright investigates crime scenes and presses witnesses until he can shout "Objection!" and expose the real killer.
• Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Justice for All (Nintendo DS, 2007, Capcom): Phoenix returns for four new cases, breaking Psyche-Locks on witnesses' secrets and facing the prosecutor Franziska von Karma.
• Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations (Nintendo DS, 2007, Capcom): Phoenix's past catches up with him in five cases spanning years, closing the original trilogy.
• Picross 3D (Nintendo DS, 2010, Nintendo): Chip away blocks using number clues to reveal 3D objects hidden inside each puzzle, turning the shape with the stylus.
• Picross DS (Nintendo DS, 2007, Nintendo): Fill grids using number clues to reveal pixel pictures, in the picture-logic puzzle game played with the stylus.
• Planet Puzzle League (Nintendo DS, 2007, Nintendo): Swap panels with the stylus to line them up and chain combos in Panel de Pon, with the DS held sideways.
• Plants vs. Zombies (Nintendo DS, 2011, PopCap Games): Plant sunflowers, peashooters and wall-nuts to stop the zombies shambling across your lawn, lane by lane.
• Point Blank DS (Nintendo DS, 2006, Namco Bandai Games): Dozens of quick shooting-gallery challenges, hit with the stylus as fast and as accurately as you can.
• Pokémon Black (Nintendo DS, 2011, Nintendo): A new trainer crosses the Unova region with 156 new Pokémon, facing Team Plasma, who want people to free their Pokémon. The Black edition, with Reshiram.
• Pokémon Black 2 (Nintendo DS, 2012, Nintendo): Two years after Black and White, a new trainer explores a changed Unova as a revived Team Plasma plots to freeze it. The Black 2 edition.
• Pokémon Diamond (Nintendo DS, 2007, Nintendo): A young trainer travels the Sinnoh region, earning badges and foiling Team Galactic's plan to remake the world. The Diamond edition, with Dialga.
• Pokémon HeartGold (Nintendo DS, 2010, Nintendo): Pokémon Gold remade, with Johto and Kanto to explore and your lead Pokémon walking behind you everywhere. The HeartGold edition, with Ho-Oh.
• Pokémon Pearl (Nintendo DS, 2007, Nintendo): The Pearl edition of the Sinnoh adventure, with Palkia and its own Pokémon to catch and trade.
• Pokémon Platinum (Nintendo DS, 2009, Nintendo): The fullest Sinnoh adventure: Giratina and the Distortion World join a story reworked from Diamond and Pearl, with the Battle Frontier.
• Pokémon SoulSilver (Nintendo DS, 2010, Nintendo): Pokémon Silver remade, with Johto and Kanto and your lead Pokémon following you. The SoulSilver edition, with Lugia.
• Pokémon White (Nintendo DS, 2011, Nintendo): The White edition of the Unova adventure, with Zekrom and the White Forest.
• Pokémon White 2 (Nintendo DS, 2012, Nintendo): The White 2 edition of the return to Unova, with its own Pokémon to catch and trade.
• Pokémon Conquest (Nintendo DS, 2012, Nintendo): Warlords of the Ransei region team up with Pokémon in turn-based battles to unite its seventeen kingdoms.
• Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team (Nintendo DS, 2006, Nintendo): A human turned into a Pokémon joins a rescue team, exploring dungeons that change on every visit to help Pokémon in trouble.
• Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky (Nintendo DS, 2009, Nintendo): A human turned Pokémon joins an exploration guild and travels through time to stop the world from freezing, in the expanded Explorers adventure.
• Pokémon Ranger (Nintendo DS, 2006, Nintendo): A Pokémon Ranger befriends wild Pokémon by circling them with the stylus, borrowing their help to protect the Fiore region.
• Pokémon Ranger: Guardian Signs (Nintendo DS, 2010, Nintendo): A Ranger in the Oblivia region draws Guardian Signs to call on legendary Pokémon against the Pokémon Pinchers.
• Pokémon Ranger: Shadows of Almia (Nintendo DS, 2008, Nintendo): A new Ranger in the Almia region captures Pokémon with the Capture Styler to stop Team Dim Sun.
• Polarium (Nintendo DS, 2005, Nintendo): Draw one unbroken line through tiles to flip them between black and white, clearing every row in a stylus puzzle game.
• Professor Layton and the Curious Village (Nintendo DS, 2008, Nintendo): Professor Layton and his apprentice Luke look into a village's hidden inheritance, solving more than a hundred brain teasers along the way.
• Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box (Nintendo DS, 2009, Nintendo): Layton and Luke follow a box said to kill whoever opens it aboard the Molentary Express, puzzle by puzzle.
• Professor Layton and the Last Specter (Nintendo DS, 2012, Nintendo): Layton meets Luke for the first time as a specter terrorizes the town of Misthallery, in a prequel packed with puzzles.
• Professor Layton and the Unwound Future (Nintendo DS, 2010, Nintendo): A letter from Luke's future self leads Layton to a London ten years ahead, in a mystery with more than 160 puzzles.
• Puyo Pop Fever (Nintendo DS, 2005, Atlus): Drop pairs of colored Puyo and pop groups of four to set off chains, with Fever mode raining ready-made combos.
• Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords (Nintendo DS, 2007, D3 Publisher): A fantasy RPG fought by matching gems: lines of three deal damage, earn mana and win gold across the land of Etheria.
• Puzzle Quest: Galactrix (Nintendo DS, 2009, D3 Publisher): Puzzle Quest in space: hack jump gates, mine asteroids and fight starship battles by matching gems on a hexagonal board.
• Radiant Historia (Nintendo DS, 2011, Atlus): Agent Stocke moves between two timelines with the White Chronicle to rewrite history and save a world turning to sand.
• Resident Evil: Deadly Silence (Nintendo DS, 2006, Capcom): The original Resident Evil on the DS: Jill and Chris search the Spencer mansion, with touch-screen knife fights and a reworked Rebirth mode.
• Retro Game Challenge (Nintendo DS, 2009, Xseed Games): Game Master Arino sends you back to the 1980s to beat his challenges in eight brand-new games made to look like 8-bit classics.
• Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure (Nintendo DS, 2008, NIS America): Cornet and her puppet friend Kururu set out to rescue a prince, in an RPG where the cast breaks into song.
• Rhythm Heaven (Nintendo DS, 2009, Nintendo): Tap and flick to the beat across dozens of quirky rhythm games, from fan clubs to samurai, with music by Tsunku.
• Ridge Racer DS (Nintendo DS, 2004, Namco): Namco's arcade racer on the DS: drift through classic Ridge Racer courses, steering with the D-pad or the stylus.
• The Rub Rabbits! (Nintendo DS, 2005, Sega): A boy chases the girl of his dreams through stylus mini-games, rubbing, tapping and blowing his way to her heart.
• Rune Factory: A Fantasy Harvest Moon (Nintendo DS, 2007, Natsume): An amnesiac farmer tends crops in Kardia, tames monsters in its dungeons and finds romance, in a Harvest Moon with sword fights.
• Rune Factory 2: A Fantasy Harvest Moon (Nintendo DS, 2008, Natsume): A farmer settles in Alvarna and starts a family, then his child takes over the story, the farm and the dungeons.
• Rune Factory 3: A Fantasy Harvest Moon (Nintendo DS, 2010, Natsume): Micah, half human and half Wooly monster, farms, fights and makes friends in the village of Sharance.
• Sega Superstars Tennis (Nintendo DS, 2008, Sega): Sonic, AiAi, Ulala and other Sega stars play tennis on courts themed on Sega classics.
• SNK vs. Capcom: Card Fighters DS (Nintendo DS, 2007, SNK Playmore): Build decks of SNK and Capcom characters and battle with them, in the DS sequel to the Neo Geo Pocket card game.
• Scribblenauts (Nintendo DS, 2009, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment): Maxwell summons any object you write, from a ladder to a dragon, to solve each puzzle and collect the Starite.
• Scurge: Hive (Nintendo DS, 2006, SouthPeak Games): Bounty hunter Jenosa Arma fights through an infested research station before the Scurge infection takes her over.
• Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor (Nintendo DS, 2009, Atlus): Locked inside a demon-infested Tokyo for seven days, a group of teens fights back with demons summoned on their COMPs, in a tactical RPG.
• Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 2 (Nintendo DS, 2012, Atlus): Invaders called Septentriones strike Japan, and students with a demon-summoning app have seven days to save it.
• Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey (Nintendo DS, 2010, Atlus): A team of soldiers and scientists investigates the Schwarzwelt, a void spreading over Antarctica, in a first-person dungeon crawler of demon negotiation.
• SimCity DS (Nintendo DS, 2007, Electronic Arts): Zone homes, shops and factories, lay roads and power lines and keep the budget balanced as your city grows on two screens.
• Solatorobo: Red the Hunter (Nintendo DS, 2011, Xseed Games): Hunter Red Savarin pilots his robot Dahak across floating islands, lifting and throwing enemies in an action adventure.
• Sonic Classic Collection (Nintendo DS, 2010, Sega): The Genesis Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic 2, Sonic 3 and Sonic & Knuckles on one cartridge.
• Sonic Rush (Nintendo DS, 2005, Sega): Sonic and newcomer Blaze the Cat boost and trick their way across both screens in a fast 2D adventure.
• Sonic Rush Adventure (Nintendo DS, 2007, Sega): Sonic and Tails wash up in Blaze's world and sail between islands in boats they build, racing through stages full of boosts.
• Soul Bubbles (Nintendo DS, 2008, Eidos Interactive): A young shaman blows bubbles carrying lost souls through strange worlds, shaping and splitting them with the stylus.
• Space Invaders Extreme (Nintendo DS, 2008, Square Enix): Space Invaders remixed with flashing lights, power-ups, combos and a pulsing soundtrack.
• Space Invaders Extreme 2 (Nintendo DS, 2009, Square Enix): The remixed Space Invaders returns with new stages, power-ups and bonus games.
• Spectrobes (Nintendo DS, 2007, Disney Interactive Studios): Rallen and Jeena dig up and awaken ancient creatures called Spectrobes to fight the Krawl across the Nanairo planets.
• Spectrobes: Beyond the Portals (Nintendo DS, 2008, Disney Interactive Studios): Rallen and Jeena follow the Krawl through portals into new star systems, excavating and evolving more Spectrobes.
• Star Fox Command (Nintendo DS, 2006, Nintendo): Fox McCloud leads the Star Fox team against the Anglar invasion, drawing flight paths on a strategy map before each dogfight.
• Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron (Nintendo DS, 2009, LucasArts): A clone trooper fights in ground and space battles from the Clone Wars to the Galactic Civil War.
• Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (Nintendo DS, 2005, Ubisoft): Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi fight through the film's battles with lightsabers and the Force, with space combat on the side.
• Style Savvy (Nintendo DS, 2009, Nintendo): Run your own fashion boutique: dress customers, buy stock from the brands and enter fashion contests.
• Suikoden Tierkreis (Nintendo DS, 2009, Konami): A young hero gathers 108 Stars of Destiny against the Order of the One True Way, which is erasing worlds across the infinite gates.
• Super Mario 64 DS (Nintendo DS, 2004, Nintendo): The Nintendo 64 classic remade: Yoshi, Mario, Luigi and Wario each explore Peach's castle and its paintings, with new stars and mini-games.
• Super Princess Peach (Nintendo DS, 2006, Nintendo): Princess Peach rescues Mario and Luigi from Bowser, using her moods (joy, gloom, rage and calm) as powers.
• Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: Endless Frontier (Nintendo DS, 2009, Atlus): Haken Browning and a band of mismatched heroes cross the Endless Frontier in an RPG of flashy combo attacks.
• Super Scribblenauts (Nintendo DS, 2010, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment): Maxwell can now summon objects with adjectives, like a giant flying pink rhino, to solve every puzzle.
• Tetris DS (Nintendo DS, 2006, Nintendo): Tetris with modes themed on Nintendo classics, from Super Mario Bros. to Metroid, plus Push and Touch modes.
• Tetris Party Deluxe (Nintendo DS, 2010, Hudson Soft): Classic Tetris and a dozen new modes, from Stage Racer to Shadow, with touch-screen stages.
• Time Hollow (Nintendo DS, 2008, Konami): Ethan Kairos uses the Hollow Pen to cut holes in time and change the past after his parents vanish.
• Tony Hawk's American Sk8land (Nintendo DS, 2005, Activision): Skate across America in cel-shaded 3D, linking tricks into combos and building up your skater's reputation.
• Touch Detective (Nintendo DS, 2006, Atlus): Girl detective Mackenzie pokes, prods and touches everything in her strange town to crack cases, with her pet fungus Funghi.
• Touch Detective 2 ½ (Nintendo DS, 2007, Atlus): Mackenzie and Funghi take on new cases in their odd little town, solved by touching everything in sight.
• TouchMaster (Nintendo DS, 2007, Midway): Twenty-three bar-top touch-screen games, from trivia and solitaire to word and puzzle games.
• Trace Memory (Nintendo DS, 2005, Nintendo): Ashley Robbins comes to Blood Edward Island to find her long-lost father, helped by the ghost of a boy who lost his memories.
• TrackMania DS (Nintendo DS, 2008, Atlus): Race stunt tracks full of loops and jumps against the clock, and build your own with the track editor.
• Trauma Center: Under the Knife (Nintendo DS, 2005, Atlus): Surgeon Derek Stiles operates with the stylus, cutting, suturing and fighting the man-made disease GUILT with his Healing Touch.
• Trauma Center: Under the Knife 2 (Nintendo DS, 2008, Atlus): Derek Stiles returns to battle the GUILT disease again, with new operations performed with the stylus.
• True Swing Golf (Nintendo DS, 2006, Nintendo): Swing the club by drawing your stroke on the touch screen, on courses around the world.
• Ultimate Mortal Kombat (Nintendo DS, 2007, Midway): Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 on the DS, plus Puzzle Kombat, with Kitana, Sub-Zero, Scorpion and the cast in their classic arcade form.
• Ultimate Spider-Man (Nintendo DS, 2005, Activision): Spider-Man and Venom fight through Ultimate Marvel's New York in a side-scrolling brawler.
• The Urbz: Sims in the City (Nintendo DS, 2004, Electronic Arts): A newcomer to Miniopolis takes jobs, makes friends and rises through the city's social scenes in a Sims adventure.
• Valkyrie Profile: Covenant of the Plume (Nintendo DS, 2009, Square Enix): Wylfred makes a pact with the goddess Hel to avenge his father, sacrificing his own allies for power in tactical battles.
• Viewtiful Joe: Double Trouble! (Nintendo DS, 2005, Capcom): Joe fights through a movie gone wrong, sliding, splitting and shaking the screen with the stylus to solve puzzles and beat enemies.
• Viva Piñata: Pocket Paradise (Nintendo DS, 2008, THQ): Grow a garden on Piñata Island that attracts wild piñatas, taming them, helping them romance and keeping out the sour ones.
• Wario: Master of Disguise (Nintendo DS, 2007, Nintendo): Wario jumps into a TV show and draws disguises on the touch screen, each with its own powers, to steal the treasure of a thief.
• WarioWare: D.I.Y. (Nintendo DS, 2010, Nintendo): Play rapid-fire microgames, then make your own with tools for drawing, music and logic.
• WarioWare: Touched! (Nintendo DS, 2005, Nintendo): Five-second microgames played with taps, swipes, rubs and the microphone, from Wario and his friends.
• The World Ends with You (Nintendo DS, 2008, Square Enix): Neku wakes in Shibuya as a player in the Reapers' Game, fighting on two screens at once with partners and pins.
• Worms: Open Warfare (Nintendo DS, 2006, THQ): Teams of worms take turns lobbing bazookas, grenades and sheep across destructible landscapes.
• Worms: Open Warfare 2 (Nintendo DS, 2007, THQ): More worm warfare, with new weapons, a level editor and a single-player campaign.
• Yoshi's Island DS (Nintendo DS, 2006, Nintendo): Yoshi carries Baby Mario, Peach, DK, Wario and Bowser across islands, each baby giving him a new ability, to rescue the stolen children.
• Yu-Gi-Oh! Nightmare Troubadour (Nintendo DS, 2005, Konami): Duel your way through Domino City with a deck built from more than a thousand cards, under the anime's rules.
• Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's Stardust Accelerator: World Championship 2009 (Nintendo DS, 2009, Konami): Duel on a riding duel runner through New Domino City, with thousands of cards and Turbo Duels from the 5D's anime.
• Zoo Keeper (Nintendo DS, 2004, Ignition Entertainment): Swap animals with the stylus to line up three in a row and catch them before time runs out.

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