{"id":542,"date":"2006-04-29T15:54:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-29T19:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=542"},"modified":"2006-04-29T15:54:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-29T19:54:00","slug":"further-adventures-of-alex-in-ds-wonderland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=542","title":{"rendered":"Further Adventures of Alex in DS Wonderland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/6250\/621\/1600\/ds.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/6250\/621\/320\/ds.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So far, I&#8217;ve tried most of the features of the DS once each.  I&#8217;ve used the touch-pad.  I&#8217;ve played a match of Mario Kart online.  I&#8217;ve played it against a friend locally.  I&#8217;ve played a multiplayer match with a single cartridge.  After today, there&#8217;s only a few left.<\/p>\n<p>Swung by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamecrazy.com\/\">Gamecrazy<\/a>, a walled-off subset of Hollywood Video that serves as a mini game store.  I went there in search of a DS Download Station, a place alleged to give me the power and authority to download a demo through the very air.  A huge young fellow with the pasty complexion, soul patch, and horn-rimmed glasses stereotypical of gamers informed me that there was no <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">station<\/span>, per se, no glossy plastic box to point my DS at, but rather the entire store would yield a positive result.  He entreated me to &#8220;download away&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I complied.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendo.com\/gamemini?gameid=1fcbd7dd-a277-4134-b38e-b7e542999ac8\">True Swing Golf<\/a>.  Decent game, but it&#8217;s no Tiger Woods.  Either way, the Download Station idea is a valid one.  It combines the wireless tech and community feeling that Nintendo are clearly focusing on in a simple way.  And considering what a cheapass I am, I&#8217;m sure to be using it quite often.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So far, I&#8217;ve tried most of the features of the DS once each. I&#8217;ve used the touch-pad. I&#8217;ve played a match of Mario Kart online. I&#8217;ve played it against a friend locally. I&#8217;ve played a multiplayer match with a single cartridge. After today, there&#8217;s only a few left. Swung by Gamecrazy, a walled-off subset of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}