This chapter is nothing but a nostalgia rush so skip if you don't care

So if you're a zoom zoom kid you probably grew up playing on Nintendo DSi's and then the 3DS.

I distinctly remember when I was around 9 begging my parents for one and lo and behold chrissmiss morning came and I got a DS.

I played cooking mama on that thing until 3 am that day
and then I lost the stylus three days later

I played on that thing for three years until I lost forever it when we moved to another house

Or so I thought
My ds was certainly lost forever to the abyss

But my brother's ds lite was not truly lost
You see my brother went through three DS's during the time we played on them.

One of them was from irreversible water damage and the other was because he had dropped it against a stone stair and permanently broke the screen

So when my dad got my brother the third and final DS (which happened to be the newer model lite version) he told both of us never to take the DS outside of the house which sucked because we all know that we used those to send memos to our edgy kids in class instead of doing the old fashioned passing notes

We played a bunch of games other than cooking mama. My brother had a lego Harry Potter game. He was really into LEGO and I was really into Harry Potter so it was the game that both of us frequently fought over. We also had one more game which was the Mario and sonic winter Olympic Games thing. I don't actually remember the name but that is kinda what it was.

And that was it. We never had a huge collection of games probably because both of us sucked at playing video games and so we never complained for more while we tried as hard as we could to complete the games we had.

Anyway how did I find the lost DS lite from our childhood? Well my mom told me to go clean out the attic one day around three months ago and in a nasty cardboard musky box in the far corner I found a box full of old tech. Like really old late 90s early 2000s tech. I'm talking floppy disks and mice with the orb at the bottom before the USB cable became a thing.
I also found my dad's old green card from like 1999. I have no idea how it got there but that's also the reason why my mom told me to clean it up.

The DS was lying in the bottom of the pile of old tech and my first instinct was to drop what I was doing and play on it as you do. But the DS was obviously dead and I couldn't turn it on and I turned it around and to my utter shock and glee I found the old LEGO Harry Potter game that we always fought over was still on game slot!