We decided a while back to buy Nintendo DSi for our six year old boy and twelve year old girl for them to play in the car. We like to drive around to different places whenever they get a break from school. Our goal is to make it to every single state, so we spend quite a bit of time in the car. We only read onereview before we bought, and we didn’t realize that the kids could get on the internet through the system. So one day, the kids are acting really bored in the car, and we find out that it’s because they are tired of the games that they already have to play on the game system. We’re talking about driving around town looking for where to buy Nintendo DSi games, and the older one pipes up and tells us that they can go to the DSi shop and download games. That was what really convinced us that we’d bought the right video game system.
A reason we decided to buy a DSi instead of one of the other game systems we say was because of the digital camera built right into the game console. A camera is one of the handiest things you can have when you spend us much time on the road as we do. The kids can take pictures of anything they see that they think is interesting, and they both have travel scrapbooks that they are working on. After we get back from one of our trips, we stop by the store and use the little SD memory cards to get the pictures printed up so they can put them into the scrapbooks. They really like the ongoing project. My daughter has already pre- made pages of her scrapbook, she’s got one page for every state. She’s excited about filling it up. My younger one, he just kind of does a page for every trip that we take. I really didn’t see a device like the Nintendo DSi being that big of a help on a project like that, but we’re glad it worked out that way. The kids like it too.
The Nintendo DSi system also has a music player in it, which my daughter uses a lot more often than my son. I guess my daughter is old enough to not want to listen to the music my wife and I listen to on the car stereo. It’s been real handy for her to be able to bring her own music in the car- sometimes she’ll do that instead of playing games. My son doesn’t though. He loves his Mario Kart game for road trips because he gets to drive while Mom or Dad is driving. With everything put together, we are very glad we decided to buy Nintendo DSi for the kids. That particular purchase bought us a lot of quiet hours in the car that might otherwise have been spent bickering and asking if we were there yet.
Mike in Memphis, TN
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