I have joined what I might assume is a reasonably large group of people who went out and purchased the Nintendo DS shortly after it was released. Then, after playing with it for a while thought "Gee, this is really cool, now if there was only a cool game (that didn't come out eight years ago) to play with it". Then the Sony PSP was released, which came out with not one, but several cool games to play. So I put my Nintendo DS aside, and went out and picked up a Sony PSP, which came with Spiderman 2 (the movie) & Gretzky NHL (hockey game), I dutifully picked up Lumines& Twisted Metal Head On at the same time. Having been a Nintendo DS owner for the past few weeks, let me say, owning a portable console that has fun games to play right now (rather than six months from now) is pretty cool. I've watched the first minute or so of Spiderman 2, and the LCD screen is awesome, great colour and detail, decent sound from the speakers as well.


To speak to the games I've got. I haven't played Gretzky yet, I'm not a big hockey game fan, so it will probably stay on the bench until a friend comes over who wants to give it a try. Twisted Metal Head On is good, I'm still trying to get used to the controls, but I loved Twisted Metal Black, so I have high expectations for this one. Lumines, ahh Lumines, where exactly to start with this one. Simply put Lumines is the new Tetris (or, if you are younger than I, how about Lumines is the new Snood), but with a better sound track. It's a fast paced piece dropping from the top of the screen game. Every piece that drops from the top of the screen is square, and contains four blocks. The goal is to match four blocks of the same colour together in a 2x2 square. Here is a screenshot from the Sony website, I won't embarrass myself trying to take a picture of the PSP with my digital camera.




So, if you're going out to buy a portable console, and want to play fun games now (or watch movies, or listen to music, or do slideshows of your digital pictures), go buy the PSP. If you are more of a forward thinker, and happen to be attached (as I am) to several of the upcoming DS titles buy a DS. Or you know, just blow a stupid amount of money like I did, and get both (just get them from Amazon, and do it from a link on this page okay ).