its simple, its nintendo

since my father was a sailor, and travelled the world, he always came home with things long before they they were common in norway. one day, in the early 80s, my father came home with the "game & watch, parachute". then hours became minutes. during the course of that decade, i got more of them. i think that at some point i had about five different ones. unfortunately, they are now all gone. (ref. previous post: "searching for time")



two week ago i bought the nintendo ds lite. to my surprise and absolute joy, it looked exactly the same as it did 25 years ago. they had not filled it to the rafters with an mp3 player, a movie player or a internet hook-up. it could not be used as a camera or a phone. it was still what it started out as - a fun, simple and easy game console. nothing more. nothing less. its industrial design at its finest. it even had the alarmclock.



pictures from game&watch and myself.