The title to this post has been in the draft folder since Wednesday of last week. I have passionately wished for the time to voice (quite loudly) a few shortcomings in the digital world. I consider myself to quite conservative when it comes to purchasing new technology. I tend to say oooh and ahh like the rest of the world when some new tech-toy greets the world market. I do not camp outside of stores to be the first person to own something white with an '' i' in the front of it. I am also not chomping at the bit to go and purchase a new television so I can don dorky glasses and have things jump out at me. Nevertheless, I do know way too much about the plugs on the back of my televisions. I also realize that not being able to navigate some of these toys will be detrimental to my child. We live in an age where everything is on the Internet, and to NOT be savvy, leads our peers to rating our intelligence on our pocketbooks, not on actual brains. Where this philosophy of one must own or one is ignorant mystifies me, and I can only fight the machine so much. So, here I am, mother of one. Owner of Nintendo, two short years ago. Yes, I grew up without any video game in my life. Did I want one? Of course. When opportunity arose, eating was more important. I digress.
My daughter has faced the computer age stoically, and only school has made her branch out to want to play with anything other than the TV itself. That said, this year, she went from zero to wanting the whole enchilada. I've had to take my phone away and remind her we have a land line. She went from hitting buttons on the Nintendo DS XL to really playing with it, and using some of the features I had no use for like the recorder. I feel I have to put in this background before I launch my reasoning that lies behind the title of this entry.
I was at a loss to find my child another gift for her birthday other than the record player, and the answer came to me via email from Gamestop. Oh happy day! Finally Nintendo decided to make the screen on the 3DS the size of the DS XL! What this means: A handheld game larger than my Smart phone, and easy to see. I knew I just had to wait. I liked Nintendo for this simple fact: There are not a bunch of buttons. I know there are lots of systems out there, but when you have a kid playing with it, the more buttons there are, the harder it is to explain. You also have to factor in parents that did not grow up with video games. I will also insert here that we own a Nintendo wii and to my frustration and disappointment, my child has not been enthralled. Moving on.
Gamestop is nifty in that one can buy and trade their games. So being a member, I boxed up both my own 3DS and the DSXL, a bunch of accessories and games my daughter has outgrown. I managed to use member benefits and current sales to purchase two new 3DS XL systems. I was so excited to have two handheld systems that she could play with me and her friends. I assumed when I reminded the Gamestop employee that I needed the SD cards from the old systems that putting my DSiware purchased from the eShop in gaming system I would be able to redownload my software. I assumed it would be like buying a new phone and moving my information from one to the other would be no problem. I was so wrong.
A little voice inside me said, open the new system and set it up, so my daughter could just hug me and go in her room and play. I am so glad I listen to the little voice. Here is where the drama begins. I will continue this in another post.
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