When does your portable become a one-game dedicated machine?

[boagman]

So my PSP does get a whole bunch of use from me. I probably have somewhere around 15 or so UMDs for the system, and no downloads or anything pirated or anything like that. I take the machine with me everywhere, but don't necessarily play it everywhere. Several times a week, though, I go to the gym and when I'm doing my cardio on the bike, out it comes with the headphones.

There really is a limited number of games you can play whilst working out like that. The controls need to be relatively simple in order to maintain some kind of semblance of fairness to me. As much as I love UG&G or, say Metal Slug 7 on the DS, both of those games require the use of several buttons on their respective machine for responsive play, and using multiple buttons while moving that much just isn't necessarily feasible.

As a result, I play an absolute stinking *ton* of Every Extend Extra, which really only needs one button to be played with, and *all* the primary buttons are used for the same function. It doesn't hurt that I absolutely love this game, top to bottom. Still, though, it's been a good, long time (maybe over a year?) since I actually took the UMD out and played one of the different games I own. I literally have games still in their shrinkwrap that I haven't even opened because, well...I just haven't.

The question: at what point does a portable system just become a one-game dedicated machine?

[DC906270]

id say its an impossibility to play every extend while riding a bike and getting a decent workout, unless youre riding really slow

[Elixir]

When Disgaea gets released for it.

[BryanM]

When Disgaea gets released for it.

Negative 2 years?!

[boagman]

id say its an impossibility to play every extend while riding a bike and getting a decent workout, unless youre riding really slow

You'd be wrong. It's a stationary bike, and I do a 45 minute workout that doubles my heart rate and leaves me sopped with sweat when I'm done. If anything, playing the game while I'm biking makes me go at it harder. Probably the intensity, or maybe just the rhythm of the tunes. Either way, it helps.

I'll be the first to admit that it's an easier workout than, say, the Alien Walker (or whatever that machine is called), but my headphones aren't long enough to listen to the television on that, and I need some kind of distraction.

[handsome_rakshas]

When you can play Rondo on it. RONDO.

[EinhanderZwei]

When you can play Rondo on it. RONDO.

...Of Blood?

My PSP was the 'thingy I can play Phantasy Star Portable on' for three months, oh yeah

[sjewkestheloon]

Pretty much Star Ocean 2 player at the moment, but I will be changing it out when I've cleared the bonus stuff and got a full 255 party.

I was hoping that it would be a FFT player but so far the game is dull dull dull and I can't get the motivation up to grind the first chapter out of the way and unlock some jobs that make the game less predictable and cumbersome.

[xris]

I got my DS to play castlevania, but got lucky to get three games in the series. Order of Ecclesia is dope. That's been pretty much it for my DS. Once I got Twinbee, it stayed in my psp.

[mesh control]

Pokemon.

[null1024]

Pokemon.

This.
Haven't taken Platinum out of my DS since I got it about a month and a half ago, and before I got it, Sonic Rush never left my DS. And Gold's also the only game I have left for my GBC.

[Damocles]

When PHOF: Williams came out. It essentially became a one-table pinball simulator since I only played Pin*Bot.

[UnscathedFlyingObject]

My SNES was an almost dedicated Mega Man X machine. Pretty much 9 out of 10 times I was playing either MMX or MMX2. Other times, it was some fighting game.

[iatneH]

For a time I was thinking of hacking a PSP into a panel with rectangular LED buttons, to become a dedicated tabletop DJMax Portable machine. Never happened, but that would be as nearly dedicated as it could get, I think. Not really dedicated since it would still play DJMax Portable 2, Clazziquai, Black Square etc.

[Vexorg]

When Disgaea gets released for it.

Agreed. I've got hundreds of hours into Disgaea and Disgaea 2, and probably less than 10 hours of anything else on the PSP.

[SockPuppetHyren]

When I was playing Legend of Zelda: Links Awakening. It's been years since I played it, and I still think it's one of the best Zelda game period.

[Jon]

My old GBC plays Tetris DX exclusively.