Eheh, I bought one (the V.Smile Pocket), just to play a Care Bears game that I imported from Australia

It's an okay console, impressive how the games on it have more speech than all the DS games I have played to date (although Rock and Roll Racing for the GBA came quite close), but controls is a bit frustrating since movement is quite slow and you can only jump in place (dunno if this is only true for the Care Bears game and the Noddy game I have) and cannot jump forward. The Pocket version also come with outdated Passive Matrix LCD, ghosting and interference quite noticable.

One thing good about the V.Smile, tho, is that it has no region lock.

Either way, DS is also a good choice, if they know how to jaga the console (I notice that my NDSL's hinge is quite fragile). I also agree that the DS also have a fine choice of educational games (i.e. Sudoku, Tetris, etc). If can, get original DS. NDSL quite fragile.

This post has been edited by RAMChYLD: Oct 14 2008, 03:51 PM