Nintendo DS

"Nintendo DS" is a title based upon conjecture.

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Nintendo DS
Type:	Game console
First mentioned in:	The Last Sontaran [+]Loading...["The Last Sontaran (novelisation)"]
Appearance:	Children of Earth: Day Three [+]Loading...["Children of Earth: Day Three (TV story)"]

The DS was a game console. (PROSE: The Last Sontaran ^[+]Loading...["The Last Sontaran (novelisation)"]) It was handheld, with two screens and a stylus. (TV: Children of Earth: Day Three ^[+]Loading...["Children of Earth: Day Three (TV story)"])

History

Rani Chandra owned a DS in 2009. Rani was not a big gamer and used the console for "casual games". Amongst the games that she owned were a "cute cooking simulator", a "very unrealistic law simulator", and a game about looking after pets. (PROSE: The Last Sontaran ^[+]Loading...["The Last Sontaran (novelisation)"])

Lilly and Holly Frobisher owned two consoles. Lilly's console was white, and Holly's was pink. They used the consoles during Prime Minister Brian Green's speech announcing the closing of schools and a curfew for those under the age of eighteen. (TV: Children of Earth: Day Three ^[+]Loading...["Children of Earth: Day Three (TV story)"])

Behind the scenes

While not named in full in PROSE: The Last Sontaran ^[+]Loading...["The Last Sontaran (novelisation)"], the Nintendo DS was a handheld, cartridge-based game system released by Nintendo in 2004, with different models continuing to be made more than a decade later. Two models briefly appeared in TV: Children of Earth: Day Three ^[+]Loading...["Children of Earth: Day Three (TV story)"], but were unnamed in the story.

The video games, Top Trumps: Doctor Who ^[+]Loading...["Top Trumps: Doctor Who (video game)"], and Evacuation Earth ^[+]Loading...["Evacuation Earth (video game)"], were released for the Nintendo DS.