Uploaded May 2019 | Updated September 2026, 42 minutes ago

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Thanks to an Extra Life donor, Five Reasons is back! And this time, Roger is looking at Nintendo's biggest portable success, the DS! Five great games that never left the platform!

Game footage captured off-screen on a 2DS XL running the games in their original pixel ratio, with audio running line-out to the camera.

SNDG, OOG and Five Reasons are all 100% funded by Patreon! Get early access to new episodes and help the shows: patreon.com/samenamedifferentgame
Theme song "Crash Course" by Dya: dyamusic.bandcamp.com
Five Reasons logo by youtube.com/gryedor
Japanese DS promo reel archived by SecretMischief on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=5RhN2Z8eR_Q
System photos courtesy of the Vanamo Online Game Museum: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Evan-Amos
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