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I’ve just come back from some holiday travel. Felt good to get out, but of course I’m happy to be home now…airports and plane rides really wear me down. Not sure what happens, exactly — I just get kind of burnt out. On everything. Can’t even play a game. My Sony PlayStation Portable pulled movie duty the whole way to and from Salt Lake. And the Nintendo DS didn’t even leave its case.

Which isn’t to say I don’t use those systems; each of them runs some great games. But both are (at least presumably) designed for journeying. So why is it I’m not using them when I’ve got to travel someplace?

Over the course of my trip, I saw one PSP and maybe six or eight DSes. Most of the Nintendo machines appeared to be running Sudoku in some form or fashion. The PSP looked brand new, and the guy who owned it was presumably just tinkering, though he did have a copy of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed sitting unopened beside him.

All of this left me wondering where we do our handheld gaming. In thinking back, I’d have to say that most of mine takes place just before bedtime, and even then only sporadically. So what I want to know is:

• Do you own a portable gaming system?
• If so, when and where do you play it?
• Are games its primary application, or do you generally use it as a mobile internet device, portable media player, telephone, or the like?

Tags: Delta, Salt Lake City, Utah, UT, SLC, Star Wars, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, The Force Unleashed, Star Wars: TFU, TFU, Krome Studios

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