Nintendo DS US Box Art
The full archive of completed, final boxes for Nintendo's launch line-up. All in glorious high resolution.
April 13, 2005 - The Nintendo DS is out, and the games are starting to trickle into availability in 2005 and beyond.
Officially, 11 games shipped between the system's launch day and the end of the year. Among them, Nintendo's own
Super Mario 64 DS, with the rest of the pile from third party publishers including Activision, Electronic Arts, Namco, Sega, THQ, and Ubisoft.
The Nintendo DS games break away from the Game Boy Advance market by shipping in DVD-like shell cases, similar to what N-Gage games come packaged in. This definitely makes the games far more "storeable" than Game Boy games could ever dream of being, since those crappy cardboard boxes tend to "squash" simply by the force of gravity pressing down on them. The cases have a slot for the DS games, as well as a bay for any stray Game Boy Advance cartridge.
Similar to what we did in 2001 with the Game Boy Advance, we've done the legwork and scored all of the package artwork of each of the games in the Nintendo DS' current library,
all in high resolution. Click on any of the packages below to see a much larger, sharper view of the artwork that will be used for the game in question.
This story will be updated as long as we can stand it. If the Nintendo DS ends up getting two bazillion games a year like the GBA did, we'll quietly retire the feature since it's next to impossible to keep track of random games like
Barbie's Homeland Security Budget Organizer.
