Must've been either Pokémon Platinum or Pokémon SoulSilver.

Nintendogs & Cats was 3DS... that couldn't have possibly been the game you got with a classic silver DS. >.>

I think there's some versions of Nintendogs and Nintencats for DS Lite. Not together, but separately.

3DS was the first time cats appeared in the franchise. The DS ones were only dogs.

Yeah, Nintendogs was the first one I got. That was on the DS Phat, the big silver one. No cats in that one! Lol, all that time spent speaking commands into that microphone and looking like a total dork. XD I think WarioWare: Touched! was the next one I got after that. Ah, good times. :D

Huh, odd to see several DS threads in the games forum. I guess there's a bunch of DS fans here? Hooray! My people!! =D

I bought my 3DS specifically so I could play Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Before that I was on the original Game Boy (the old clunky gray one) and playing tons of games...including that Mario game shown on page one. Another favorite of mine was Kwirk. I guess I'm in the 'old' category too? Maybe? lol Now I really want to go pull out my old one and play some classics. Just need to dig up 4 AA batteries...>.>

I can't find my gray-brick Game Boy. :( At least I still have a GBA SP, so I can still play all of my classic Game Boy games -- with one exception: Kirby's Tilt and Tumble. The GBA SP cartridge slot is upside-down so the tilt sensors are oriented wrong.

I have two old ones, but I can only find one at the moment. It's amazing that they work after so many years. I think my dad has a Game Boy Advance, since I remember playing Pokemon Yellow and having a bit of color at one point.

Yoshis island, I miss it. ;C Got lost during moving.

Pokemon Diamond or Animal Crossing: Wild World. Those were the DS games I was most excited for when I finally upgraded from Gameboy Advance SP to Nintendo DS.

My first DS was the 3DS XL and I still have it. I got it in 2015 on my birthday. And I have always wanted a DS since I was a kid but never got one. By my freshman year of college, I got one lol. My brother gave me his DS games and my first was Ocarina of Time. I feel such a newb in this but it's my first DS game I played lol.

Pokemon Mystery Dungeons: Explorers of Time
on a DS Lite. Never really played any other game..Oh, I played Kirby (minigames, adventure galore. I dunno what the version was called) and Starfy. And that's it xD

Animal crossing and Story of Seasons for the 3ds
I got it late 2014 I think?

Oh gosh... I got my DS in the fall of 2007 and when I bought it, I also picked up Animal Crossing: Wild World, Pokemon Diamond (or Platinum, I ALWAYS forget which one it is), Spectrobes 2, and one other game that I can't remember right now. It was the first game system I ever bought new.

Kirby Squeak Squad
 

My first game was Kirby Squeak Squad. I got it for christmas along with my first DS lite (which I still have). I liked it so much that I beat the game twice rather than once!

BTW, I also had a Megaman Star Force game and I wished for a sequel, but didn't get it because I couldn't find Mr.Boreal's old boss until last year. If it wasn't for the online guides, then I wouldn't have beaten that tough final boss by now. ;)

A similar event happened to pokemon Diamond, in which I couldn't find the TM for Defog until also last year. After that, I beat the Elite Four a couple weeks later with a Torterria, a Rapidash, a Crobat, a Staraptor, a Luxray, and a Gastrodon!

The first games I ever played on console were Super Mario Land and Kirby's Dreamland. Of course this was way back in the '90s and I didn't even own a gameboy, just borrowed from a friend. First I actually bought was 999: 9 Hours, 9 People, 9 Doors (basically an escape room game with a twist, and I still chuckle at some of the quotes).