Have you ever brought a handheld to school?
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Yep. I take my 3ds to school with me to get the (very few) streetpass hits. I also took my DSIXL to school, hid it in a massive ass pencil case and sneakily played it during English a few years ago. Hated the teacher and the school, and I'm glad to have switched schools since.
Senior year I don't do shit in my classes so I bring my Vita to classes. I'm playing games like Persona 4 (which is a total inception) and Zero Escape, so I'm learning! I swear!
Well, of course. How else are you playing Tetris against a friend with a link-cable on your gameboy?
Man, i am old.
Man, i am old.
The school district where I work has a Bring-Your-Own-Device wifi network and protocol for students to sign in using their student ID so we can track and filter. These kids bring ALL the handheld devices, and tablets, and laptops. I really wish my school growing up was more like the one where I work now, and less like the movie Dangerous Minds or The Substitute.
i had in the past but it always made me extremely paranoid. i was constantly worried about it getting taken away by the teacher or getting stolen.
I actually don't remember, I probably did though. It's not like I had anything better to do on the bus than play Pokémon.
No, I'm pretty sure they'd confiscate that shit if they caught you with it and I'm pretty sure you weren't allowed to bring your mobile's into my school either. In my primary school they even banned Pokemon cards so from a young age it was kind of ingrained in me that nothing fun was permitted within school grounds. Really though even if that weren't the case it didn't seem worth the risk to me, I didn't want my Gameboy/PSP to get stolen or broken, especially after I managed to crack the screen of my phone when I brought it into school once. It might have been useful to have around in sixth form, but up until that point I had like an hour and a half of free time during the school day that I could of used to play the thing that I'd normally be too busy spending hanging around with friends and I wasn't so impatient that I couldn't just wait til the end of the day to play it without running the risk of it getting lost/broke/stolen and whatnot.
Yes, but I was also in university at the time. Heck I've also brought my gaming laptop to school at times if I knew I was going to have a long break that day and wanted to watch a movie or play a few games between classes. That said it was pretty infrequent and I usually brought a book over a either device most days. That or actually studied/worked during my breaks.
Very rarely back in my elementary and high school days. Once in a while I would for various reasons.
Now in college, I bring my 3DS with me almost everyday. Either to play games or get street passes, I go everywhere with it.
Now in college, I bring my 3DS with me almost everyday. Either to play games or get street passes, I go everywhere with it.
All the flippin' time. I got really cocky about it back in Middle School when I'd play on my GBA and DS in the middle of class. Only got me stuff confiscated once though, funnily enough. And even got off easy from that too. After that in High School I also brought them, but only to play during lunch periods or slow days in classes where the teachers didn't give a fuck, so I guess I basically learned my lesson.
Oh yes. Yes yes yes. I had a Gameboy Color that I brought to middle school with me basically every day. My friends followed suit and we would have silent wars over who had the best GBC - I had the clear purple, a friend had the neon green, and another friend had the opaque purple. I didn't care whose was best, I just could not get enough LoZ: Link's Awakening DX. Yes.
I didn't have another handheld until around...oh, age 20 or so when I bought a secondhand first gen Nintendo DS despite playing the everliving out of my GBCs (I ended up with two or three of them, inherited from friends and relatives who no longer wanted them, as well as a beautiful dark metallic blue classic GameBoy.) I would have never brought a handheld to high school though because I was always talking to friends, reading, drawing, or studying. Had no time for gaming at school.
I didn't have another handheld until around...oh, age 20 or so when I bought a secondhand first gen Nintendo DS despite playing the everliving out of my GBCs (I ended up with two or three of them, inherited from friends and relatives who no longer wanted them, as well as a beautiful dark metallic blue classic GameBoy.) I would have never brought a handheld to high school though because I was always talking to friends, reading, drawing, or studying. Had no time for gaming at school.
Nope, I had a Game Boy Color but when I went to school I just left it home. Schools were a lot more strict about having electronics back then, so there was a risk of it getting taken away by a teacher(not to mention the risk of it getting stolen). By the time I got into High School I didn't really use my GBC anymore, so I never brought it there either.
Being an old(ish) fart, my handheld of choice when I was at School was the original Nintendo GameBoy. Sadly, many of the morons I was forced to share my school-time with thought the most hilarious thing in the world would be to keep on turning it off (or at least try to turn it off) while I was playing.