Game Releases · 2002

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1 games (of 1,131 in 2002) platform: nintendo-ds genre: platformer developer: inti-creates

Nintendo DS 2002

Nintendo · 2004–2014 · 2,507 games all-time on RAWG

Note: these 2002 titles predate the hardware — RAWG lists later ports and re-releases under the original release date.

Nintendo DS is Nintendo’s fourth major portable game console. Released as a successor to the company’s Game Boy series of portable game consoles, DS used a clamshell design, similar to the Game Boy Advance SP. The main feature of the console was its dual-screen display with the bottom screen being touch-sensitive. The console included a stylus for more precise touchscreen input and used the wireless connection for local and online multiplayer in specific titles. The Nintendo DS was a massive success for the company and as for 2018 is the second best-selling game console of all time Three Nintendo DS titles – New Super Mario Bros., Nintendogs and Mario Kart DS sold more than 20 million copies. During its lifespan, it had several redesigns: more compact version and ergonomic DS Lite, DSi that featured preinstalled browser, camera, and online game store, DSi XL, the version of DSi with bigger screens. The original DS and DS Lite were backward compatible with Game Boy Advance games.

Releases in 2002
1
Release window
10 Sep 2002 → 10 Sep 2002
Busiest month
September 2002 1
Avg user rating
4.60of 5, 1 ranked
Most prolific developers

Why some games have no rating

RAWG publishes an average score only once a game has collected 6 or more user votes. Below that it returns 0.0 — while still returning the full vote breakdown. So a game nobody has ever rated and a game with five “exceptional” votes arrive looking identical.

Those suppressed scores are recomputed from the breakdown, which recovers 0 of the 1 games here that would otherwise read as unrated. The rest have no votes at all — mostly obscure, regional or unported titles. That is a real absence, not a gap in the fetch: there is nothing to retrieve.

Everything with a vote ranks in one table, because the order is weighted rather than a raw mean: a score is shrunk toward the all-years mean of 3.79 (too few ranked games here to take a local one) in proportion to how thin its evidence is, so a two-vote 5.0 settles near the middle instead of on top. Metacritic joins at half that weight where it exists.

1 ranked (6+ votes) 0 provisional (1–5 votes) 0 never rated 10 votes counted 4.60 mean of ranked
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Ranked 1 game with at least one vote

Ordered by a weighted score, not the raw mean: each game's own average is shrunk toward the all-years mean of 3.79 in proportion to how few votes it rests on, and Metacritic is folded in at half that weight where it exists. A 6-vote 4.67 therefore ranks below a 2,100-vote 4.45 — the raw figure is shown under each score, and sorting by raw score ignores the weighting entirely.

Bars show how the votes split — Exceptional, Recommended, Meh, Skip. A ~ on the raw figure marks a score recomputed from a breakdown RAWG suppresses.

1 MegaMan Zero 10 Sep 2002 · Inti Creates · Nintendo DS, Game Boy Advance 3.93 4.60 raw 10 —