On my way to the library today I talked to an older gentlemen. He was Japanese, so I asked him what he thought about Nintendo. He said he was glad Nintendo made him feel better about himself. Years ago he was a good teacher in Japan, but after years of teaching he had a nervous breakdown. For years he wouldn't come out of his house. But then one day a little boy showed up at his door with a Nintendo DS. The older man said he feel in love with it from the start; unlike other electronic devices, he understood the DS right away. When he was a teacher he had a dog named Kenji, but the dog died of pnemonia on it's sixth birthday. The older man told me Kenji's spirt lives on in Nintendogs.
After years of sitting alone, his brain also began to lost its spirit. Brain Age revived it, and now he spends his days at the library re-learning all the things he once knew as well as learning how to use computers. Lastly he told me that during his depression, he lay in bed 20 hours a day. Due to this he suffered some muscle antrophy. Yet after playing Wii Sports he was able to regain control of his arms.
As I shook the man's hand, I felt his firm, warm grip and realized Nintendo is truly onto something. We should all be proud of their work. These are not simple "mini-games", they are changing people's lives.