1 hours or maybe 2 hours tops. For me a game has to be interesting from the moment you start playing it to the very end for it to be considered a fun game to play.

I know you can play super stardust HD whilst listening to music in the background. Dont know any others though.

I thank you gamespot for taking peoples ideas and putting them up for discussion. I believe that having a comments section on the user reviews could help alot as people get to see what people think of the review you have written, and I understand you would also need moderators to help look at these reviews for spam or offensive talk (hint hint im open!). Also perhaps some form of structure to reviews? Give people subheadings to start with so they have topics to talk about and may add or delete sub heading to meet there own personal preference, in my own opinion, if I see a review with no sturcture, i dont read it. There either difficult to read or not detailed enough to meet my personal taste. Hope you read and hope my changes can be taken into effect.

I dont understand american currency, hopefully people understand british currency :D the 3DS was announced to be 250,000 yen which is around £180. This sounds like a good price seeing as the DSi on launch was £160. The optimist in me wants to believe it will be around £180 if not less, but in reality i reckon it will be about £200 - £220

Technically Super Mario 64 DS as i got the DS on release date, but i never enjoyed it as much as the original and my next game i got, pokemon blue mystery dungeon was easily the first DS game that i 'enjoyed'.

I'd probably say the orange one, but it looks more gold to me which is a bonus! If not then the blue one is definitely a second choice.

If your looking for split screen games, that a tough question. The only one i can think of from the top of my head is Gran Turismo 5 if your into racing games. But theres loads of options online, black ops, borderlands, army of two 40th day which also be done split screen.

Definitely, seeing as you have only played the 1st generation heartgold would be a great start as its a remake of the 2nd generation. Make sure you get a DS Lite though, then you can buy the 3rd generation ones, ruby or sapphire, then the 4th generation on DS, diamond and pearl. If you plan on going that far that is :P And the 5th generation is due for release march 6th, so you have 3 generations to look forward to until then! :D