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The Red DS Lite you'll never own

Japan's postal service is offering its customers a chance to win an exclusive red DS Lite. The odds of owning the coloured console - we know how much you love slightly different plastic on games machines - were 250,000/1. According to this, some bizarre Japanese people that simply don't care that the DS they won is a different colour to the DS they can buy in any shop, have started auctioning them on Yahoo!. Expect someone to play a huge amount of money for one in the west soon.

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Patrick Garratt

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Patrick Garratt is a games media legend - and not just by reputation. He was named as such in the UK's 'Games Media Awards', the equivalent of a lifetime achievement award. After garnering experience on countless gaming magazines, he joined Eurogamer and later split from that brand to create VG247, putting the site on the map with fast, 24-hour a day coverage, and assembling the site's earliest editorial teams. He retired from VG247, and the games industry, in 2017.
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