Have you ever brought a handheld to school?

[Snowbell]

Pah! School? Try school, sixth form and university!

I have anxiety issues that plague me when I go on nights out, I find bringing my DS along helps me get through it by having something to focus on so I don't feel I'm being ignored for no reason

So yeah, if you see a girl in a pub on her 3DS that's probably me XD

 

[Tuesday Night Fever]

I remember being the only kid on the playground that had a trade link cable that worked. I ran the entire Pokemon trading schtick. I was the God damn Godfather of Pokemon.

Heh. That was me in my town.

Especially once I figured out the glitch with the link cable that allowed you to effectively clone a Pokémon that's being traded.

I also was the only person in town that had #151, Mew, in the original game. Which I refused to clone, because I was a jerk.

 

[thejackyl]

I had a "Giga Pet", which from what I remember was an americanized Tamagotchi, or perhaps just one with animals instead of monster things. I got in confiscated even though I only had it on the playground. The teacher had to go through my backpack to get it. I got it back at the end of the school year.

I routinely brought my gameboy to school. My school was a local sports powerhouse, so ANY sporting event practically meant than anyone not involved in sports had the day off, or at least 90% of the day was now a study hall. Teachers didn't really care as long as I kept the sound off.

I brought my SP for the ride to New York (Senior trip), everyone thought I was playing pokemon and gave me shit for it, and my gaming friends were pissed off that I didn't bring pokemon when they heard I had been playing it.

Apart from the Giga Pet, I never got in trouble for having any of them. I got in more trouble for bringing in a CD Player and listening to that before school, since my bus driver got us there like an hour before classes started

 

[Guffe]

When I was in second to fourth grade (age 8-10) the Pokemon games on GameBoy were very popular.
Many had them to school so on breaks everyone used to battle each other or trade pokemon.
Good times

 

[jdogtwodolla]

I did at the end of my schooling. I had a DS and a PSP for +5 years before I bothered buying any game for them. So half of senior year on my off time I brought the psp to school. Then in college I brought the DS.

 

[TehCookie]

I'd take it occasionally in elementary-high school and play it during lunch, but I take to class with me everyday in college. I try to cram all my classes to one day so I don't have to drive as much but sometimes that leaves me with a lot of downtime.

 

[Beffudled Sheep_v1legacy]

I take my 3DS to College sometimes and play it during my large in-between class breaks.
Before that I never brought electronics to any of my schools since theft was always a big problem.

 

[Auron225]

We weren't allowed to in primary school for fear of losing them. I simply never thought to in high school for a long time until I started doing it in my last year

In primary school we were always allowed one toy on the last day of term - thankfully gameboy colours counted as toys On the last day of term half the boys in our class brought their gameboy colours and Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow version. Someone brought a link cable too so battles all the live long day XD I annihalated most of my class with my Lvl70 Charizard. Dear love the previous kid-who-was-beating-everyone - he thought his Lvl50 Venusaur was the shiz

EDIT: To clarify - when I say "losing them" (gameboys), I mean the teachers taking them off us. I mean, obviously they would have given them back at some stage but we didn't know that...

 

[Baldr]

My public school system had a zero tolerance, no electronics policy. I'm a bit older than most people here, so it was no big deal as pretty much the only handheld was a Gameboy and very few people had cell phones. I still agree with the policy. I don't think students need any electronics than those provided/allowed by the school (even cell phones.) They are to much of a distraction. I remeber how much of a distraction the games were on our graphing calculators.

 

[Silvanus]

I never brought a handheld to school, but I did secretly attach a pokewalker to my shorts during Physical Education once.

 

[FrozenCones]

I cant remember about school but I recently took my 3DS in to work. It was absolutely dead quiet but I was still expected to be there incase an urgent job came through.

I played Ocarina of Time and Pokemon Y for about 5 hours.