Nintendo 3DS User Receives a Nostalgic Surprise Following Green Day Concert

Okay, so picture this—you’re at a Green Day concert, music blaring, lights flashing, and out of nowhere, a Nintendo 3DS owner flips open their device. Why? Well, because maybe recording concerts on a 3DS is a meme now? Who knows. Anyway, as they’re leaving, guess what? That old friend, the LED, starts glowing green. Yes, we’re talking StreetPass.

Now, if you owned a 3DS back in its glory days, you’ll remember that little green light. It meant your 3DS had bumped into another one, and bam! You’d have a new Mii in your StreetPass Plaza. It was like digital magic. Nintendo cooked up StreetPass because, well, the 3DS could nap all day and still have enough juice to keep this feature alive. But nowadays, if you see someone with a 3DS, you might as well have spotted a unicorn.

It’s kinda wild, right? A 3DS at a Green Day concert in Athens, Greece, of all places. This person, we’ll just call them Leftoo (not their real name, probably, but who cares), mentioned on Reddit that they lugged their 3DS to the concert. Why? Because memes, naturally. People have been snapping pics of these little devices at concerts despite the (let’s be real) low-quality video and sound recording. But hey, if it makes you happy, right?

In a surprising twist, they walked out with the LED shining green, meaning someone else had a 3DS there too. Now, that’s random. It’s like finding another soul in a sea of people who still carries their old tech around.

And diving into the comments section is like opening a time capsule. Loads of people reminiscing about the good ol’ days when the streets were full of StreetPass encounters. Apparently, some folks can’t quit the habit. They still carry their 3DS around, hoping for a rare encounter. One guy even got a StreetPass on a train. Go figure.

Here’s the thing though, Nintendo doesn’t actively support the 3DS or its features like StreetPass anymore. It’s kinda sad when you think about it. No official online play or future updates in sight. The Nintendo Switch left StreetPass in the dust, and Switch 2 didn’t bother to revive it either. Was it the battery life? Portability? I mean, who knows what goes on in those boardrooms. But one thing’s for sure, lots of fans wish it’d make a comeback.

Okay, where was I? Oh yeah, the nostalgia! It’s a bit of a bummer that StreetPass seems gone for good. But you can bet some die-hards are still carrying their 3DS like a charm, hoping for that fleeting green moment. Ah, the randomness of it all.