Aren't the holidays great? You get to eat lots of delicious food, take off work to hang out with friends/family, and play drunken dreidel for cash. Best of all, there's plenty of time for videogames.

But whether you're going home to visit relatives or escaping to Hawaii for a nice warm sojourn, it's pretty impractical to lug around your game consoles and TV. So the Game|Life staff has put together a list of great portable games that will help get you through those long flights and boring photo slideshows.

Just don't forget your battery charger.

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WarioWare: D.I.Y.

Nintendo DS, $40

I used to get bored on six-hour plane rides. Now they fly by, because of my patented WarioWare: D.I.Y. In-Flight Game Design Challenge. The object is simple: Use this game-making software from the wizards at Nintendo to design a portable game from scratch, creating the design, programming, graphics and music in the hours between when the pilot says it's OK to use electronic devices and the beginning of the plane's descent. The great thing is that with D.I.Y., it's entirely possible to make something fun in this short window of time. Need someone to play-test your creation? Try your seat buddy. —Chris Kohler