Reports surfaced this weekend of a long-rumored event in gaming – the first field usage of the Nintendo DSi camera. Almost a year after the DSi’s North American release, rumors had swirled throughout the gaming community that the day would soon come when the camera would actually be used. Hardcasual can exclusively report that those rumors are finally confirmed – the Nintendo DSi’s camera served a purpose at 11:21 PM this weekend, in a small party in St. Louis, Missouri.

Greg Thomas, 24, was at the party, and in an exclusive interview, shared the surprising details. “We were just hanging out in the backyard, drinking a few beers, playing a little poker, when all of a sudden, these two squirrels just started fuckin’ away out on this tree branch right by the house. We all went straight for our phones – we had to get a picture of this.”

But the picture was not to be – for the group quickly realized that many of their phones either had a flash, which would endanger startling the squirrels, both ruining the potential for further photos and possibly causing the dangerous situation of an “enraged horned-up squirrel”, as Greg put it in his statement. The remainder of the group had iPhones, which, as everyone knows, can’t take a picture for shit.

“So my man Mikey pulls out his fucking Game Boy, and he’s all like ‘I got this thing for Christmas, it’s got a camera, I think.’ And we’re all like, why do you have a Game Boy, why does it have a camera, what is going on here? And he’s not really sure of any of it, but he starts turning it on, and then he’s all taking pictures of these squirrels doing it and showing us how he can draw Mario noses on it and shit.”

A representative for Nintendo told us, “The Nintendo DSi’s camera serves many purposes – a way to show that we’ve slightly improved the product, a feature we can add to press releases, a theoretically useful piece of technology. We never thought that it could actually be used to take photographs, but it just goes to show the ingenuity and resourcefulness of Nintendo’s fans.”

Sources who saw the pictures have told us that they look like “a digital abortion” and “don’t look anything like how awesome those two squirrels doing it were”, and Mikey has returned his Nintendo DSi to a shelf, where it will wait until the next time he takes a cross-country flight.