Tiny Diggers – An iPad Construction Truck Game for Kids Age 2-5

About nine months ago I managed to wrestle my PS2 to the ground and force it to take and play Lego Star Wars despite it being a launch-era unit. You see the blue-backed discs put out late in the PS2′s lifespan were notorious for almost never playing in earlier, non-slimline PS2′s. This incompatibility aggravated me to no end, driving me to try again and again until my PS2 actually played it. In a move that turned out to be too clever by half, I decided to keep playing it, leaving the game paused instead of turning it off to keep from having to fight and fight to get it to boot again.

After three days of playing it this way, never having shut off the PS2, the PS2 was accidentally turned off and when I turned it on again, I found the game refused to boot. When I took it out of the drive it had a circular groove cut into the bottom of the disc. (See the red chevrons in the image to find the scratch.) Oops. I gingerly put the disc back into its case like one would a valuable relic and consigned it to the bottom of the stack of favorite games in storage. My hubris had scratched it and made it completely unplayable.

Fast forward to last weekend. While paging through the virtual memory cards on my PS3′s hard drive I noticed the Lego Star Wars save game. What if the scratched LSW would work in the PS3? I dug deep into storage, tried the disc, and lo and behold it seems to work just fine.

The other night I finished off the main plot and it didn’t take long to buy the last bit of characters and Extras. I’d rented Lego Star Wars II for the PSP and found it to be a near-perfect rendition of the full-sized console game, but now that I can play blue-backed games again I think I’ll pick it up for the PS2 and get the characters I’ve unlocked already by importing my Lego Star Wars saved game.