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

Ah, Garage sales. Ah, Craig’s List. Due to a combination of Craig’s List and a garage sale, I managed to obtain a copy of Mario Kart: Double Dash!! for Gamecube for the second time, this time for only seven dollars. The first time I got it was used from a vendor in a California desert not far from the stand where you buy coconuts that they chop open for you and you just eat like that.

California’s a weird place, but I like garage sales and Craig’s List.

The first time I got Mario Kart DD I played it a lot and had some fun, but quickly lost interest when Mario Kart DS was announced, so I sold it. Wondering if I was hasty I picked it up again because it was so cheap and it turns out yes, I was hasty. I had never figured out how to get blue sparks last time, but it turns out it works just as it does in Mario Kart DS. Needless to say I’m finally winning races, and the game’s a lot more fun. Fortunately I still had all my saves from way back when because of the big (64Mb is big for Gamecube) memory card I bought early on. I never delete anything.

I enjoyed my wife taunting me on the way back to the car: “Why didn’t you buy Tales of Symphonia?”

Hah, hah. Maybe because after playing for 40 hours before swapping discs I wanted to puke at the idea of half the game being ahead of me.

Anyway, Mario Kart. Without online play and some of the great tracks and cups in MK:DS, Double Dash!! doesn’t stand up to it, but it’s still a lot of fun. I wish I could get some multiplayer on but so far, nobody wants to play with me. The problem with lack of online play. Can’t wait for Mario Kart Wii, looks like it’ll be here within a year.