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

It seems like only seconds ago I was teaching you to break your GBA and showing you pictures of mine as an example. Actually, I kid, even though it doesn’t look so hot, my GBA still works fine. I decided to sell my stock GBA and a couple of games to make the money to buy a new GBA SP (the one with the sharp backlit screen), as incentive for myself to finish those Game Boy and Game Boy Color games that sit unfinished on the shelf, since Nintendo didn’t see fit to build in reverse-compatibility to those formats in the DS.

A couple of things I discovered. Firstly, the Game Boy Micro has a more reasonable price point now, down from $100 to about $70, but I’ve seen them as low as $50 new without really trying. That’s more like it, but unfortunately, no reverse compatibility in those.

Secondly, the same Nintendo that can’t make enough Wiis to fulfill public demand seems to be having the same problem with the GBA SP, though I saw more than a dozen DS Lites today.

Nintendo has whittled their Game Boy product line down to three colors: Pearl Pink, Pearl Blue, and Graphite. The price tag is $79.99, and I actually found a pink one on the shelf at Target. I passed it up though. My goal? Graphite. Unfortunately, graphite is apparently the most popular color, and as hard as it was to find a trustworthy retailer selling Pearl Blue ones, I couldn’t find one that would sell me a graphite. The closest I got was Buy.com, which will let me buy one (and only one per customer) and ship it to me whenever they come back in.

The kicker? People trying to sell new graphite GBAs for more than $180 using Amazon auctions. I can’t accept that anyone would pay that kind of money.

What? Used? What, are you kidding… people play these things on the toilet.