I’m planning to pick up my shiny new DS Lite this weekend. Aside from the general excitement about new gaming fun, I’ve been mulling over my initial purchases some.

I decided in order to get the stuff I want (and still stay within my budget), I need to unload a few things. Of course trading stuff in to game stores gets you practically nothing but practically nothing is better than literally nothing. Still, I’d rather give other folks the chance to take my stuff for cheap and maybe have them actually get some use out of it rather than sit around. I’ll do my best to beat used prices from major retailers. Can’t promise you won’t find cheaper stuff elsewhere but at least I’m an honest guy and I take care of my stuff… which is more than I can say for Mr. Random Internets Guy. Also, I’m negotiable.

If you’re interested in any of this, please let me know soon. Some of it may be gone by next week, others may still be around so first come first serve and all that. Also, I don’t need hard and fast commitments or cash by tomorrow or anything like that, just a quick note that says, “I saw you were unloading X and I might want to take that off your hands…” will suffice to hold me from trading it in right away.

Here’s the goods:

• GameBoy Advance SP – Silver. No damage but it is a little scuffed from being in my backpack. I have a new AC adapter (third party… I lost the original) and I’ll send Tetris along with it if you like. EB Games sells them used for $59.99. I’ll take $25 for it OBO.
• Golden Sun – A fun SNES-style RPG along the lines of Final Fantasy II. EB says $7.99 used; I’ll take $5.
• Metroid Fusion – It’s fun but hard. It has a cool link up feature with Metroid Prime (although it could have been a lot cooler). It’s $9.99 from EB but kind of hard to find sometimes (at least around here) so I’ll do $5.
• GameCube – Silver, and includes a Wavebird wireless controller, regular silver wired controller and I’ll toss in your choice of Metroid Prime or Eternal Darkness (unless you’re a kid in which case I’ll give you Metroid so your parents don’t hunt me down for giving you nightmares). EB sells a used GC for $60 and a new Wavebird for $35 (they don’t have a used price on it) so I’ll say $50 OBO for the whole deal.
• Resident Evil 4 – Best game I’ve played in a long time. No kids, though, it’s too gory. $17.99 at EB for a used copy; I’ll do $12.
• Halo 2 – You may have heard of it? $25.00 used from EB but yours for only $15 from me. Such a deal.

If you want all the Nintendo stuff (GBA SP and GC plus the games) I’ll throw everything into one box, cover the shipping and give the other game (Metroid or Eternal Darkness) plus a GBA/GC link cable and anything else I have lying around. We can call it $80.

Oh, and while we’re (sorta) talking about Nintendo: Remaking the original Legend of Zelda SNES-style? Yes. Please.