I’ve been wanting to play some of my old Game Boy Advance games recently but my Game Boy Advance SP isn’t holding a charge anymore and the backlit screen didn’t look as good as I remember it being (I have the AGS-001 version). So I was planning to order a modded GBA from eBay but figured I’d pass by Rihab and check and see what they had. Since they stopped making Game Boy Advances 10 years ago you can imagine I had difficulty finding anything at Rihab. I probably asked 20 shops if they had Game Boy Advance SP AGS-101 edition which was the last release of the SP and had a better screen then mine. Turns out that version of the SP is called “tnen light” at Rihab which translates to “two lights” and refers to the ability to select between one of two brightnesses on the device. Cute.
After all my searching I only found one brand new Game Boy SP in the whole of Rihab but it was the 001 version like mine and selling for KD20 which is actually a great deal but not what I was looking for. During my search I also found three stores that still sold Game Boy Micros which also play Game Boy Advance games. The first store had a silver model for KD50 and the limited 20th anniversary edition for KD70, similar to the prices being sold on eBay. But then I found two other stores that had pink and green european versions of the Game Boy Micro, the first store was selling them for KD25 but the second store I managed to get the guy down to KD14 per unit by agreeing to buy two. I picked up a pink unit for me (pictured on top) and a green one for my brother. The cheapest price I managed to find on eBay for a brand new Game Boy Micro was around KD70 and one guy is currently trying to sell the green Game Boy Micro for KD137 and there are 11 people watching that listing at the moment. So KD14 is an incredible deal and an easy impulse buy. If you don’t have any GBA games though you’ll have trouble finding any decent ones at Rihab, I found a bunch of shops that were selling games at KD2 a pop but they all sold the same games and none were big name titles like Metroid or Castlevania.
If you want to pick up a Game Boy Micro the place I bought mine from still had 4 units left. I don’t remember the name of the store but I drew a map of its location. Originally I had more details on the map but since there are only 4 units left I figured I’d make it just a tiny bit more challenging to find the store, kinda like a treasure hunt. Check out the map [Here]
8 replies on “Game Boy Micro for Cheap”
The GBA Micro is awesome, and I bought three from Rehab for 13 KD each about a year ago, one each color they had (Pink, Green, and Silver).
In terms of GBA Games, I highly recommend you and anyone else, to check out the GBA EverDrive Flashcart, and that can be found on Stoneage Gamer. Heres the review of it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eROTFJFZ_3s
I have all the games I want for the GBA but this could solve my issue of carrying all my games around with me. Too bad its huge and will stick out of the game boy.
oh found this which is compact https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIrlYqeZDaM
Yup, you’re right, it is protruding, but I don’t mind. It reminds of when I used to play GB and GBC games on a GBA, it would be protruding, but didnt really cause any issues.
Mark, check out @Haihaisb on Instagram, I think you would like what he does. I purchased his DMG 102
Seems a bit redundant at this point. You could literally get a gameboy emulator on your phone and play all the games you want for free. I have to admit though, playing Pokemon Blue with a touchscreen feels a bit sacrilegious to me.
I have a Nintendo DS, I could play all my GBA games on that if I wanted to but that wasn’t the aim. Playing GBA games on a GBA is different than playing GBA games on a phone or other device.
Hey Mark,
Have you been to the Friday market recently?
About 2 weeks ago I managed to find a working psp slim (analog button chipped) for 1KD, an SP for 500 fils (perfectly working with just some scratches) and a GB micro for 2 KD which is working great.
There was also a PS vita for 20 KD but I didn’t get that since it wouldn’t hold much charge
There was a bunch of games here and there as well, i’m sure you can get them for next to nothing.
i wasn’t looking for used, I found a bunch of game boys that were used in Rihab for like KD5, I was looking for new.