Nintendo DS Pickings are slim in the Sunday ads this week.
Target is offering $5 Target gift cards with the purchase of the newly released game SimAnimals or the modern classic New Super Mario Bros.
At Best Buy, selected Imagine and Petz titles (The ad pictures Fashion Designer and Dogz) are $19.99, which is $10 off.
Buy.com has Hotel Dusk: Room 215 on sale for $14.99, including shipping, through Feb. 2. This “game” takes the Nintendo DS system to another level. Hotel Dusk plays like an interactive book as you try to solve the mystery and figure out why detective Kyle Hyde is so darn mysterious in the first place.
The Zenses puzzle games (both Rainforest and Ocean versions) for Nintendo DS are on sale for $19.99 at Toys R Us, a $10 savings. The sale runs through February 28.
There are only two days left on Amazon.com’s 25 percent off DS accessories
The new GameStop ad lists deals running from Jan. 23-Jan. 29. Mario Kart DS, regularly $39.99, is on sale for $34.99. And many Ubisoft games regularly priced at $29.99 are $19.99, including My Spanish Coach, Petz games, Prince of Persia, Endwar and Shaun White Snowboarding. Some used DS games are also discounted. GameStop is also having a contest where you can win all of the top eight games of 2008. Go to www.gamestop.com/top8 to enter. You can also vote for the year’s best games on each gaming platform, including Nintendo DS.
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