The 2.1.3 driver should either be fixed to work with Node 0.8, or marked as not compatible in package.json so it isn't selected for installation by npm.

To reproduce:

bash-3.2$ node -v
v0.8.28
bash-3.2$ npm install mongodb
...
bash-3.2$ npm ls
npm WARN package.json mongo-test@0.0.0 No repository field.
npm WARN package.json mongo-test@0.0.0 No readme data.
mongo-test@0.0.0 /private/tmp/mongo-test
└─┬ mongodb@2.1.3
├── es6-promise@3.0.2
├─┬ kerberos@0.0.17
│ └── nan@2.0.9
├─┬ mongodb-core@1.2.31
│ └── bson@0.4.20
└─┬ readable-stream@1.0.31
├── core-util-is@1.0.2
├── inherits@2.0.1
├── isarray@0.0.1
└── string_decoder@0.10.31

bash-3.2$ node
> require('mongodb')
TypeError: Cannot read property 'prototype' of undefined
at Object.exports.inherits (util.js:538:43)
at Object.<anonymous> (/private/tmp/mongo-test/node_modules/mongodb/lib/gridfs-stream/download.js:46:6)
at Module._compile (module.js:449:26)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:467:10)
at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
at Module.require (module.js:362:17)
at require (module.js:378:17)
at Object.<anonymous> (/private/tmp/mongo-test/node_modules/mongodb/lib/gridfs-stream/index.js:2:30)
at Module._compile (module.js:449:26)
> bash-3.2$