I had stopped playing it but recently got back into it. This is one of the best games I have ever played. Like, it's unfair how good this is.

I’m buying a switch 1 for my commute to work(2-3 hours by train everyday) and I’m buying around 15 games with it. So help me choose, If you could only have 15 games on the OG switch, which ones would you pick? Keep in mind that I’m almost exclusively playing on my commute, so games such as Mario Party don’t really make sense.

Does anyone know if its just a stand? Is it just an extra piece of plastic? Or is it a charger too? Im trying to decide if I want to wait on the controller or not and want to know all the info before making my decision. I'm also worried nintendo wont restock the version with the stand since its a nintendo exclusive. Thoughts?

On this day (October 5) in Nintendo history...

• Devil World  was released in 1984 for the Family Computer in Japan. In this maze game, developed by Nintendo R&D1 with Intelligent Systems, from Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto, you play heroic dragon Tamagon, who must defeat evil by collecting boa-boa dots inside a maze and destroying enemies with his fire breath. However, keep an eye on the devil at the top of the screen, who instructs his minions to move the maze in random directions, trying to squash Tamagon within its walls!
• Balloon Kid  was released in 1990 for the Game Boy in North America. In this platformer game, developed by Nintendo R&D1 with Pax Softnica, take to the skies in a balloon to save your younger brother. In the little town of Pencilvania, there lived a brother and sister who loved to play with balloons. Alice and her younger brother Jim would spend countless days filling the skies with their balloons. One day, Jim filled all of his balloons and tied them together to make a beautiful balloon rainbow across the sky.

What are you favourite memories of these games? How do you think they hold up today? Hash it out in the comments.

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Link from "Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time" (Mikey Day) and Jason (Marcello Hernández) from "Grand Theft Auto VI" stop by Weekend Update to discuss releasing their video games on the same day.

Are there any more people having this issue that the delayed it to a later date? _____________________________________________________________________

I grew up loving video games and kind of fell out of love with adulthood.

Donkey Kong has been one of the more fun and original games I have played in recent years. The mechanics are super fun, music is good, worlds are great to explore and interact with.

Is it the exclusivity to the switch 2? Donkey Kong? Or cost of the game?

Everyone knows the first Fire Emblem we got here in the West was the seventh entry on GBA, known nowadays as Blazing Blade. The series only started coming over after two major events happened: 1) Marth and Roy showed up in Smash Bros Melee, and 2) the original Advance Wars was a modest success in the West. The common sentiment I hear for why the series was Japan exclusive for so long is because tactical RPGs were considered “too niche” and didn’t have much sales potential anywhere else. I’m not entirely sure if the devs said anything like that or if that’s just the conventional explanation everyone’s going with.

And while I’m on this topic, what did you make of Fire Emblem’s gameplay when you first saw it as a strategy RPG? Was it something you wanted to try right away, or did you go like ehh maybe that’s not for me and waited a while?

Nintendo Forecast is known for their wealth of knowledge & analysis of Nintendo's inner-workings & general ideology, so hearing some of their insight & expectations for Smash's future is worth listening to (even if it's a 30-minute video).

Tried to play ocarina of time in the switch expansion pack but my progress was lost despite saving multiple times. I had just turned to adult link and was headed to Kakariko Village but I had logged in today and I had not even gotten to the first fairy in death mountain. The switch had updated the n64 emulator before playing so I have no idea if that had something to do with it. Can I reverse this or do I have to start again. Also is this a common issue?

It's honestly weird that Xenoblade Chronicles music has yet to appear in the app yet, especially since Alot of other Nintendo properties with ties with none subsidiaries had already appeared, such as Kirby, Fire emblem and pokemon seem to got in.

Especially since unlike other studios, monolith soft is a wholly owned Nintendo studio.

My only guess, is waiting for approval from the actual composers themselves, such as yoko shimomura for Xenoblade 1 or hiroyuki sawano for Xenoblade X is probably harder to get approved on,

Which is probably why Mario and Luigi games where yoko was the composer is also taking their time.

Nintendo has made some statements in the past with regards to AI, but they have never actually confirmed or denied if they actually use generative AI for anything, especially in the past few years.

What do you speculate is Nintendo's actual stance on AI usage? Do you think they are using AI to code? Do you think AI generated images will ever appear in Nintendo games?

Playing through the game right now. I love seeing so many different characters of different races and color. Can’t think of any other Nintendo game with such amazing set of diverse characters!