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A Brand New Nintendo Switch Indie World Showcase Will Air Tomorrow (8/18)

Tomorrow, there will be a brand new Indie World Showcase for games coming to the Nintendo Switch! We have the details below. Nintendo announced on twitter today that there would be an Indie World Showcase tomorrow, August 18th. According to Nintendo, “The next #IndieWorld Showcase is headed your way! Tune in on Tuesday, Aug. 18 at 9 a.m. PT for roughly 20 minutes of information on indie games coming to #NintendoSwitch.” 20 minutes! That could be a lot of indie…

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More Thoughts From Me #233: The Moon Is Cursed Again

I’m back! At least for now. And I want to finally talk about Bloodstained Curse of the Moon 2. I haven’t been playing it much lately but I really love this game. Let’s talk about Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon 2 for the Nintendo Switch! I miss Castlevania. I wouldn’t say Castlevania is one of my top ten favorite games of all time, theres a lot of games I love, but it is somewhere on the list of games I…

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More Thoughts From Me #231: Donkey Kong Country Nostalgia

Donkey Kong Country is on the Nintendo Switch Online Service now (via the SNES app) and so I thought it was finally time to talk about the game. What’s it like playing DKC again? What’s my best memory of the game? When I was much younger, during the SNES era, I was a huge fan of Donkey Kong Country. The first game in the series. I never did play the second or third one back then (still haven’t played the…

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Lego Nintendo Entertainment System Set Announced

Lego is making a Nintendo Entertainment System Set! Check out a video and the details about it below. According to the Nintendo of America twitter, “Bring the pixels to life with the #LEGO Nintendo Entertainment System set! Assemble your own console and retro TV, then turn the crank to make 8-bit Mario move across the screen! Add your LEGO Mario figure for even more fun!” I think this set looks really cool! I wish I didn’t suck at putting Lego…

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More Thoughts From Me #229: A Look Back At All the Paper (Mario)

Paper Mario: The Origami King will be coming out very soon (July 17th) and so I thought I’d take a look back at previous Paper Mario games. Here they are: the good, the bad, and the ugly… The newest Paper Mario game will be coming out soon. So its time to take a look back at the good, the bad, and the ugly of the series. Let’s start at the beginning… Paper Mario: Debuting on the Nintendo 64, this game…

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Mr. Driller DrillLand Review

If you’ve ever played Dig Dug, you know that game is about digging deeper and depper into the ground. Mr. Driller DrillLand for the Nintendo Switch is a lot like Dig Dug, expect with its own unique flavor. Is that flavor enough to make this game interesting? Mr. Driller DrillLand features a world map with five different attractions, basically six different worlds. Each one of them has them our unique flavor: everything from Indiana Jones style adventure to horror to…

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Still the Year of Luigi For Me: A Look At the Pixel Pal Luigi

I metioned that PDP recently sent me some stuff in the mail recently. One of the things that they sent me was a Pixel Pal Luigi. Let’s take a look at it! Pixel Pal is a collectable item and looks really excellent on any gamers shelf. The Pixel Pal that I got was: 8-Bit Luigi – #10 – Nintendo – Collector’s Edition Its still the year of Luigi! I had to have this figure. Luigi just doesn’t get enough love.…

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More Thoughts From Me #227: Sega! Classics!

I was a Nintendo kid growing up, so I didn’t play very many Sega games. I played Sonic, everybody played Sonic, but not many of the other games. Over the years, I have played a few more Sega games, like Beyond Oasis and recently the first Phantasy Star, but there are still a lot of Sega games I haven’t played. Recently, I decided to get the Sega Genesis Classics collection for Nintendo Switch (helped that it was on sale). What…

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Namco Museum Archives Vol. 1 and 2 Review

Namco Museum Archives Vol. 1 and 2 are two separate games but because they have a lot of similarities, I am doing a review for them both here. They will each have their own separate review score at the end of this article. Are Namco Museum Archives Vol. 1 and 2 worth checking out? Namco Museum Archives Vol. 1 is a collection of such games as Pac-man, Xevious, Mappy, and more! There are eleven titles in all. Pac-man Championship Edition,…

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Darius Cozmic Collection Arcade Review

Darius Cozmic Collection Arcade is a collection of seven arcade Darius games! Are they as good as the console games? Let’s take a look in my review of Darius Cozmic Collection Arcade! Darius Cozmic Collection Arcade only contains seven games, while its console counterpart has nine. I’m going to make a bold statement though: the arcade collection is the better of the two games! Why is the Darius Arcade collection better? This collection has even more options than the console…

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