Something weird happened last night in that brilliant Nintendo Direct. Nintendo announced what felt like the best launch line-up ever, but it was actually a bunch of old games, coming onto a system which, somehow, is approaching its twilight.
This was the arrival of Game Boy and Game Boy Advance games onto the Switch. What a line-up! Some true classics! Some odd choices! Some weird omissions! Everything, in other words, that one expects from Nintendo.
More than anything, though, a bunch of us were just deeply excited to play these games again – to get reacquainted with these friends from years, and handhelds, past. So here are some of the games we’re really excited to play again. What about you?
Mario and Luigi: Superstar Saga
On my first outing, I played this game at Christmas – in the lead up to Christmas and over the break, in the days when I still used to go back to my mum’s house each year. So it’s absolutely entangled with Christmas – the purples and pinks and golds of the colour scheme blending with lights and holly and all that jazz.