Mine is SW-7961-1005-3329 you smelly deer.

Sent!

*shame* I don't even know how to look up that code.

I need to pull it out and recharge after the long play session of Mario Kart from a couple days ago, anyhow.

Never mind. Found it. SW-1952-7761-3603

Cool! Sent you a request! Thanks for the watch! Nice gallery! :D

Received and approved. Though, I must inform ya that I'm very rarely on-line with the Switch. Mostly use it on the road or at work.

I just got mine as a bonus at work, and I can't actually afford any games yet! Haha!

A wonderful thing about the Switch is that Nintendo (at long last) is getting a ton of third party support going. Come this Christmas, the selections should be amazing.

From my experiences, the must have Zelda certainly does live up to the hype. However, I've been running around in circles and can barely figure out how to reach any vital spots. I just keep on randomly adventuring, finding the same starter tower and this massive cliff drop that limits the world. Been resisting an FAQ...so far.

Cave Story is just as great as it's original release. Same goes for The Binding of Issac with it's twin stick shooter interface. Both have far more need of my time to make true progress into.

Mario Kart is a fantastic experience. Then again, I've been a fan of that series since the S-NES days. Expect every session to demand 30 minutes.

I can't comment about Blaster Master. Darn thing needed an update...and exceeded the external memory card. Which is one of my gripes...about modern gaming and not focused on just the Switch. For I do feel that modern downloaded games are space hogs. I have an X-Box One. HDD was nearly filled after the first day. And that didn't take too much more then the free game that came with the system and a couple Disc games. (The gigantic external drive is helping with that...some.) Got a PS4. Didn't take long for that HDD to fill up, either. And...having Blaster Master and Othello shouldn't be maximizing the 64 Gig SD card by their lonesome. So...space hogging games just kills the whole concept of an e-shop on all the platforms. When 2 to 5 games overflows a modern storage system. Yet, my PS3 (with the maximum sized HDD it can tolerate) is holding literally hundreds of games, hours of shows, a dozen music CD's and still has gigs of space.

In other words, only bother with games on physical cards, which I am so thankful is a thing with Nintendo.

Street fighter fans can get Street Fighter II...on virtually almost any platform out there.

1...2...Switch (I think it's called) is a tech demo...sold at full price. Should have been a pack in freebie, in my opinion.

A far better two player experience is found through Snippits. At least all the YouTube videos say so.

Splatoon 2 just released. Not one I'm interested in. But a popular new franchise.

The next big title is the newest Mario 3D gaming experience. But, I'm waiting for the arcade compile that releases in just a few days. True horizontal gaming of some rarely seen classics. Just something you don't dare do on a PC emulation or a TV hooked up to a PS1.

On a different note, on the way out of work tonight, I finally saw three Switches in the display unit. (Which makes four that I've seen in there.) Looks like Nintendo is kicking up the production numbers, at long last.

Haven't gotten zelda yet. I'll pick it up later because I feel like over time it will still be good.

I own cave story on multiple platforms. I remember playing that while I was still in school way before it was ever "published" I remember being so hyped when it first came out on the wii!

I'm borrowing mario kart 8 from my boss now. I have it already on the wiiU and I really don't think that i'll buy it again on the switch because paying 80 dollars (canadian) just seems steep for what you get. I've always preferred F-Zero so i'm hoping that Nintendo gives that franchise some love other than just DLC. I hear Fast Racing RMX may give me the thing i'm looking for.

I played the blaster master demo. It seems really fun! I think I rented the game as a kid once.

I want 1-2 switch just because it seems like a fun thing to have for when you have a bunch of people over and they all want to play it. This is another game I'm going to wait on I think and pick up used.

Snipperclips seems super awesome. I played the demo alone and with a friend. Totally way better in co op. I'll be picking this up.


So the stuff i'm mostly looking at getting in the next few months is Arms, Splatoon 2, mario odyssey and fast racing RMX

Agreed on so many points. Zelda will remain a classic, no matter the era. Heck. People still play the NES ones, to this day.

Cave Story doesn't seem to be packing any changes. So, if you already got it, why re-get it? For me, I never got it anywhere else. So...

Got Mario Kart 8 on the WiiU. Why re-get it? Again...I never got it on the WiiU. So...

Do wait on the 1-2 Switch to go down in price. It's suppose to be a party game. But, the asking price is way too steep. I do hear it does things with those controllers that don't seem possible. Like...somehow makes it feel as if physical things are bouncing around inside and changing weight. Then again, I don't know how the 3D even works on the 3DS.

As for my earlier rant about super sized gaming...I'm undergoing one, right now. From the RedBox machine, I just rented the new Kong movie. It gave me a free video game. I quite literally watched the whole movie and that game is still updating. I swear the disc probably didn't contain much more then an access code and the whole game's on the server. Something like 7 GB's worth of game...for a night's free rental. Oy!

Woah that's brutal. It reminds me of the time Activision made a new Tony hawk game. The game wasn't finished butthey HAD to release the game on a certain date because they were going to lose the license. So they shipped the game with only the first level and rushed everything while it was being shipped out to the store. So the game only had the first level on the disk and everything else downloaded on a huge mandatory patch on day one. Hahaha so lame!

Heard about that. It's become more the trend then the exception. And, in the long run, it will totally ruin the whole concept of used gaming...once the servers that host 'those games' start shutting down. Because the physical discs are a promise to a whole game. Yet, are more coffee table coasters then actual uses of physical space.

One of the games I own for the X-Box is that Rare Replay compilation. The games that are on there are the emulated 'Zed-Ex' super early games and I believe the NES stuff. Am tempted to say that all those probably reside on just a couple tracks of the disc. Anything more substantial and a real reason to own this disc for must be downloaded. Probably means that 20 years down the road, that disc will be mostly useless.

Maybe, it does not even matter. For I have this theory that if technology advances in the direction I think it might, Augmented Reality may be as big of a game changer as HDTV was. This theory goes that with the use of super light headgear (-MAYBE- special glasses. Though, high tech contact lenses are becoming quite possible. And micro ear buds.) mixed with a new computer interface, (Say, Li-Fi. Basically, this is like a Wi-Fi router connection, only it uses these special light bulbs that transmit information at a super high rate of speed. Plus, being light, the devices are powered by it and remove the need for batteries and wires and bulk.) everyone will be able to redesign their living experience for an insanely low price. Because the imbalance of powerful high tech from countries (Like RoC) that can make the stuff for pennies a day, it will become possible to have a movie house sized television/monitor screen inside your own living room. And the best surround sound experience, available. Or...how about a video chat system that can only be rivaled by actually hosting a real party? Invite friends from all over the Earth that are virtually walking and talking inside your place. (With the benefit of zero clean up after it's all over.) And a whole lot more become possible, once you 'Augment' your reality by seeing the real world through these lens's. It will do a lot of damage to modern electronic approaches, too. (If all this goes down the way I suspect it will.) Once you have 'Augmented Vision', you truly have little reason to keep a bulky, LCD television screen about. Just takes up space and will be...so small...a viewing area. Besides, buying a new one of those will be hundreds of times more expensive then a new 'Augmented System' will ever cost. (The computer will be tucked away and more of a remote connection juncture to some kind of Cloud based system. So, the next gen Raspberri Pi @ two bucks will do just fine.) Which means all the antique stuff that hooks up to said TV is no longer needed, either. (Because, your new Augmented Computer will most likely have virtually no ports to plug stuff into but the lamp(s) and the power.) I'm not sure just how tight such a new system will become in options. For, I can certainly see such systems coming packed in with subscriptions to video packages that host movies and TV shows. Plus Stream based gaming services that you buy the rights to available games. Hackers will probably figure out ways to escape any artificially set limits to make it possible to play older stuff...like PS4/X-Box One games. But, in such a world where people literally just toss functional LCD's screens to the street curb, will it even matter (in the majority) that old discs that are missing their promised games...even matter?

Since the Switch is a totally contained system, it can remain legit in such a future 'Augmented' world. Although, I suspect that once (if) the majority of people just grow up with always being 'Augmented', then there will probably be public interfaces popping up, everywhere. (Like Wi-Fi hot spots are, today.) Because Augmented feeds are way too useful. Pop up tips on everything. Advertising feeds. Instant access to information. And so much more. No more need for hand held SmartPhones when Augmented Reality is there on demand. (Just contracts. Those will probably never go away.) Also, no more need for PC's and laptops. Augmented replaces all that, too. I even dare say that in a climate comfortable zone, Augmented can replace clothes. Because, when Augmented, you just look at everyone around you and the Augmentation fills in clothes and won't let you see what you don't want to. (If I was a video artist, I definitely know how the imagined movie to this tech would look. We'd see this whole community of luxury and wealth as people comfortably live. Then, pull away. It's a dwelling of people in poverty, housed in a broken down motel that's on the verge of collapse. Getting by via 'Augmented' improvements and Government supplied 3D printed food. Walking maintenance robots to keep things minimally livable.)

On a totally different note: I wanted to bring up one weakness about the Switch. It's that docking station. Be very careful about using it. Seems the thing will scratch up the Switch with minimal use. I haven't even taken that docking station out of the box. Instead, I've been using my Switch like a Game Boy. Plug it in via the supplied cable and keep it in a protective cover when not in use. I also picked up a third party charging/holding stand, just to avoid that cheap stand they supplied.