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Welcome to Nintendo is Great, a Substack dedicated to exploring every game ever released for a Nintendo console in chronological order, starting with the NES/Famicom and working our way up to the Nintendo Switch 2.

For those unaware of Nintendo’s massive catalog of systems, this includes: NES, Game Boy, SNES, N64, Game Boy Color, GameCube, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, Wii, 3DS, Wii U, and Switch 1 + 2.

6 consoles. 5 handhelds. 2 hybrids. 1 Virtual Boy. Thousands of games. Tens of thousands of hours. We’ll be here awhile!

We’re not just playing the Nintendo developed/published games. We’re playing all the games, the good, the bad, and the ugly.

Currently, the Nintendo is Great posts are the opinions of me, Dylan Cornelius.

While I’d like to say that I can plow through hundreds of NES games without my sanity being tested, the truth is, I might need a break. If that’s the case, I’ll likely start on Game Boy or SNES, while still maintaining the Substack’s ethos of progressing through each library in chronological order.

At some point, I’d also like to cover Nintendo's arcade output, Game and Watch handhelds, Color TV Game line of systems (pre-Famicom), and maybe some of their earlier toy creations. For now, we're starting with the NES/Famicom and going from there!

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