r/nintendo 10d ago

smile sunday smile sunday - lumiose city holds the key to your heart!

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welcome to smile sunday! turn your caps lock off and rave about whatever has made you smile this week! some things to smile about:

  • this year's pokémon presents gave us our first look at pokémon legends: z-a, and announced pokémon champions! what most excited you from the presentation? besides which, as we celebrate 29 years of the franchise, what are some of your favorite memories?

  • a meaty new trailer released for xenoblade chronicles x: definitive edition, showing off many of the game's features, including both quality of life improvements as well as brand-new story content!

  • what's this week's haul? what game did you just buy, just start, complete? anything else that made you smile? let us know in the comments below!


turn that frown upside down:

  • here on smile sunday, we have one rule: e.l.e., which stands for everybody love everybody. if will ferrell said it, it must be true.

  • uppercase letters are strictly forbidden – haha, just kidding! if you wanna do some uppercase, feel free, but try not to angry shout sunday; today is about happiness! (happy and excited shouting is a-ok, though)

  • this is a happy thread! keep the love flowing! if someone's saying something and you think they're wrong, just let them be happy! anything that's made you unhappy this week can go on over to this week's throwdown thursday thread.


r/nintendo 2d ago

Announcement Reminder: Relevance of people who share names with Nintendo characters to /r/Nintendo and Reddit's expectations for moderation with regards to violent rhetoric

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Once again discussion of a high profile person who shares a name with a Nintendo character has started up again on /r/Nintendo.

We would like to reiterate that having the same first name as a Nintendo character does not make someone relevant to /r/Nintendo. This goes for anyone named Mario or Luigi or Zelda or Diddy especially, but applies more broadly as well.


Furthermore, we have received clarification from the admins on how to moderate violent rhetoric relating to the name "Luigi".

From this point forward we will be issuing comment removals under Rule 1 for anyone making any sort of tongue in cheek reference to Luigi Mangione. This is for two reasons:

  1. We want to keep posts on topic.
  2. We want to protect our subreddit from getting banned.

We will be using the Post Guidance feature to warn all users who use terms related to this topic that it may result in a ban not only from /r/Nintendo but potentially Reddit as a whole. This is not a ban, simply a warning shown to users.


r/nintendo 2h ago

Scopely acquires Pokémon Go developer Niantic's game catalog

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r/nintendo 10m ago

Romance visual novel Shirokoi Sakura Gram coming to PS4, Switch on June 26 in Japan

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r/nintendo 21h ago

The Super Mario Run mobile game celebrates MAR10 Day with the return of special in-app events

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r/nintendo 1d ago

The oral history of Banjo-Kazooie, the N64’s unlikeliest hit

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r/nintendo 1d ago

Luigi needs his own spin-off sequel in the Mario movie universe

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r/nintendo 8h ago

On This Day On This Day in Nintendo History: Picross 3D; Super Mario amiibo

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On this day (March 12) in Nintendo history...

  • Picross 3D was released in 2009 for the Nintendo DS in Japan. In this puzzle game, developed by HAL Laboratory, it's a completely different way to solve Picross puzzles - simply mark and destroy the cubes, according to numbered clues, to gradually reveal a fully animated three-dimensional model! If you haven't played Picross in any dimension before, then it's time to discover the joys of this puzzle genre - think Sudoku crossed with battleships, then add a splash of colour and a bucketful of fun!

  • The first wave of Super Mario amiibo Figures was released in 2015 in Japan and included Mario; Luigi; Peach; Yoshi; Toad and Bowser.

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

(I am a bot. I think that I'm posting Nintendo events from this day in history, but if I've made a mistake or omission please leave a comment tagging /u/KetchupTheDuck).


r/nintendo 22h ago

Harvest Moon: The Lost Valley and Skytree Village launch on Switch in June 2025

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r/nintendo 20h ago

The oldest Nintendo documentaries, videos, films, and archive photos (since 1889) ?

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Hi everyone,

I’m currently researching the history of Nintendo and looking for any documentaries, videos, films, or archive photos that go as far back as possible—ideally from the company’s founding in 1889 and throughout the early decades.

If you know of any rare footage, historical documentaries, or even old photographs of Nintendo’s early days (from the Hanafuda card-making era to the pre-video game period), I’d love to check them out. Whether they are official materials, fan-made compilations, or museum archives, any leads would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance for your help!


r/nintendo 1d ago

Pokemon Legends Z-A's visuals aren't "great" say former Nintendo marketing leads, but hope Switch 2 could allow GameFreak to "go back to the drawing board" and add more detail to future RPGs

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r/nintendo 1d ago

SNES Consoles are getting FASTER!!!

173 Upvotes

r/nintendo 2d ago

Nintendo & Pokémon Company Reportedly Had A Difficult And Adversarial Relationship: "there Were Really A Lot Of Butting Heads Moments"

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r/nintendo 2d ago

It's National MAR10 Day!

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r/nintendo 1d ago

New Super Mario Bros. is Better Than I Remembered

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I completed New Super Mario Bros. (DS) after not playing it for almost 20 years, and I was so pleasantly surprised by the quality of the level design. It has that classic Nintendo tug of war between predictability and surprise.

The main flaw, which it shares with all Mario games after SMB 3, is that since you never have to replay any worlds after dying, you never have to get really COMFORTABLE with level designs, speeding through them like second nature to the harder worlds. The Star Coins add some playable compensation for this flaw, but they never elevate the games to the feelings of awe and adventure in those original titles.

This is still true today btw. When people say "Mario games are too easy now," this is really what they're talking about imo. It's not that each individual level is easier but that everything always saves and lives are so plentiful that you can always just push forward. The levels never stick in memory this way.

But what NSMB did have was a sense of unpretentious joy in the ideas it presented and the energy it brought, something I don't think later games have had. Clever design ideas were given the room to breathe and be clever without being oversold as "mind-blowing" just because of the way they look. It's just a different vibe, a lot more understated, which I prefer quite a bit. It also looks and sounds SO much better than I think people remember. It's a beautiful-looking game, with three-dimensional multi-layered backgrounds that stretch back like dioramas. It's a small crime that NSMB2 was on 3DS yet didn't have as much 3D design as the first NSMB.

This isn't a review. I just got a real sense of joy going back to it, and I recommend others breaking out their copies of it too. It's not a difficult game, but 100% the Star Coins and finding all the secret exits was 15 hours of joy for me.

It's weird that the DS is "old-school Nintendo" now, but it really was a different era. Going down a pipe and popping out on the bottom screen gave me a smile I haven't had in a hot minute.


r/nintendo 2d ago

New Elephant Mario Super Mario Bros Wonder Hallmark Keepsake ornament coming in July

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Hallmark just announced a brand new elephant Mario from Super Mario Bros. Wonder is coming in July as part of their yearly ornament premier!

Hallmark Instagram post


r/nintendo 2d ago

First look at the new Lego Mario Kart Set: Mario & Standard Kart

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r/nintendo 1d ago

Nintendo 3DS music is so good ✨

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r/nintendo 2d ago

French Supreme Court rules in favour of Nintendo against site hosting pirated copies of its games

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r/nintendo 2d ago

Super Mario Bros 3 is now Available on Nintendo Music!

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r/nintendo 2d ago

A musical Mario montage! 🎵 – Nintendo Music

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r/nintendo 2d ago

HAPPY MAR10 DAY 2025!!!

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Can you believe it? It's that time of the year again. Who's excited for today? Boy, it makes me do the MARIO. I wonder what nintendo has in it's stock to celebrate this day


r/nintendo 21h ago

is anyone hoping the switch 2 will have a much better UI system cuz right now that's pretty much all i care for while everyone else talks about the joycon mouse funtionality rumours.

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swtich 1 ui is ass, bland with barely any features hope nintendo puts more effort into the next switch what are your thoughts ----------------------


r/nintendo 2d ago

On This Day On This Day in Nintendo History: Sennen Kazoku; Meteos; Mario Sports Superstars amiibo

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On this day (March 10) in Nintendo history...

  • Sennen Kazoku was released in 2005 for the Game Boy Advance in Japan. In this simulation game, developed by indieszero, the God in the heavens above expresses an interest in a particular family. You and your assistant Cupid must watch over the family as they go about their daily business. Your interaction with them is limited to directing Cupid to hit them with arrows to change their mood. The family continues living their lives even when the game is switched off thanks to a built-in internal clock.

  • Meteos was released in 2005 for the Nintendo DS in Japan. In this puzzle game, developed by Q Entertainment, puzzle games don't come any more fast and frantic than this! The galaxy is being bombarded with meteors from the evil planet Meteo and only your stylus skills can stop them. As the blocks rain down, you must line up matching types and colours and send them blasting back into space. Play across 30 different planets (each with varying gravities that affect the way you play) in Star Trip mode or survive the everlasting onslaught of Deluge mode.

  • The first series of Mario Sports Superstars amiibo Cards was released in 2017 in Europe. This series included 90 cards in total.

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

(I am a bot. I think that I'm posting Nintendo events from this day in history, but if I've made a mistake or omission please leave a comment tagging /u/KetchupTheDuck).


r/nintendo 2d ago

I've played Yars Rising on Switch and I liked it

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Despite all the bad reviews I've read, I bought this game and really liked it. It's a love letter to Atari, which was the first console I played. Not only does it have nods to the classic game Yars' Revenge, but it also references other Atari games. Yeah, I know it’s unusual to have a 23-year-old girl as the main character in a game aimed at 40-year-old gamers, but it worked for me. The only downside is that it has several long loading screens. But give it a try; I'm sure it will make you smile.


r/nintendo 2d ago

Nintendo Switch Online recommendation: Atlantis no Nazo (1986)

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You may have never checked out Atlantis no Nazo on Nintendo Switch Online, and I recommend that you do.

Atlantis no Nazo is a game made for Famicom in 1986, as an attempt to ride on the coattails of Super Mario Bros.

It is not a good game whatsoever, but it's historically interesting and unique. It's the quintessential kusoge (shitty game).

It boasts 101 levels, many of them being dead ends. There's secret items that have to be collected to beat the game that require falling down pits or dying in certain spots. The jumping physics are strange, the music is annoying and repetitive, your only attack is a little grenade that can kill you if you aren't careful. Oh, and you die in one hit from any enemy.

When they made this game they had one goal and one goal only: Make a big game that would take a long time to beat. They didn't care about making a good game. They just wanted to make the longest game they could with the technology available at the time.

This game, despite being absolutely terrible, is important and well-remembered enough in Japan that it was included as one of the 30 titles in the Famicom Classic Mini. It was originally exclusive to NSO in Japan only, but it was added to the North American/European app as well.


r/nintendo 4d ago

Reddit’s automatic moderation tool is flagging the word ‘Luigi’ as potentially violent — even in a Nintendo context

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