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This is awesome, I'm trying to get rid of Lego but this will be a day one buy if it's less than £50

@JonComms really interesting video! Definitely going to pick some of these up before the eshop shuts down.

My heart skipped a beat when you flipped that Wii U pad at the end though 😂, didn't realise such an informative video would get so white knuckle towards the end!

We have a list going in the forum of games to get before these eShops close down, I might add some of these into a special section in it

@Kimimi I don't think you mentioned whether you opened up all the consoles and controllers to clean the plastic inside and the circuit boards. If you didn't then I strongly suggest you do because if there is mould on the outside then there will undoubtedly be mould on the inside too.

Use 90+% isopropyl alcohol and soft towels and ear buds (q-tips) to clean the circuit boards. You'll get a feel for what tool is best for which bit of the circuit board. You can buy a bottle off Amazon fairly cheaply

I'd spray a surface spray that contains bleach on to a paper towel and run it up and down the cables too. Black cables hide grime well. Hold the cable by the end of the actual cable and not the connector as you'll be holding it quite tightly and you don't want to rip the connector off.

And nobody should use those green washing up pads on the exterior of the console because they will scratch the plastic up. But they can be used for removing rust from the metal RF shielding. Mix some bicarbonate of soda with water until it's a kind of sloppy thick paste and go to town on that shielding. Rinse it off, dry and reassemble! The shielding can be sharp on the edges though so be careful, I ended up with sliced up hands the first time I did it

Best of luck with your consoles! I've only said all this because I have left some consoles in damp cold areas and had to deal with similar issues

@Peteykins nice! Yeah I kind of regret not buying a lot of the top GameCube games when I was a teenager because they are so expensive now! I think the last GC game I bought was MGS The Twin Snakes a few years back for around £40. I had to eventually play the remake though because I love the MGS series!

That's awesome, I had no idea game boy camera was capable of stuff like this.

I spent most of my time playing Ball with my dad's face on the character 😅. That and printing out pictures

I wish they'd do an upscaled port of Billy Hatcher and the giant egg. I rented that game from blockbuster and it weren't too bad! I'd buy a remaster at a reasonable price

She gets paid by Nintendo to promote Animal Crossing. Her Instagram posts often say "advertisement" or "sponsored content" when they are about AC

The only FTSE I like to play is under the dinner table!

@Thwomp_Stomper cheers for letting me know. Maybe it's different in the states, someone else from the UK has replied and said shipping has to be paid for each individual reward over here. Thanks anyway

@1UP_MARIO ah that's a shame, cheers for letting me know! I'd be more happy to get some of the rewards if each one didn't cost £6.80 or whatever it is

Nice review, looks really interesting. Especially the career mode that deals with the shoot aspects of wrestling and not just the kayfabe moments. If it's a very reasonable price then I might pick it up

I think this is quite a good reward actually, I'd probably pay the shipping for this so i can have it for when Mario kart live eventually ends up at a reasonable price.

Too bad most of my platinum points have expired. Does anyone know if you can redeem multiple rewards and pay shipping only once?

I like that red and white one that looks like a Campino sweet

I'd pick it up if it was sold separately for sure. I already have Mario 3d world on Wii U so I won't double dip unless it's <£10. To be honest, I wasn't the biggest fan of 3d world, it was a bit boring and I always felt I was missing some of the intended experience by playing it alone and I never finished it. I enjoyed 3D Land though and need to go back and finish world at some point

I wish I picked up WarioWare Touched for 3ds when my Nintendo first launched. I didn't get it because I already have the cartridge on DS and I thought it was going to be the first in a long line of games available for platinum points. Alas, not many major games became available this way and while I did get the absolutely brilliant Twilight Princess Picross, I lament not having a digital copy of WarioWare Touched on my 3ds.

This would be way funnier if Bradley Walsh was presenting. He had an interesting conversation with a contestant about dressing up as his Dr Who character at a comic con....I'll leave you to search for it on YouTube 😂

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@nessisonett I think this one is vegeta actually 😂

Mario and Luigi are...real? And they play Sega?

Good on her for learning how to take it on the chin. She did good work in Zelda so it is sad that her takeaway from it mentions failures in her work. It's just about taking criticism on a case by case basis. Of course it really is very difficult to separate legitimate and constructive criticism from unhelpful and often echoed nastiness.

I guess Triple H will be sad about this

I just pulled all my old ones out of the loft, hoping to make some dollar on eBay to see me through the rest of the pandemic

Damn that's actually a decent update, especially the extra connectivity for getting screenshots off the console. Almost makes me feel bad for still wanting folders so I can bung all them free qubic games into one!

All stars for me, I know you mentioned issues in one of your write ups on it but I never noticed them because it was the only version I had played for many years!

@Liam_Doolan thanks for the shout out in the article! 🤩 I'll add you to the tag list in the forum thread, it normally gets copy and pasted into a new post when there is a fair batch of free games available

So you can still download the currently uploaded courses from the net? Or can you just play the ones you have downloaded already?

I bought something rubbish and similar when I was younger, a Blaze TV tuner for the game boy advance, but I connected my GameCube to it with the AV cables and played it on the GBA screen! Which I found funny because it was basically the opposite of connecting a GBA to the controller port

@AlienigenX you are not! I'd love to get a (physical) trilogy release of those games! Would be good if they threw in an adapted version of the Zelda game and watch too so modern audiences can have access to all the hard to find Zelda releases. Why not adapt and port the BSX games too?

I didn't get a lot of them because I already have all the 3d versions on 3ds, Virtua racing, ichidant r, Herzog zwei, phantasy Star and g-loc are the only ones I bought in the sales.

I really wish they'd expanded and released more uncommon arcade titles like SegaSonic specifically

Why not bring back the sonic advance games as well while they're at it?

It's crazy to imagine that Switch piracy is so rampant, I've never met somebody with a pirated switch game. It's a far cry from buying bags of burned PSX and Dreamcast games down Catford Market in the old days! I guess like most things these days, it's all online and less visible to me as I only visit like 5 websites regularly!

@TG16_IS_BAE digital picross games normally have a decent tutorial that stretches over the first few puzzles, pixel puzzle collection is a free Konami themed one on smartphones (and it has great music), might be worth checking it out if you are interested. Be warned that they are super addictive if it does manage to get you hooked!

When's the Sega picross coming out?! I been looking forward to that for ages!

Looks good! I've never played it but I have all their previous remasters on switch so I'm looking forward to this one. They're great for making N64 games more accessible

@rjejr oh crap I had no idea helstrom was even out yet! It's TV MCU so I'll definitely be watching it at some point, I still haven't watched Jessica Jones 3, cloak and dagger 2, runaways 3 and agents of shield 6+7 so I'm pretty behind.

I thought a set of horror-ish shows sounded like a good idea even though they canned all of them except helstrom. I would've really liked to see more of the Robbie Reyes (I think that's his name?) ghost rider because I thought he was really good in shield.

I can't believe they announced a blade movie too, it seems like a really awkward film to make considering how good blade 1+2 were and also how snipes basically is blade. I heard he was in talks with Marvel while he was still in prison for tax evasion but I doubt they'd bring him back to play Blade himself and I'd rather they didn't incorporate the original movies into the MCU if they have to keep Trinity too.

I didn't know there was a difference between on demand and streaming. I think our TV channels offered on demand when the whole thing first came about but it was basically just streaming and I don't think they use the OD terminology now at all.

I'll probably end up torrenting Helstrom if it takes ages to come out. I usually just watch stuff on Now TV or Netflix but sometimes they play silly buggers with limited time availability or massive waits for American TV. Usually because no UK channel has picked it up or god forbid a terrestrial channel picks it up and it airs like a year later which really messes up crossovers - Crisis on Infinite Earths was missing it's Batwoman episode for like half a year so unfortunately torrenting was the only way to watch it all.

It happens with non superhero stuff too like the various Chicago series had a crossover but one episode was missing because it was being aired by a terrestrial TV channel many months later!

I used to love worms 2, would love a rerelease of that game!

@rjejr Nice! I'm an Italian/Irish Londoner though apart from having accents flying around at family gatherings I wouldn't say I feel very Irish or italian (I just feel like me but i don't really get into existential crises about my background to be honest lol). We still enjoy mob films and tv though, I've definitely been to a few events that are like the wedding scene in the godfather but I'm guessing there were no un-refusable favours being asked of the host!

Yeah I tend to gravitate toward recurring elements when choosing my next show or film, the many characters that Terry O'Quinn plays in the X files related shows had me hankering for some Lost but I've managed to hold off because I really fancied watching Enterprise again because I hadn't watched it in about ten years.

I think it used to just be BBC 1 and maybe BBC 2 way before my time but they added ITV and Channel 4. I actually remember when Channel 5 came out and it used to have really rubbish reception when it first started. But yeah that was basically it for terrestrial TV until digital came along and I think they switched off most of the analog transceivers over here in 2012.

Nah we don't have Sling but that sounds a bit like NowTV which is broken up into different packages for TV (which has the Arrowverse when it comes out except black lightning), film, sports, kids TV and reality TV (not the good kitchen nightmares kind, more like the vapid Kardashians style)

Swamp thing is pretty good actually, some brilliant actors who mostly seem to pull off that Louisiana accent though I still don't think I'll be convinced to try that Toitle soup!

@rjejr haha I think coronavirus will be the last of your worries after watching legion! All the streaming services are so confusing and expensive over here compared to normal TV in the old days. We basically have to pay a TV license for "free" TV anyway which gets a load of channels but we could pay extra for Sky or some other satellite/cable service (though I think satellite was the preferred method here, I don't think cable had that much uptake when it came out). In comparison, Prime, Netflix, Disney+, NowTV (a purely streamed version of Sky) as well as the TV license which is required for watching anything "live" on any streaming service costs a bomb. It is possible to not pay the TV license but I understand that the BBC sends their contracted heavies around your house to root through your mail and force entry to catch you in the act of watching live TV, well according to YouTube videos anyway lol

Nah I haven't seen The Passage, that reminds me of another old show I watched for the first time recently called harsh realm that basically got canned while they were filming their 9th episode and all the cast and crew found out but finished the episode like pros anyway.

I mainly only get time for superhero stuff these days but only because they make so much of it. I did watch Westworld though because it was brilliant and I love the movie. We also rewatched X Files, Millennium and The Lone Gunmen during lock down (Harsh Realm was part of this marathon because it is very loosely linked to those three series).

Otherwise I normally end up watching random shows/movies at night on my phone to help me get to sleep. I watched Space force and the first series of Dark Side of the Ring like that recently. I might start watching the Sopranos all the way through for the first time soon because I recently rewatched Analyse This and Analyse That and some bits of it reminded me of what I had seen of The Sopranos so I might give it a go

@rjejr haha nice, I've never watched stranger things either. Was kinda waiting for a scary feeling night to watch it but never got around to it.

There's a star trek thread over on PushSquare called Ten Forward it you ever want to chat Trek! I'm currently doing a chronological rewatch which means I won't get to discovery season 3 until after I've watched Picard (which I also haven't seen yet) and I'm halfway through TOS so it'll be a while before I join in on any convos to do with those two shows.

Doom Patrol was wicked, one of the best DC shows I thought though I haven't seen season 2 yet. Titans is a bit of a mixed bag but mostly enjoyable, Donna is my favourite character so we will see how that goes in season 3!

My favourite seasons of Netflix are Jessica Jones 1, Iron First 2, Luke Cage 2, both Punishers and most of Daredevil (I think JJ season 1 was the best out of that lot though - I have an old friend who's no longer my friend who is a lot like the purple man in his persuasive manipulation so it really resonated with me)

The Gifted is good if you have a nostalgia for turn of the millennium young adult TV shows like The Tribe or Dark Angel, in fact i'd say it was a cross between the two in style and execution, but I really like it despite how dated it feels.

The Runaways is seriously fun off the wall sci fi with fun characters and one of my favourite theme tunes. Might be a shame to miss out on it without checking it out for yourself but i personally think it is one of the best Marvel shows that's been on!

Oh yeah I forgot to say that Legion is excellent but takes some mental fortitude to get through. It's well worth it though

@rjejr nice, surely he doesn't use his nasal comic booky captain cold voice though? I think prison break is on Netflix over here in the UK. cloak and dagger is really good too but I've only seen the first season, I definitely prefer the runaways out of the two teen marvel shows though! It definitely feels weird being an older fan into the teen shows but I guess it's OK because it's marvel and was tangentially related to the MCU, at least it was before they canned all the Netflix and Hulu stuff in favour of their movie spin offs

@rjejr flash quickly became my least favourite show and Dibbers and Sue were the only ones really holding it up for me. LoT is just brilliant though and with Supergirl coming to an end there's not much going for the Arrowverse at the moment apart from LoT, I've been considering prison break too because Wentworth Miller is so good as Captain Cold!

@rjejr cheers for that! Yeah he is my favourite character in the flash show so I'm gutted he won't be back, they'll have to get somebody equally as funny or heartwarming for the next season to lighten the tone enough for me to keep watching.

@rjejr ah fair enough! Yeah I think i spend too much time on these sites but NL, PS and PX are basically the only websites I go to these days!

I can't work out why I feel somewhat positively about this 3 game system when I also feel like the game gear micro is a bit of a rip off, maybe this one just has cool extras or maybe just because there isn't 5 variants when there could have just been one.

Mine arrived just now, I wonder if I should get a screen protector for it, I normally do for handhelds but I didn't even think about it for this one because it's more of a collectable I guess

Nice to get a Freeby, I picked up paratopic based on the NL review, I've yet to get around to it though!

@rjejr cheers for that! Just set it to download! please let us all know if you spot something like that again in the future, there's a thread in the forum for sharing info, it says US eshop but anything gets posted there even if it is contingent on owning another game https://www.nintendolife.com/forums/nintendo-switch/psa_free_games_right_now_on_us_eshop?start=40

@AG_Awesome it says 100% off if you own space pioneer on the product page, I think that was given out in a previous promotion

Ah nice, yeah I thought about doing the wishlist thing! Doom 1 2 3 and 64 normally go on sale for half price which ain't too bad. I've only played Turok 1 and it is brilliant, need to get around to Turok 2 though!

I just played through Talos Principle and it's DLC and it was a really really good game so I'd be interested in trying these out

@Dm9982 nice, I didn't know there were that many on switch and I've not heard of gibbous, I'll look into it but sadly covid has hit hard financially so I probably won't be buying anything new! I've been quite obsessed with the old PC/N64 shooters on Switch though like the Dooms, Duke Nukem, the Turoks and the new version of Strife looks good!

@Dm9982 yeah they were pretty good! It seemed like a no brainer to me to have point and click games on the Wii so I tried to pick up as many as I could that were reasonably priced at the time, I can't remember if had Sam and max season 2, I feel like I've played it but I don't remember owning it or selling it

@Dm9982 cheers! Yeah it was a good game with the pointer controls, I sold it as a carefully curated "Telltale bundle" with 3 of their licensed CSI games and it sold for about £3 😂