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Writing the Book on Nintendo + the Top 10 Most Underrated Nintendo Games (with Keza MacDonald)

The Back Page · February 6, 2026

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That feels very nostalgic now. Agreed. This is widely available now as well in a way it just simply wasn't even like a year ago. So that's, that's really cool. 100% Yeah, like a lot of these games, you would have to go to insane lengths. So like digging through bargain bins in Japanese retro game stores to find and now you can just play them on Switch online. All right, Pac-Man versus. Do you are you guys familiar with Pac-Man versus Dr. Spotted? This made your main list as well right in the book. Yeah, because I was shocked to see that but excited, you know, it's a Miyamoto design Pac-Man game. And it's exactly as good as that suggests. But it's a it made use of the Game Boy Advance and GameCube connectivity in that three of you would be on little screens as the ghosts and then one of you was Pac-Man on the big screen, or the other way around one of you is Pac-Man on the on the little screen and the rest of you were the ghost on the big screen. And it's just a little piece

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... played the GameCube version on Nintendo Switch's online service. Great game. It's just it's so weird. It's a lovely little game. And I think it kind of because it isn't you know, it was a classic seven out of 10 at the time. But I think in retrospect, it's actually really That feels very nostalgic now. Agreed. This is widely available now as well in a way it just simply wasn't even like a year ago. So that's, that's really cool. 100% Yeah, like a lot of these games, you would have to go to insane lengths. So like digging through bargain bins in Japanese retro game stores to find and now you can just play them on Switch online. All right, Pac-Man versus. Do you are you guys familiar with Pac-Man versus Dr. Spotted? This made your main list as well right in the book. Yeah, because I was shocked to see that but excited, you know, it's a Miyamoto design Pac-Man game. And it's exactly as good as that suggests. But it's a it made use of the Game Boy Advance and GameCube connectivity in that three of you would be on little screens as the ghosts and then one of you was Pac-Man on the big screen, or the other way around one of you is Pac-Man on the on the little screen and the rest of you were the ghost on the big screen. And it's just a little piece classic. Such a fun multiplayer game. It's just it's just great. I remember when the Wii U came out, my stepson was about 10. And we had about six little boys playing Mario ...

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