Pushing Buttons: why swathes of classic games are at risk of being lost forever
In this week's newsletter: Nintendo closing its Wii and 3DS digital storefronts is a reminder that it's become so much harder to replay, and introduce the next generation to, our old favourites
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Welcome back to Pushing Buttons! Apologies for the late arrival of today's newsletter; I was unexpectedly stranded with my family for several days last week because of Storm Eunice. Naturally this was the one time in the past five years that I have travelled without a Nintendo Switch, so I couldn't even turn this into an opportunity to introduce my five-year-old to Mario Kart, a parenting moment I have been looking forward to since he was born. Sadly the last couple of times I've tried to introduce him to games have not gone well. The cute Mario Bros Game and Watch that Nintendo released a while back was thrown across the room in a rage after about 90 seconds (I HATE JUMPING!!!"), and he disliked Pokemon: Let's Go Pikachu so much that it will no for ever be known in our house as No No Pikachu.
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