10 Things Only Hardcore Nintendo Fans Will Understand

4. You Can Pinpoint Specific Details About Nintendo's Past

Be it the different leadership styles of Yamauchi versus Iwata or the entire production history of Miyamoto, you€™re buffed up on your Nintendo history and love discussing its present and future.

You can pinpoint the exact differences between The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time across the Nintendo 64 and 3DS, reel off lists of releases and their impact(s) upon regional markets, and you€™re able to specifically state the year Nintendo started - plus its many business practices from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, before settling on the absurd gaming success it€™s known for today.

You probably own a copy of Hyrule Historia and had a subscription to at least one Nintendo magazine as a child or teenager, and your eyes light up every time Reggie Fils-Aime gives an interview or presentation. Our collective body, is most definitely ready.

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Bryan Langley’s first console was the Super Nintendo and he hasn’t stopped using his opposable thumbs since. He is based in Bristol, UK and is still searchin' for them glory days he never had.