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Santa Nintendo Sent us an Amazing Box of Gifts

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Nintendo has been so good to our family this year. They have sent us so many fun games this past year and then out of the blue they sent us an amazing gift pack filled with the latest Nintendo products for the holiday season. You can find the latest gift ideas at happyholidays.nintendo.com We are more than happy to test them out and tell you all about them. Opinions are our own.

The gift pack contained a sampling of so many different options for family fun. If you are into STEM then the Nintendo Labo: Vehicle Kit. The family that smashes together stays together with the all new Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. There are so many amazing characters to pick as fighters in this game. And speaking of characters, your favorite Nintendo characters are all together having a party in Super Mario Party for the Nintendo Switch. And for those aspiring Pokemon trainers in your family there is the all new Pokémon: Let’s Go, Eevee! + Poké Ball Plus Pack. The coolest thing about this game is that the players can use the Poké ball for real world game play.

The gift box also included a copy of the Super Mario Kart Monopoly, a Super Mario Kart Christmas ornament and even some Christmas papercrafts. And that wasn’t all, we even received a Nintendo eShop $20 gift card which I’ll be using toward either Mario Kart 8 so I can use the steering wheel and gas pedal from the Nintendo Labo: Vehicle Kit or maybe the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Fighters Pass so I can unlock additional DLC levels and fighters. I opened the box myself early and then resealed it so that I could reopen with the kids. They were thrilled as you can see in the video below.

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We’ve Got The The Party House – The Super Mario Party (House)

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Trike Harder with Super Mario Party

The party house, you know the one, the place where all the kids want to hang out. I would love to be that house, have a great big family room and invite a bunch of kids over to play all sorts of fun party games. Well, we do not have that yet. What we do have is a copy of the latest in the line of Mario Party games. We were given a copy of Super Mario Party for the Nintendo Switch. We were also given two brand new Radio Flyer tricycles, but more on that later.

There are so many minigames in Super Mario Party that you cannot possibly play all of them in a single session. I like this because that means that each time you play you have an almost guaranteed chance to play something new. There are over 80 new minigames in this one game. Not only that but there are many modes for play. In addition to everyone playing on one system with four joycons you can pair up two systems and play that way. Double the play screens. But that is not all, you can now use Nintendo Switch Online service to play super Mario Party online. So, I guess we really do not need to have that giant party house, we can bring the party anywhere that we go!

Andrew and I did a livestream of the game the other day and had a great time. You can see many of the different minigames in this video.

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