Hello! Five years ago I was lucky enough to [win a copy of Breath of the Wild Special Edition](https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/7q6ziw/op_delivered_thank_you_so_much_uheartshotqq/) right here on /r/NintendoSwitch! Now that Tears of the Kingdom is here, I really wanted to pay it forward with a similar giveaway.
* Comment with your favorite Nintendo video game memory to enter
* One comment per person
* Winner will be chosen randomly via [Reddit Raffler](https://www.redditraffler.com/raffles/new)
* Accounts must be at least two weeks old to win
* Winner will be chosen tomorrow 5/18 around noon EDT
* Will be shipped out ASAP, by the end of this week
* US only, sorry! It’s big and shipping will already be $$
**[Proof!](https://imgur.com/fCzVGvn)**
I think that’s it! Good luck!
by romanticheart
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Original Metroid on NES, stunned when Samus was revealed at the end.
Links’s Awakening on the Gameboy. Something about it struck a chord. Played the original multiple times. The Switch remaster was done really well. Highly recommend.
My favorite Nintendo memory is coming home from Kindergarten and rushing to sit in front of the TV to play Metroid, Super Mario Bros., and Zelda. I’m not sure I knew everything I was doing but it was my most formative years and sticks with me to this day.
My favorite Nintendo memory would probably be wind bombing for the first time
My parents got us a NES for Christmas. We all took turns playing Mario Bros. Even though I am 4yrs younger than my brother, I was the 1st one to beat level 1-1. This was the moment video games changed my life. Thanks for doing this giveaway.
Playing Metroid 2 for the first time when I was really young with the help of my older brother, probably the first game I have a full recollection of actually completing as a kid.
Getting my first GBC with Pokemon Blue and choosing Charizard as my first Pokemon.
Buying a switch to play BOTW and Mario Odyssey but ending up playing 150 hours of Stardew Valley in the first month
When botw opened up from the great plateau area
Staying up late in my friends basement playing smash brothers during middle school sleepovers. Pure joy
First time attacking the cuccoos in ocarina of time and being swarmed. Fun times
My favorite memory is getting a Gameboy Advance SP along with Super Mario Advance on my fifth birthday. I remember going to Kmart (yes that old lol) and shopping around the electronic section with my mom. There were so many games to choose from, as well as different colors for the GBA SP (ended up sticking with the grey model). On our way home we stopped by the grocery store and I was so eager to play. Once we got back in our car she handed me the system and I unboxed it at that moment. I showed my siblings (older and youngest) and was filled with pure joy. Ever since then I’ve grown to enjoy Nintendo handhelds and consoles.
First time playing Super Mario Bros. 3… I wanted a Tanuki suit soooo bad. And I love getting to the chest picking spots. Probably why I love slot machines now that I’m older lol.
Favorite Nintendo Memory was getting my DS. First time buying a handheld for myself rather than getting it as a gift.
It’s hard to pick but probably playing Animal Crossing or Mario Kart with my boyfriend. Or him cheering me on for defeating bosses in BotW or Link’s Awakening lol. We always have a lot of fun.
Playing Super Mario 64 as a kid with my dad
Favorite Nintendo memory would probably be my mother staying up late when I was a kid to help me get further in Pokémon yellow after I went to bed. I’d be stuck at a tough part like Rock Tunnel and the next day I’d be outside of it, meaning she navigated through it without seeing because she didn’t understand the game mechanics at all.
My favorite Nintendo gaming memory is flying around with chickens in Kakariko Village in OoT. Nothing more peaceful than hearing that squawking bird!
Hiding some guide books in my classroom desk was also pretty legit– get plans made for the next piece of heart before you get home from school!
My favorite Nintendo memory… that’s a tough one, but right now the first thing that comes to mind is the “Everyone Is Here!” reveal for Smash Ultimate. I felt anything was possible when they revealed Cloud, but even in my wildest dreams I wouldn’t have images such a reveal, and to top it off with Ridley was *chef’s kiss*
My favorite memory would have to be playing through Metroid prime in my GameCube. I went through some extensive childhood trauma, so my parents brought me to therapist. The first five sessions or so, I wouldn’t speak one word, that is until I showed up on week and she had a GameCube with a stack of games. I put Metroid prime in, and she sat with me for thirty minutes of the hour long session, every week for months, until I beat it. The other thirty minutes of each session, I began to open up and trust her. Needless to say, my parents went out and bought me a GameCube.
I almost crapped my pants a couple months ago when Nintendo shadow dropped the Remaster. Don’t elect me for the sad story, I’ll just tell you to give it to someone else, really. I actually am just sitting here smiling thinking about those sessions in my lunch break and it’s wonderful.
Legend of Zelda mining cap best memory ever
Pikmin 2 on the Wii, finishing a cave with just 2 Pikmin left
My favorite memory has to be going to Costco with my parents to get pizza for lunch but also walking out with a Nintendo Wii, Mario Kart, and a Wii Wheel. Man, those were the good days!
My favorite Nintendo memory would be playing Pokemon Yellow on the way to Disneyland. It was my favorite game of that generation and having a glimpse of what the potential for portable gaming was, especially at the time, was meaningful to me and still is today with the Switch.
Coming home from school on Friday to watch the Zelda cartoon that would air those days during the Super Mario Bros. Super Show and then having my best friend over to stay up late playing Legends of Zelda and Adventures of Link on NES.
Hm… favorite Nintendo memory? There’s so many, but I think the one that stands out the most is playing the GameCube with my older sister. It was one of the few instances as kids when we did something together/cooperatively, and it was always so fun.
I spent so many hours playing on my N64 playing Star Fox 64 and 1080 Snowboarding. They were the only games I had and I got real good at them. My favorite memories were teaching my cousin how to play 1080 so we could play together and he’d actually be good at it. So much fun.
Seeing Mario 64 for the first time at the gaming kiosk in Target. Graphics blew my mind.
Having to call the Nintendo hotline with my mom in the ‘90’s to beat a puzzle in A Link to The Past.
My favorite memory is fishing with my dad in animal crossing. Growing up, he thought video games were silly and a waste of time for kids so I never had a console growing up. Many decades later: I bought myself a switch, he came over to watch me play one day and asked if he could try fishing. From then on, it’s a father daughter activity that we do together ☺️
Thanks for hosting this, it’s very generous of you to want to pay it forward!
Favorite Nintendo memory is after watching my dad play banjo and kazooie on N64 for months, he taught me how to play. I was 4 or 5 and incredibly bad but i had so much fun and he was was so patient with me. He’s take me to blockbuster and let me choose different n64 games to rent. It was our daddy daughter time. After he passed I didn’t feel up to playing videogames as much but when the switch added the n64 emulator and banjo and kazooie. I felt like there was a little piece of him still with me.
Pokémon Sapphire on my glacier blue gameboy advance. I was only allowed 30 mins a night after finishing hw, but with the light attachment I would stay up late after the parents were asleep, training up my Torchic. My first ever video game <3
Playing Ocarina of Time with my dad.
My parents got us an original NES for whenever I was about 6 or so.
We had that Top Gun game that was fun, but it was hard as hell to land on the aircraft carrier. My dad was a pilot and had some of his pilot friends over one night and he hijacked the game. One after another they all crashed and burned. Nobody could land on that damn carrier.
6 year old me steps up and nails it. First try. I put all those suckers in their place. My dad asked me to teach him and I talked him through it until he landed it. We high-fived and his friends had a good hoot, but we never mentioned a word about it since.
Smash cut to 10 years later. I’m 16 years old and my dad is teaching me how to fly. We go a bit out of town and do a few touch and goes on a small, empty airstrip about 30 miles south of Fort Worth.
He tells me to bring it to a full stop on the runway before takeoff. As soon as I get lined up on the centerline, he pops open his door and looks me right in the eye and winks.
“It’s time. You’re ready.”
Every pilot knows he can only mean one thing. He doesn’t even need to say the words. It’s time for my first solo flight.
My eyes open wide and my hands tense up. He knows that I’m nervous as all hell. He grabs a handheld radio from his flight bag.
“I’ll be right here talking you through it just like whenever we were playing Top Gun that one night.”
It caught me so much by surprise, that it calmed me down. I never knew how much those moments meant to him.
I took off, swung around the pattern and came right back down to pick him up at the end of the runway where I dropped him off.
Miss ya, dad.