So, are you going to Switch?
What? My gas and electricity supplier? Can’t really be bothered.
I’m talking about your games console.
It’s not really my console. I get so soundly beaten by the kids that they don’t consider me worth playing with.
This one might appeal to your taste for nostalgia.
Do I have one?
Either that or a failure to embrace the new.
Please tell me they are re-releasing the classic Atari console.
Sadly not.
Is Binatone back? Did you have one of those? Football, tennis, squash. Two-player option. What more could you ask? It wasn’t quite Fifa 17, I admit. The graphics weren’t up to much. More like little white sticks and you could only play two-a-side, but on the top speed it was great.
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No Atari. No 1970s Binatone. But Nintendo has announced details of its new console, the Switch.
We had a Wii U but it got supplanted by X-Station or a PlayBox or whatever they’re called.
That’s been the problem for Nintendo. The Switch, out in March, is its big plan to reassert itself in the market. It’s a tablet computer that has a “Joy-Con” controller that clips on the side, so you can play games wherever you want on the touch-sensitive screen. Or you can clip the machine into a dock and play on your TV.
Mario?
Yes, the mustachioed plumber is back. They are releasing Super Mario Odyssey later this year.
Will it be as much fun as it was on my Game Boy?
Almost certainly not.
I spent hours on that game. Don’t tell my kids. That would be ammunition for a thousand rows about screen time.
