Hi, my name is Marc Bridie. I’m a native Texan (USA) and 56-years-old.
I started gaming in the 70s in arcades. Then in the early 80s I got the Atari 2600 and spent may hours playing that. In the mid 80s I got a Nintendo Entertainment System and have been a Nintendo fan ever since.
In the 90s, I did play quite a few Commodore 64 and Amiga games. And in the late 90s I moved into PC games. Diablo was my favorite, then Starcraft and World of Warcraft and so on. However, I never stopped playing Nintendo games. I have owned all of the consoles and all of the handheld models.
For years the 3DS never left my side, and now I own a Switch and am loving it! There’s a nice story how I came to own a Switch:
My youngest attended a Nintendo event this past summer at a Walmart. They had a game truck there demoing Switch games and he filled out a form to win a Switch. Several weeks later, Nintendo e-mailed him that he had won! He got a Switch, three games (Mario Odyssey, Mario Kart and Tennis Aces) and the Labo. He gave the Switch to me (ok I am buying it from him).
My favorite genre is RPGs but I also enjoy sports games and strategy games.
I also manage a Houston 3DS/Switch Meetup group on Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/groups/Houston3DS/. Over five years ago, several of us were meeting at a local mall to play multi-player 3DS games together and we created a Facebook group to hopefully find other local Nintendo handheld fans. Since then, we meetup about once a month to get together and play, it is a lot of fun.
It is nice to meet you all and I hope you enjoy my reviews.
Welcome Marc!
Cool your son won a Switch with games! Very Lucky!!
I love the Switch and rpg’s to. Have you played Xenoblade? (one of my favorites)
Good luck with your reviews!
Hi Ronja, yeah it was very lucky! I would probably still be Switch-less if he hadn’t won.
No, haven’t played that yet. That game in particular sure gets mixed reviews.
Thanks, I’ll need it!!
Welcome Marc! Nice story there about your son and the Switch.
Welcome! I’ve thought about starting a meetup group for the 3DS. Would be a nice way to get Streetpasses.
Welcome to the team Marc! – Nice to see another Nintendo fan on here 😀
Your son winning a Switch is brilliant luck (for you as well as him it seems 😛 ), such a great prize! 😀 I won Top Spin 2 on DS from a Nintendo magazine years ago; the case was damaged, the congrats was on (what looked to be) scrap paper, and the game wasn’t great – but winning felt brilliant lol.
Look forward to seeing your future articles and reviews 😀
Hey Marc, welcome aboard! Your son winning a Switch is pretty awesome- I’m never that lucky, haha! I love Nintendo too, though I own a wide variety of consoles. 🙂