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Believe it or not, we have a 'Week of Nintendo Love' feature from none other than Reggie Fils-Aime! The man that needs absolutely no introduction, even though I've already spent time doing that! I'm going to let the head honcho get down to business and share his love of Big N with you guys.

Huge thanks to everyone at/involved with Nintendo for putting this together. Of course, a big thanks to Reggie as well!

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The following feature was written by Reggie Fils-Aime

This year marks my tenth anniversary at Nintendo, and people say, ‘Wow—you’ve been with Nintendo for a decade!’

Wrong—I’ve been ‘with’ them a lot longer than that. After all the money I’d spent over the years on Nintendo products, the least they could have done was hire me!

When my oldest son was six, we both played The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, on separate files. One night, long after everyone else had gone to bed, I stayed up into the wee hours trying to figure out how to avoid all the flying Firebats and get the best of Ganon in that final battle. No luck—but I spent most of the next day at work figuring out my plan of attack. So I sped home, and rushed through the door…only to hear my son yelling with delight. Yep—he had opened my file and just finished off Ganon as I arrived. I think that moment defines the term ‘mixed emotions’.

So, fast forward a couple years and this time it’s my second son, at the ripe old age of four, screaming with joy as he finished the story mode in Street Fighter II: The World Warrior. I snapped a picture, all grins and thumbs up—and sent it off to Nintendo Power. I mean, he was four—how could they not love this? Years later, when I got to Nintendo, I asked the Nintendo Power publisher … the same one that would have been there in the mid-nineties, if he knew why the picture never ran. For some odd reason, he didn’t remember it. Maybe it got lost in the mail.

Well, by the time my boys were older and we got deep into three-person multi-player on Goldeneye 007, I was just there for window dressing. All they really cared about was blasting each other. Of course, that gave me time to occasionally get the Golden Gun—and THAT was the thing that would finally get them to think about Dad.

And in the interest of full disclosure, I guess I should also mention that my daughter has also enjoyed her time schooling me on Mario Kart … everything from Double Dash to Mario Kart 7.

So, despite the incredible amount of hours I spent by myself in the old days with Final Fantasy II and Chrono Trigger and Secret of Mana, I guess the biggest reason I love Nintendo is the same one a lot of people mention—the way it’s helped connect me with my family.

Happy holiday gaming everyone!