Per Schneider has been at IGN since the beginning. He's been an editor, general manager, publisher,

game reviewer, internet famous reaction guy. He's lived in Japan. He's helped cover Nintendo games

and consoles for decades. And he's a regular on NBC, our weekly Nintendo show here at IGN.

He's also been here for nearly every Nintendo console launch. And heading into the launch of the

Nintendo Switch

too, I figured this is the perfect time to sit down and talk to my old friend about his history.

Ladies and gentlemen, Perr Schneider.

Nice to see you, Brian. Good to see you too. In the same space, too. I know, we're in a very

formal setting together. So I've known you for, what, 16, but IGN has been around for what, 20, 28 years?

Nobody can tell.

People can't even tell anymore.

How did you get started becoming an Nintendo fan?

What was the thing that said in your brain, like this company is making cool stuff,

I love them.

Funny enough, I'm not.

I wasn't a Nintendo guy originally. I didn't own an NES.

So, you know, I was born in 1971. And so the consoles of my generation were, you know, the Atari VCS.

And then in Europe, everything shifted to home computers. So Commodore 64 was the one that almost everybody owned.

I owned the Atari 600 XL with RAM expansion at 64K of RAM.

That's you can see like there's like three extra pixels you can see on Indiana Jones's hat.

But it had the best version of Pitfall too.

Anyway, so after that generation, when I went to college,

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