Welcome to another episode of the Nintendo Powercast.

I'm your host to N64, Josh.

And we're going to talk about the Nintendo Direct.

And my thoughts, my feelings.

And I got to say, I'm honestly feeling pretty good.

I'm glad that I waited a little bit, a little bit to talk about

this because my initial response, I was a little bit, I was a little bit bummed out. But I was

bummed out for the wrong reasons. And it, and it, it, honestly, it took me hanging out on the

Nintendo byte podcast with Nintendo Prime. And it, and it, it, honestly, it took me hanging out on the Nintendo Byte podcast with

Nintendo Prime. And he was like, yo, I'm stoked. I don't, I don't care about what anybody else's

feelings. And that's where I was getting caught up. I was getting caught up in the fact that, like,

I wanted everybody hyped. I can't help that.

Can't help that.

So I am hyped.

I enjoyed this direct.

I initially gave it a B.

I might even give it a little bit higher because I'm very, very excited.

This direct did one of those things that to me is very special. It got me going back and playing the older games. I played Mario Tennis Aces. I played three houses. I'm so bad at it. So bad at it. Aces not so much. Aces I had a great time with. I actually found a handful of little tournaments that I hadn't done yet in Aces against the computer.

And I have one more to do. And that was super fun because it's a ghost town. There's nobody playing. I'd jump back into Aces. I loved Aces. I loved Aces. Still love Aces. And so we're just going to go through this direct. It's starting off right here. If you're watching this either on YouTube or Spotify, I got the video up of the direct.

They're showing all kinds of classic artwork from Super Mario

Brothers, because it is the 40th anniversary. I will say I had high expectations for a lot of this.

That may also have played into why I was a little bit, a little bit bummed out because

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