Articles - Hanafuda Report

November 3, 2025

Former Nintendo employees reveal what it took to launch the NES in America

A panel at the recent Portland Retro Gaming Expo has celebrated the 40th anniversary of the U.S. Nintendo Entertainment System…

October 31, 2025

A new coffee table book celebrating Nintendo’s much-loved 8-bit home console is on the way. This upcoming 200+ page publication…

October 31, 2025

GameCube classic Luigi’s Mansion was recently added to the Nintendo Switch Online library — just in time for Halloween. Here’s the…

October 29, 2025

Nintendo has announced plans to release the soundtrack from 2017’s The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild on vinyl.…

October 27, 2025

I was thrilled to launch both Hanafuda Report and Hanafuda Club yesterday. The response so far has been so great.…

October 25, 2025

After nine years, pretty much to the day, Switch Weekly is no more. The newsletter now has a new name,…

October 15, 2025

Pokemon Legends Z-A is out now for the Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2. When the reviews dropped I read…

October 9, 2025

Mario & Wario is one of those titles that I tend to confuse with the likes of Yoshi’s Cookie and…

October 7, 2025

Dawnfolk is available now on the Nintendo Switch. It’s a dark, town building experience, but unlike traditional city-sims like Cities:…

September 18, 2025

During another of my weekly crawls through the always sizeable list of upcoming eShop releases, I happened upon Platypus Reclayed…

September 13, 2025

Here’s a video, originally shared at overkill, in which I test the updated, and crucially more secure Killswitch case for…

July 9, 2025

The absence of a meaty single-player experience at the launch of Switch 2 made me turn to the 2023 Zelda…