Your 80s and 90s favourites are back as Nintendo reveal a host of new Switch games

Before you played Destiny, Call of Duty and GTA, you probably had a much more wholesome videogaming experience. Instead of hardened army men and gangsters, as a child you may have played as cheery cartoon animals, jumping through colourful landscapes (unless you blagged a copy of Doom or Wolfenstein or Duke Nukem, that is) Nintendo has always tended to stick to its family friendly outlook, and at E3 today announce several big new games for the Switch, featuring a lot of classic Nintendo characters from the 1980s and 1990s.

Mario’s dinosaur pal Yoshi is back in cardboard-styled platformer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx_C9jJ0AlA  

Loveable pink blob Kirby has a new adventure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cc3PAAije0Y  

Less cuddly was the return of Samus in Metroid Prime 4.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFbDmTjS_MI  

We also got a look at the expansion for the brilliant Zelda: Breathe of the Wild.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1GakpHZFpg  

There's also a 'core' Pokemon game (eg, not a cheesy spin-off) coming to the Switch.

https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica/status/874660201625919488  

And of course, we got to see more of Super Mario Odyssey.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGQHQc_3ycE&t=1s   It looks like you’re going to have to get a Switch now…