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MAKE THE SWITCH

Dear Retro Gamer,

Have you considered putting Nintendo’s Switch on the cover of ? Before you laugh me out of the room, have a think about the sheer amount of retro-based content which is available on Nintendo’s machine and it all begins to make a lot of sense. Virtually all the Neo Geo AES library is available on the system, and there is a large number of other arcade games to buy, too, from Data East classics to those from Nintendo. And then, of course, there are the large number of compilations you can buy for the

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