Nintendo Switch is the ultimate family gaming console. It has the flexibility to take anywhere your family goes, and the versatility to go from individual play to interactive or competitive play. Also, the selection of games continues to excite us with each new release. Their newest game, Pokemon Scarlet / Pokemon Violet comes out this month and Best Buy is giving away a copy of the double pack version of the game, a Nintendo prize pack, and a Pokemon Scarlet & Violet Edition Switch OLED, for one amazing ultimate Nintendo prize.

Do you have a favourite Nintendo memory?

Families have been enjoying Nintendo gaming for decades. My favourite Nintendo memory is from when my children were young playing Mario Kart with my father-in-law Dan. The fun started with selecting a driver, “Granpa, I want to be Bowser; you got to be him last time!” which to an outsider may have seemed confrontational but the atmosphere was total fun and laughs.

Pokemon too has been thrilling adults and children since 1996. What started as a very successful video game for the Game Boy quickly evolved into anime, trading cards, manga, and tons of related toys and other merchandise. Few on this planet have not experience Pokemon in one way or another. This contest will certainly create lasting memories for someone in Canada. The prize includes a Nintendo Switch console on which they will play countless games at home, at friends’ homes, and on road trips. One of those games will be the new Pokemon Scarlet / Pokemon Violet that’s also included in this prize. And the winner will also enjoy a collection of Nintendo Pokemon merchandise. It’s pretty much a perfect Pokemon prize!

Many people will be gifting Nintendo this season

You may be wondering what are the best games to give Nintendo Switch gamers this season. You might already have an opinion about it, or you may be interested in what games other players are recommending. We sent our writers to a Nintendo holiday showcase event to get some insights and you can read about their experiences on the blog. Also, scroll through the comments under that article. For the next two weeks, Canadians will be leaving their Nintendo Switch game recommendations under that article as one of the methods of entering this contest. Here are all of the ways you can enter this contest:

How to enter

Entering this contest is easy and you can enter in three different ways:

  1. In a comment below, tell us what your favourite Nintendo memory is, what game, was involved, and why this memory stands out for you.
  2. In a comment beneath the “Nintendo Holiday Showcase” article, tell us which Nintendo Switch game sold at Best Buy (include the model number) is your gift recommendation for Canadians this season.
  3. For up to two (2) additional entries, create a public post on a social media channel (one entry per channel!) telling your friends and followers which version “Pokemon Scarlet” or “Pokemon Violet” you’ll play first if you win this Nintendo Switch prize pack; include the hashtag #BestBuyNintendoSwitchContest, so we can find your post, and include one of the pictures showing on this article.
    Then return here and tell us in a comment below on which channel you posted it and the name of your channel (since many people use pseudonyms) so that we can check and verify your entry. You can use any social media channel (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, etc.), but the post must be public so we can verify it is there.

What you can win

At the end of this contest, we will randomly select one (1) winner to receive the Nintendo Switch Pokemon Scarlet and Violet Prize pack that includes the double game and the Nintendo Switch OLED Pokemon Scarlet & Violet Edition.

This contest runs from Nov 17th until Dec 5th.

Remember you can enter in three different way as discussed above. Nintendo is best played with friends and our contests are best enjoyed with you share with family and friends to increase that chances that either you or someone close to you wins a great prize.

Win a Nintendo Switch OLED with Pokemon Scarlet & Violet Rules and Regulations

Good Luck.

Martin Renaud
Martin Renaud
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Martin loves working with the talented editors and writers on the Best Buy Blog as Editor-in-Chief. During his spare time he is either working on his next novel, cooking up a masterpiece in the kitchen, or adding some smart tech to his new home on Mayne Island in British Columbia.
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  1. Playing Super Mario and Wave Race on my Gameboy at Christmas! My first and only console until I was in my late teens! It went everywhere with me!!

  2. Playing Super Mario and Wave Race on my Gameboy at Christmas! My first and only console until I was in my late teens! It went everywhere with me!

  3. Buying a GameBoy for my daughter for Christmas many many years ago and setting it up Christmas Eve making sure it was good to go and in working condition so she could have the perfect Christmas but I got carried away testing out Tetris into the wee hours of the night lol

  5. My favorite memory is when I saved up enough money to buy my own og GameBoy and Pokemon Red. I played that everywhere.

  7. Playing WWF Royal Rumble with my older brother. In hindsight I was probably too young for that game, but it was a blast picking the Undertaker and tombstoning my older bro.

  9. I’ve been a Nintendo fan since the start. My favourite memory, however, is with Mario 64 and Goldeneye 64. The N64 was amazing. Although I have fond memories of plays the SNES’ TMNT Turtles in Time at my best friends house when we were kids,

  11. My cousin and I each had a game boy with the first Pokemon on it. I had blue and he had red. We would challenge each other and trade to collect them all, it was awesome!

  12. My parents bought be Sega Genesis as a kid and my brother and I really wanted an Nintendo NES because we wanted to play Super Mario. We begged and begged and they asked my uncle to switch systems with us and he did (best uncle ever!)

  13. My favourite memory is from many years ago when I was playing Zelda. My then 8 year old son’s friends would help me with tips and tricks to get further in the game. Some 30 plus years later we still laugh about it.

  14. my favourite memory was when i got my very first gameboy for my birthday as well as pokemon blue! It stands out for me because i still have it!

  15. Having a sleepover with my best friends with the singular intention of beating Zelda 2 with a Nintendo Power magazine for help. Spoiler: we did not beat Zelda 2 that night.

  17. Playing Mario kart with my brother and sister when we were young. Those were the good old days and we didn’t even know it!

  20. My favorite Nintendo memory is playing super smash bros with my brother on his N64. It stands out to me because it was the first video game I ever played and it was super fun! 20+ years later and we still enjoy playing video games together.

  22. My favourite Nintendo memory is playing Mario Go Kart with the neighbourhood kids. We would pile into one of our living rooms and take turns playing against each other on our SNES. How I miss hanging out with those kids! I would recommend the new Super Mario game now.

  28. My Nintendo GameBoy was with me all the time back in the 90’s while travelling Europe. Super Mario kept me company while travelling on the trains.

  34. My favourite Nintendo memory was when the original game boy was released – I was in high school at the time – and it included Tetris which is my all time favourite game.

  35. My favourite nintendo memory would have to be my parents getting me an nintendo with super mario brothers 3 when i was really sick with anemia. I missed most of grade 4 and spent a lot of time in and out of sick kids hospital. I missed at lot with my friends and couldn’t do a lot that exerted physical energy. Playing nintendo was something I could do that was fun and I could incorporate being social with my friends.

  36. My favourite memory was playing NintendoLand with a good friend – we would blast aliens and just be silly. It was freedom from school.

  37. oh the memories. Legend of Zelda! best game ever. I just remember when the first nintendo machines came out. i loved it. so much better than the previous gaming machines – remember vic20/commodore 64? atari? and other old ones. did them all. so many good memories with the Nintendo.

    i recommend mario kart from the other article

  41. We played on the Nintendo 64 Donkey Kong, was so much fun, had to give up the controllers when the kids came home from school though 🙂

  42. My favorite Nintendo memory was playing Goldeneye 007 for the first time at a friend’s house for a sleepover. We played until 4am and I can still remember that night like it was yesterday. That memory makes me miss the days of being a kid having a bunch of guys together to play games all night long.

  45. My favourite memory was playing Mario in my cousin’s basement. It was special because we didn’t have our own Nintendo system.

  46. In my 20’s I got a SuperNintendo. I really enjoy playing Super Mario World. I would stay up into the wee hours, thinking just one more try and I can make it past this level. Quite fun and addictive.

  48. Playing Chrono Trigger Final fantasy and enjoying the soundtrack/music. Also, the graphics they had in those games.

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