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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  2. Receiving my first NES system as a child!
    Now that I’m a father I can provide this memory for my son now.

  4. My favourite memory is receiving the original Nintendo at Christmas, after weeks of hearing that I was NOT going to get it!

  5. My favorite memory is staying up all night with my best friend playing Mario on the original nintendo.

  6. I can’t explain it any further, but my favourite Nintendo memory is Playing ‘Duck Hunt’ at my cousins when I was little.

  9. Favourite Memory – My kids playing Super Mario at their grandparents….it was a special treat for them.

  13. Oh, I remember in the 90s when we had the NES and the super Nintendo. Me and my siblings were play the early Mario games and SimCity all the time. It was a great way to buy them and have so much fun! I have showed my kids those games too, and they also enjoy them which is super awesome and nostalgic for me

  14. My favorite memory is playing Super Mario over at a friends house, we would play all weekend, it was so fun

  16. My favorite nintendo memory is playing Super Mario 64 with my brother when I was younger. It was memorably the first 3D game we ever played and we had so much fun discovering all the secrets hidden in the world.

  17. My favourite Nintendo memory is unwrapping an original Game Boy for Christmas. I took that thing _everywhere_ and couldn’t get enough of it. The music from those games, especially Super Mario Land: Six Golden Coins, still rings around in my head.

  19. We didn’t have much money, but managed to find an old Nintendo game for the kids. They spent many hours playing Mario Kart and one of them still has this game many, many years later.

  20. Buying my Super Nintendo was the highlight of my childhood – I loved playing Super Mario World, Astro Boy, Batman Returns and many others!!!

  21. When my son got Principal Award at his grade 9, I gave him a Nintendo and both him and I love it a lot. Our favourite game is Clubhouse 51

  22. My favourite Nintendo memory is getting the original NES for Christmas when I was a kid and playing Super Mario Bros. for hours with friends and family. Thanks for the chance to win this Nintendo Switch prize!

  25. My favorite Nintendo is Tetris, I have spent many hours over the years playing this game along with many more.

  26. i grew up playing Nintendo – got my first one when I was 12 I think. I fell in love with Super Mario 3 though, it was what my friends and I all played after school for years.

  27. I played Nintendo maybe once or twice when I was a kid, I borrowed it from a friend. The game was super mario, I still love it and it’s still my favourite over all.

  32. Playing original Super Mario Brothers and competing with my brother to finish the levels. Fun times and a few arguments

  36. My favourite Nintendo memory was getting my first Gameboy color with Pokémon red. It brought all my childhood dreams to life. My ultimate Nintendo Switch game recommendation is The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (HCCPAAAAA)! A game I keep returning to.

  37. For my 19th birthday, I received a coveted Nintendo DS from my boyfriend at the time. He surprised me by putting it in a different box which initially threw me off guard. I remember being extremely elated by this because they were so popular then and I would play my Aunt’s when she wasn’t using it. I remembered playing the Sims survival game. So much fun!
    My aunt and uncle then took me to Best Buy on the weekend to buy me some games, and one of the games I bought was Professor Layton and the Curious Village. I had no idea what it was really about but it looked fun.
    I fell in love with this game and the whole world it was set in. So much so, years later, I was given a Nintendo 3DS a couple years ago, and I had the chance to revisit the Professor Layton series, buying and playing the series ones I never got to them. I’ve fallen even deeply in love with them. I just have one more to go in his original series but he be had my eye on the Switch for a while now. So just love Nintendo, so much nostalgia. I’m a huge Super Mario fan.

  40. My favourite memory is finding and gifting a Nintendo Switch to my son when the system first came out. Mario Kart was his favourite game

  43. My favourite Nintendo memory was getting a game boy for my 7th birthday, it was the first time I can remember crying in excitement when opening a gift!

  45. A few years back when the first DSi came out, my sister and my self bought a bunch, each of our kids had there’s and we got one each for our self. We used to play against our boys. We would team me and her against them. We had all the Super Mario’s. It became a little obsessive and we showed no mercy to our boys that thought they were better than us “old mom” like they used to say. Now our boys are 17, 17, 18, 19 & 21, and they still talk about how good me and my sister were at the games. Memories, funny how time flies when you’re having fun!

  47. My favorite Nintendo memory is when me and my brothers received the Super Nintendo at Christmas. It literally changed our lives and helped us build so many great memories – like Mario Brothers.

  48. My favourite Nintendo memory was playing Mario Kart with my family. We had four controllers so we could all play together.

  49. My favourite Nintendo memory was playing Mario Party 2 on the Nintendo 64 with my siblings! It stands out because we used to hurt our hands with the controller trying to beat each other!
    My recommendation this holiday season is of course Breath of the Wild ( model HCCPAAAAA)

  50. i loved playing super mario, but my favourite when my kids were little was mario paint, it was so new and different at the time and the kids loved it

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