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Nintendo Collabs With Starlight To Roll Out Hospital-Safe Consoles Across America

Shut up, YOU’RE crying.

You may have thought the Nintendo Switch was the ultimate portable console, but you ain’t seen nothin’ yet. Nintendo’s Starlight Gaming Station – not a new console, per se, but a special version of the Switch designed for hospitals and healthcare centres – comes equipped with 25 games, and can be rolled around to different rooms.

The Gaming Station, which is the latest collaboration between Nintendo and Starlight, was announced last year at the Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital located in Tacoma, Washington. The same hospital was the first to receive the console, which comes in four designs (Mario, Princess Peach, Yoshi, and Donkey Kong) and was designed specifically to be easy to disinfect and clean. The 25 games pre-loaded onto the Gaming Station include The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Super Mario Maker 2, Super Mario Party, Pokémon: Let’s Go Pikachu, Super Mario Odyssey, Stardew Valley, Cuphead, and Minecraft. What a haul!

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