 Hey folks, we are doing something a little different today and it's going to sound insane now. I'm going to tell you guys right now, you're going to want to stick around all the way to the end of the video because if you do, you're not going to regret it. But at this channel, we've done a number of crazy things. I'm Nathaniel Rubble Jance. You're watching Nintendo Prime. We cover Nintendo news and all this crazy stuff. We've had wild times on live streams. Sometimes maybe throwing back a few too many adult beverages. We've had squirrel mass sound. We've done little voiceover things. We've had a great time. We've lit the world on fire. But one thing I've always believed in is one, giving back to the very community that helps support what we do here. And then also, when we can, giving back to those in need. Because I truly believe that a difference is made with every little bit of effort thrown towards those in need. So even if you only had 50 cents to say, when you roll through McDonald's to give to the Ronald McDonald Foundation, yeah, sure. You can argue it's not the greatest charity in the world. But a little bit of that money you gave is helping somebody in need somewhere. Now, this video is really crazy. Because I'm only really looking to get 100,000 views. But here's the thing. Every 100,000 views, we're going to give away a Switch OLED. Literally, you see this thing back here? Every 100,000 views, this video gets. We're going to give away a Switch OLED. But it's not just that. So that's all cool and everything. But what else are we going to do for the charity? That's how I give that to you guys. What do we do for charity? Well, here's what's also going to happen. For every 100,000 views, we're going to give $50 to a charity. Now, I haven't decided which charity yet. I'm actually sifting through a number of them right now. Because I've got to make sure it goes to a cause and a charity that isn't just CEOs profiting on the back end with only 10% of the money donated going to a good cause. There are some well-known ones out there, specifically for video gamers to donate to. But I got to kind of consult with a larger audience. And maybe you guys have some charity suggestions of your own that you could put down in the description. But here's the thing. I could obviously get in trouble for a video like this. I'm a small-time YouTuber. I do have a job. I am a full-time college student. But here's the thing. Obviously, when I say for every 100,000 views, we give away a Switch OLED. That could be a bit troubling. Because you don't necessarily make enough money to pay for a Switch OLED with 100,000 views. You don't necessarily make enough money to do that and give money to charity, right? It just doesn't happen. I think the last video I had, I get over 100,000 views. It was like 115,000. And yeah, it'd only be like $140. So I can't be too wild about this. So what I will say is, the $50 donated to charity, that's gonna be forever. So every time this video gets 100,000 views to the end of my days on this planet, I will donate $50 to charity. That much I can guarantee you. But we have to put a limit on the OLEDs. I can't be crazy here. So while we're not going to say, oh, if it gets a million or two million, we're cutting you off, what I will say is there will be a cut-off date so we could obviously do the giveaway. So here's what's gonna happen. For every 100,000 views this video gets from now until Christmas Day of 2021. That's right, December 25th. For every 100,000 views from now until then, I will give away a Switch OLED. And I still could get in trouble for this. I still could end up being millions of views and I'm stuck, you know, shelling out hundreds of thousands of dollars for the Switch OLEDs. But that's for me to worry about. I will make it happen. I will make sure that we get those Switch OLEDs out to all of you. It's really interesting too, because while we're obviously driving some viewership here to try to do something special for charity and obviously give back to you guys, I mean, I'd be remiss if I mentioned, you're not gonna win one of those Switch OLEDs if you're not subscribed. Yeah, I think it's the least I can ask you to do, considering what I'm trying to do for you guys and for charity. In fact, you know, if you're actually watching this in the month of September, we actually technically have a Switch OLED giveaway going on right now that you need to be subscribed for to enter. So hey, you already get entered for one before we've even hit our very first view on this video while I'm still editing. So yeah, I'm really excited about all of that and I'm really excited about what I'm about to announce at the end of this video. But before we do, I guess now is where I give you a little background about who I am and why I'm a YouTuber, because I am a man in his mid-30s. I've been a Nintendo fan, man, since as far back as I can even remember, maybe not back to my very first time crawling, but when I picked up Punch Out and played it on my dad's Nintendo entertainment system when I was like five years old, I was born in 1986 and it was a wild time with Mike Tyson's Punch Out because my dad was actually on Mike Tyson and going to the bathroom and I thought the game looked fun and I wasted it and he had to start all over again. Basically, Mike Tyson destroyed me. I had no idea what I was doing and my dad was not very happy since it was the very first time he had ever made it to Mike Tyson at the end of that game. If you've ever played Mike Tyson's Punch Out or even the original Punch Out, you know how hard it is to beat that last fighter, let alone Mike Tyson who, for my money, was probably the most difficult of all the fighters throughout the various Punch Out games. So yeah, that was my first experience with video games and it kinda just snowballed from there. I eventually got an original Game Boy and then later a light and a Game Boy color so I played a lot of handheld games, got really into Pokemon for a while, really into Super Mario Land. There was a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle game, I don't remember fondly playing on my Game Boy and obviously I was playing a little bit of Nintendo entertainment system along the way and then eventually a Super Nintendo, but my dad was always buying the consoles for himself and I was the kid getting the handhelds. It was a very interesting time. I really wasn't until the N64 that it started to become the family system and I got to really dive deep into console gaming but by then my dad was also very, very nice to me because he was really into computers while working at Domino's Pizza. That's right, he was like a supervisor or whatever managing like four different stores and he helped me build my very first computer and here I thought I was building it something for his work or whatever because they use computers, I've been to his office building where they manage a bunch of stuff behind the scenes at Domino's and I just thought it was just a fun father-son thing to do and here at the home below it was a birthday present and I built my own first computer and it was so cool because back then obviously the internet was so young there was dial up and all that and yeah it was cheap but it wasn't great and I was busy playing Age of Empires online through MSN gaming zone, like anyone out there remember MSN gaming zone? No, that's a thing that's only from my childhood, right? Like, oh boy, guys remember AIM, AOL Instant Messenger, I mean back in those days, MSN Messenger, Yahoo, Yahoo Chatrooms, that was like a big thing, remember ASL, anyone out there remember ASL? Like that was my early interactions with people in video games and it was just truly a special time at least for me growing up and I just continued to love Nintendo systems along the way I did eventually dive into PlayStation and Xbox and really enjoy the wide breadth of video games that are out there and even to this day like it's kind of funny, my children right now are playing a game, they're in the other room playing Roblox, who knew when that game came out? You know, God, however many years ago that my six year old and eight year old son would be in the other room playing Roblox and yeah, they also play Switch and all that and my son actually, my eight year old really likes PlayStation 5 a lot but he likes the games that are obviously intended to be played by someone his age, like New Super Lucky's Tale, which I told him he could play on Switch but for some reason he just has to have it on PlayStation 5 or something else that's crazy. Well, I guess Astrobot isn't so crazy, he also really enjoyed Sackboy. So there's just a lot of gaming and love in this household and it continues to this day as I instill that in my children and I get it, some people are gonna be like, but your kids, what are they playing Roblox on? Yeah, they're playing them on tablets. I understand, okay, there's always that conundrum between, is it real gaming? And the thing is the tablets and phones and all that of today are basically the Game Boys of yesterday. I understand that gaming has changed a bit but think about some of the popular games on phones when you think about things like, man, God, is this even so popular like Candy Crush, what, it's a puzzle game. I mean, hello Tetris on Game Boy. I might say it is better than Tetris but I am pointing out that it's a very similar experience and touch controls are just really easy for young kids to understand over buttons and sticks. And I know it sounds crazy, someone who grew up with a D-pad and then like the Atari stick back when I got to try that and then like the Genesis with the six buttons and how weird the six buttons felt but it still was so cool because I'm playing the second Genesis, Rock and Sonic 2 and you know, playing ramparts, anyone else else, playing rampart, like it was really cool for me and I'm trying to understand it. Hey, this is kind of cool for them too. Yeah, they're experienced in other parts of gaming but hey tablets and phones are part of the gaming world today. In fact, they're maybe the largest audience of the gaming world. So it's insane thinking how gaming's evolved over the years as I've gone older. Now, obviously as I grew up, I eventually became doing this thing on YouTube but I really started doing that until 2017. Now, if you look up how old this channel is, it'll say 2008, but you'll notice in those earlier videos a lot of something called Zelda Informer. Yeah, when I was 12 years old I started a Zelda fan site on geocities.com called Zelda Domain and I wrote like walkthroughs and guides. I really got into the legend of Zelda back then right after Ocarina of Time came out and like so many kids did and I just had a lovely time growing that site, growing that site and I basically ran Zelda Domain in various forms and got better and better at web design and web programming all the way about till 2006 when my host at the time just shut down. It shut down and all the sites on the network went down with it and at this point I had just graduated high school in 2005 and I was in college and I really wasn't thinking about what the hell I'm going to do next because it costs a lot of money to run a website, keep servers up and all that. You can talk about only 15 bucks a day but when you're in college and you're 19 and that 15 bucks is the difference between whether you have ramen noodles to eat or not, it's kind of an interesting conundrum you find yourself in. So me and a buddy were working on another Zelda site behind the scenes called Absolute Zelda. We did pay for a year of the Domain and we had some really cheap $2 a month hosting but we were just preparing to launch that and it took us about a year of development and it was a really cool dynamic, even by today's standards, it was a really cool dynamic layout. It was going to work awesome on what was at the time. We didn't even know that smartphones were even going to be a thing. You had the iPhone, the very first iPhone just came out. Just trying to make it dynamic for all devices and lo and behold, the people who are running Zelda Informer which was founded in 2007, approached me and asked if I would come on and run the place because I had all this experience running fan sites and they had a bunch of people who are really good writers but not necessarily anyone who's really good at managing all of that. So I joined eventually in 2008 on Zelda Informer and from that point forward, that website went from a small little fan project with a couple hundred views a day to getting millions of views per month by the time I ended up leaving through some means that I didn't want to happen but I ended up being let go by a new ownership back in 2017 which is when this channel really got started. This channel was originally a YouTube channel for that website but we didn't really upload a lot of content and I negotiated on my way out to maintain this channel because I basically been the face of it since 2008 when we put together this YouTube channel. So yeah, from there my YouTube journey kind of began and it was really the community that pushed me to do more. I was just putting up videos occasionally, still had, you know, saw jobs and college I really wasn't at the time when I was raising my children and you know, I recently last year got back into college deciding you know what, you know, I need to make, I need to set myself up better. I'm getting to my mid-30s and you know, I don't have anything in retirement. So it's just a whole crazy thing whereas it was time to finally get my crap together as my kids are getting older. I don't want them to feel like they got to take care of, you know, mom and dad when we're, you know, 70, 80 years old and have no money and they got, and I don't want that to be the case. I want them to know that we are good. We are taken care of. You don't have to financially support us even if our health goes south or something like that. So that's just something that I personally want to do plus obviously I want to be able to tell my children that they don't have to go and debt $100,000 to go to college. I'm doing that. I don't want them to have to do that. So that's why I'm back in college. But along the way, the community really pushed me to do more and more YouTube videos. They kept saying, hey, you're kind of fun. Hey, you bring a zest as a dad and a gamer and you have all this deep history with all these different franchises I founded MetroidWiki.org for crying out loud. I have done a lot of things all around video games and I actually almost enjoy creating content about video games more than playing them now. And it's crazy to me to say that but I still have this deep passion for video games. But now I'm almost more passionate about creating content around it, be it news, be it impressions. It's crazy to me how much gaming has really impacted me as a person and gotten me through some tough times. And now here I am making a video where the sky's really the limit on what ends up being given away from it. And I'm just, I'm really thrilled, I guess, to get towards the end of the video for those of you that stuck around for all this story about me and the channel. I wanna announce that this video in the month of September here and October, November and December. So for the next three months, even if we don't get to 100,000 views, this doesn't matter, we will be giving away $100 and Nintendo Switch eShop codes. 100 each month to one person who comments down below. It'll be randomly chosen. It's just gonna be a randomizer that picks the name. But what I want you guys to do in the comments is obviously you can talk about this video and all that but I want you to just tell me your favorite gaming memories growing up. Maybe you are still a child yourself. Maybe you're a parent, an adult. Maybe you're a grandparent. I have no idea. Tell me your favorite experiences with video games growing up or what got you into gaming if you just got started? That's something I'm always curious to know. I told you my story. Hopefully you guys have some really interesting ones I can read later. And we will literally on the 1st of October, pick a winner and start getting that $100 to give away. But if you can't tell, all of our winners gotta be subscribers. That's just kind of what you guys do for me because I don't know. I feel like that's the least we can do as a community together is just keep growing. So if we ever do something like this again, it can be bigger and better and we can help even more people and also help each other. Thank you guys so much for tuning in. I'm Nathan Robodance from The Thunder Prime. I actually usually don't wear glasses. My contacts are in order right now. So I actually don't like wearing these things. Fun fact, but you know what? I'll catch you guys in the next video.