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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Jimmy Fallon Debuts the Nintendo Switch [Watch (HLS stream): Jimmy Fallon Debuts the Nintendo Switch](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/qnFsr23C.m3u8) (9:40)  _Published 2016-12-08. Nintendo Switch debut on The Tonight Show_ --- Jul 27, 2023 9:13 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Minecraft for Nintendo Switch](/video/pA8e0tVh/) ### Minecraft for Nintendo Switch [Nintendo Switch Hardware Overview](/video/NNtTzELg/) ### Nintendo Switch Hardware Overview [Nintendo Switch: Everything You Need to Know](/video/4UTwQMIx/) ### Nintendo Switch: Everything You Need to Know --- ## Transcript You always bring us the coolest, new Nintendo stuff. Tonight, you're debuting the new mobile game, Super Mario Run. Tell us a little bit about this. Absolutely. And, look, thanks for having us. We know you love to have us on the show. That's why we work so hard to bring you the latest and greatest things from Nintendo. Super Mario Run, you know, Mario is our most iconic character. Absolutely. And for the very first time, we're bringing Mario to mobile devices, to the iPad and to the iPhone, with Super Mario Run. [ APPLAUSE ] And you're gonna get to play. [ APPLAUSE ] And there it is, there. So, there are three main modes to the game. And the first is called the World Tour, that's what you're gonna get to play. World tour. We're showing off te Toad Rally. That's where you get to play Play against other people. Kingdom Builder is where you get to build your own Mario Kingdom on your iWatch device. All right. So, it's like [ APPLAUSE ] I'm already on the pre- order list for this. You're on the notification. I'm already, I mean, I'm that much of a geek. I'm freaking out. Yeah. Yeah. [ LAUGH ] That's gonna be great. Well, look. Before we got started, we've got a special guest here in the audience. Here to cheer you on, we have the creator of Donkey Kong, the Legend of Zelda, and Mario himself, Mr. Shigeru Miyamoto. That's what I'm talking about, hey! [ APPLAUSE ] [ APPLAUSE ] Yeah, I knew you were doing something. No, no pressure. No pressure at all. My god. [ APPLAUSE ] Mr. Niomoto, I'm the biggest fan, I can't believe it. I'm freaking out right now. No pressure there, he's going to watch me play Super Mario Run, ok good! [ LAUGH ] So you're ready to run. Ok, yeah alright let's yeah. So you're ready to run, I'm going to hand you. Now you can play this with one hand, you don't need two. You play it with one hand. Yeah, which is good. So you tap the screen. You make Mario jump. Yep. You wanna collect as many coins as possible. As always. You wanna get the special coins, and if you're really good, I'll try and guide you to a special place, where you can get the invincibility star. [ LAUGH ] That's my advantage here, ready? So press the start. Yep. And you're running. All right here we go, running. I got the So jump and get all of the coins. [ SOUND ] [ APPLAUSE ] That's it! That's it. Now get the special coin. Get it, get it, get it! Watch out for the [ UNKNOWN ] plant. [ NOISE ] [ APPLAUSE ] Yeah! You know what i'm talking about, that's what i'm talking about. [ INAUDIBLE ] [ APPLAUSE ] That's it. Me and [ INAUDIBLE ] are watching this come on! [ LAUGH ] That's it. So you're gonna see an arrow, hit that arrow and jump. Jump! [ APPLAUSE ] And hit that star ahead. [ SOUND ] [ APPLAUSE ] [ LAUGH ] [ APPLAUSE ] [ INAUDIBLE ] with my name on it. That's gonna be my character name. Alright, alright this is [ INAUDIBLE ] ahead. So i get this, get some. You get all the coins. Yeah cuz this- Keep going, keep going. This is so much fun i'm gonna be so addicted to this, this is crazy. [ LAUGH ] All right I'm Stay away from the piranhas, watch out for the piranhas. Got it! [ APPLAUSE ] That's all right, keep going. The last part, this is the easy part, you got this. Wait why am I going the opposite way? [ LAUGH ] Keep going forward, go forward and jump off there. [ NOISE ] There you go. Big jump, big jump! [ APPLAUSE ] Seven out of ten, I'm bummed out, I'm really embarrassed You got the invincibility star. I'm so [ INAUDIBLE ] What do you think of my performance? Yeah, [ INAUDIBLE ] [ APPLAUSE ] [ INAUDIBLE ] He's being very nice. [ APPLAUSE ] Thank you so much. So Super Mario Run launches on December 15th. My heart is beating, that is so fun. [ LAUGH ] But beginning Thursday, you go to an Apple store, and you'll be able to participate in a demo available across the world in Apple stores beginning this Thursday. Okay. [ APPLAUSE ] Everyone will be getting this Super Mario Run Thank you for giving me this to try out. I really really appreciate this. This is always good. So you know we know you are such a big fun. You are such a great gamer. You love to challenge us to bring you the latest and greatest surprises. We have one more surprise. >. Come on no no no, this is so Can we get a drumroll This is The one last surprise. This is it. Jimmy are you ready? No. Yeah, no. I'm freaking out. This is not the Switch. This is the Nintendo Switch. This is it? [ LAUGH ] No way. I'm geeking out, I'm geeking out right now. And this is the Nintendo switch. [ LAUGH ] So launching next March. Next March, of course. Yeah and we're going to be sharing more information on January 12th. That's right. But before then, we wanted to give you a special opportunity. So here for the first time ever on TV, you're gonna get to play a little bit of the Nintendo Switch. [ APPLAUSE ] [ INAUDIBLE ] The Switch, this is, cannot wait for this, because you'll see why it's called the Switch, I've watched it, commercial online probably the entire so yeah, I'm geeking out. So, so. Guess what game we're gonna play? Don't even say the new Zelda. So for te first time ever, ever played on the Nintendo switch, we're gonna get to play the Legend of Zelda [ INAUDIBLE ] [ APPLAUSE ] Come on. Wow tell me what do I do? What do I do? So let me show us the [ INAUDIBLE ] My Good [ INAUDIBLE ] That's Link right there. This is good. So this is Link. Yeah. So this is Legend of Zelda. > This is the biggest world yet. This is the biggest world yet. So just look at how big this world is. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah fine. I mean it's massive. I see this. It's absolutely massive. My gosh. And what's neat about this is anywhere that you see, you can get to. I know Miyamoto this because Growing up outside of Kyoto, Japan, you would actually travel and walk around and have adventures, and you want to make a video game where you could kind of have adventures, and run into things and streams, and yeah anyways. [ LAUGH ] So you know all about it? Yeah, I do. I love it. I'm really a big fan. So what's neat about this game is, literally, you could play this game any way you want. I could climb down, and down here we have more goblin we could take on. Yeah, those guys do not look good. They don't look good, and you know what? I'm gonna let this boulder do all the work. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, boom! There you go, that's how you do it Reggie! [ APPLAUSE ] This is how you do it. And I know that's the meat and they're cooking meat. They use that for life in this game, I read about that. They use meat for life and it's a phenomenal game, and we're going to bring you over here to take on these [ UNKNOWN ]. Okay Give it to me. Let me do it. Let me at. [ LAUGH ] Now. Let me at. Now, here's the thing, right? So if you're at home. Yeah. And you get to this spot, and you're ready to go into a major battle. But you have to go to rehearsal. Like any other gamer you have to put the controller down and come back to it later. Yeah, here's. This is the magic of Nintendo Switch. All you do is you take it out and now you're gaming right on the system. This is the Nintendo switch! ( applause ) This is the actual machine? Like, is there anything left on this thing like. So the machine is here. Everything is here, the games are here, and you know, you can play it on your TV, you can take it on the go. No, I know everything about this thing because I know there's, these things you can remove these side things, there should be a kick stand in the back. Correct. Can I just pull it out? There's a kick stand. You pop this out. I pull out these two controls, I give one to you- And we can play? And you can play a two player game. Exactly. This thing is three consoles in one console! [ APPLAUSE ] I'm freaking out. All right. Am I going the right way? If you're going the right way you'll want to go up the hill that we saw earlier and go after the becovlen. All right, yeah. I don't know where the hill, I think I see him up there. All right what do I do to [ INAUDIBLE ] Well you wanna swipe your sword. Okay. And you better take him on Jimmy. Swing away. [ APPLAUSE ] This is just the coolest thing ever. How do you? Isn't there a shield slide? Yeah, off of that hill you could pull out your shield and slide. You could pull out some bombs and throw those too. Look at that. [ APPLAUSE ] [ CROSSTALK ] I know all about this! Dude I am freaking out, this is a game changer, thank you so much! Absolutely. Reggie. [ APPLAUSE ] I love this, Nintendo's, every kid and every human and every person will be playing with this come March. I'm so excited, thank you for always bringing us the coolest new stuff. Absolutely. 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