Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for June 16th, 2020. In today’s article, we’ve got a full review of Nintendo’s recent release Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics, summaries of all of the newest games including surprise release Invisible, Inc. and the Darius Cozmic Collection sets. We finish things up with the usual list of new and outgoing sales, and I’m afraid the latter is the bulkier list by far today. Let’s dash into action!
Reviews
Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics ($39.99)

Long before it was a video game company, Nintendo’s business was largely centered around another sort of gaming: card games. At the start, it manufactured Japanese playing cards called hanafuda, eventually becoming the most popular producer of said cards in Japan. In 1959, it made a deal with Disney to use the company’s characters on its Western-style playing cards, shifting what was previously seen as a product meant for shifty gambling adults into a family activity. That eventually led to the toy business, which ultimately saw Nintendo enter the burgeoning video game market in the late 1970s/early 1980s. For most people around the world, Nintendo is a video game company and nothing more. In Japan, the company still makes its playing cards, albeit as more of a side business than anything else. Still, every once in a while it likes to pay homage to its earlier history. I think that’s part of why it makes things l...