I have a very special video to share with you all.

My youngest nephew, now seven years old, has made his first video game strategy video.

For a few months, he has been fascinated by the original Paper Mario from 2001. He’s been playing the game on my original N64 cartridge, which has been giving him a new appreciation for the Switch and its save features.

Then, a few weeks ago, he started talking about how he’d like to share some of the tricks he discovered while playing the game. I told him that, if he was interested, we could record his game footage and make a video. I even offered to run it on my YouTube channel.

We talked a bit about what secrets he’d like to share and how we would present them. He recorded his gameplay and I edited it and we worked out a script. I think he did a very good job of making sure his audience would clearly see exactly what he was trying to demonstrate.

Today, on Saturday, the first of April, the video finally went live. Watch for yourself and enjoy the combination of retro gaming and a child’s imagination: