Kevin Cassidy, owner of fan news site GoNintendo.com, has been a life-long Nintendo fan. He grew up playing Nintendo's games, now he spends his days watching and chronicling their every move.

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"When it comes to Nintendo's entire library of games, there's a unique thread that flows throughout all of them," Cassidy said. "It's a certain kind of feeling you get, a certain type of storytelling that you just can't get anywhere else."

But even with his love of the company, his eloquent talk of a nigh-magical thread running through all of Nintendo's games, Kevin's not in the highest echelon of Nintendo fans. Kevin isn't in ... the Defense Force.

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