Feature: Nintendo’s Long-Lost Advent Calendar Game Comes Home For Christmas On Switch

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The idea is a winner: You get a flat, holiday-themed box, and once a day for the 24 days leading up to Christmas, you get to open one of the little doors on the front. Here’s where it unravels: Behind the door — at least in most cheap, modern Advent calendars — is a piece of “chocolate,” but the low-grade kind manufacturers aren’t legally allowed to call chocolate (there’s a heavy emphasis on those quotation marks). It’s a real let-down, especially given how fun the premise is.

Years ago, though, Nintendo and German developer tons of bits mastered the art of the Advent calendar with UPIXO In Action: Mission in Snowdriftland.