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Fans eager to return to Hyrule don’t have long to wait — or far to go, for that matter. Nintendo is bringing the latest Legend of Zelda game to PAX West, and it’s just one of the many big-name games attendees of the show will get a chance to play ahead on-site at the Nintendo booth during the event.

Nintendo is bringing hands-on demos of no less than four games to the 20th anniversary edition of the massive gaming show, which runs August 30 through September 2 in Seattle. Gamers will have the chance to become Princess Zelda with a preview of the upcoming Nintendo Switch game The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, as they try and solve why mysterious rifts appear to be stealing the inhabitants of Hyrule, with the help of equally unknowable (but thankfully more benign) Tri.

Additionally, PAX attendees can test themselves (and their friends) against the Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition, or play some of the mini games from Super Mario Party Jamboree more than a month before the game’s release. (The finished game will have more than 110 of them, so no-one needs to worry about running out of minigames during the show.) And, as if that weren’t enough, visitors to the Nintendo booth during the show will have the opportunity to face off against some threats from a galaxy far, far away Star Wars: Hunters.

In case all of that isn’t enough reason to convince Nintendo fans to visit, My Nintendo members get one more bonus: checking in to the Nintendo booth during the show will earn them My Nintendo Platinum Points, and get a free gift (while supplies last, of course). (A Nintendo fan but not a My Nintendo member? Thankfully, you can sign up right now.)

It’s all happening at PAX West at the Seattle Convention Center, taking place August 30 through September 2.