Just installed expo for the first time, get error immediately after initialisation

Expo Development Tools
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I am following the steps contained here
https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/getting-started

Ive installed a fresh copy of npm and even done npm update command

I then ran npm install -g expo-cli

This gave a whole bunch of warnings about linux packages not installed but im running Windows 10 Home 64bit so no probs there

npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: @expo/ngrok-bin-darwin-ia32@2.2.8 (node_modules\expo-cli\node_modules\@expo\ngrok-bin-darwin-ia32):
    npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for @expo/ngrok-bin-darwin-ia32@2.2.8: wanted {"os":"darwin","arch":"ia32"} (current: {"os":"win32","arch":"x64"})

I then typed expo init HelloWorld and got the following error

C:\Users\####\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\expo-cli\node_modules\formidable\lib\incoming_form.js:1
(function (exports, require, module, __filename, __dirname) { �d��.�
                                                              ^

SyntaxError: Invalid or unexpected token
    at new Script (vm.js:79:7)
    at createScript (vm.js:251:10)
    at Object.runInThisContext (vm.js:303:10)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:657:28)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:700:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:599:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:538:12)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:530:3)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:637:17)
    at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:22:18)
Uncaught Error C:\Users\####\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\expo-cli\node_modules\formidable\lib\incoming_form.js:1
(function (exports, require, module, __filename, __dirname) { �d��.�
                                                              ^
   SyntaxError: Invalid or unexpected token
    at new Script (vm.js:79:7)
    at createScript (vm.js:251:10)
    at Object.runInThisContext (vm.js:303:10)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:657:28)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:700:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:599:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:538:12)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:530:3)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:637:17)
    at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:22:18)

I have no idea why. Its a clean install, is there something ive missed installing?

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I do not recommend you in following these steps, since you are using expo. ALWAYS use expo tutorials instead of facebook ones.

Expo always will guide you to the right way and you are not going to get any error if you follow exactly what it says.

Follow that one, instead. API Reference - Expo Documentation

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