Two Spooky NES Games Are Creeping Onto The Switch eShop This Week

No. I’m not interested.

I saw these on the coming soon page and thought the second one looked like a punch out knock off. A little more interested now but I bet they’ll be on sale by December.

Halloween 86 looks like it’s be the more fun of the two. I’ll keep them on my wishlist.

I hate scary games because they um scare me. I will only play a scary game if i am invincible and the volume is all the way down. :/

My first reaction was “NES games available on the eshop?” And being surprised they were selling NES games.

Then I found out they came out in 2016 and 2017.

So I’ll look at the reviews, I do like me some pseudo retro gaming.

@Roam85 My first thought was NSO. Silly me.

@Roam85 I had the same reaction. And I'll wait on reviews on haunted Halloween 86

This reminds me, Nintendo should add some spooky games to the NES and/or SNES apps for Halloween. Even if it's just one per console. Like Monster Party or Ghosts and Goblins or Gargoyle's Quest 2 for the NES, and Zombies Ate My Neighbors for the SNES. I would've also said maybe Clock Tower for the SNES, but we know it's not happening because of multiple reasons.

@Krisi Sweet Home on Famicom is still one of the greatest horror games ever made and would be a great game to put on NSO in time for Halloween, even in Japanese. Still, don’t think it’s likely at all but I can dream.

I saw NES games in the title and thought Nintendo were adding some titles to Switch Online, they should probably do that at some point.

@Krisi What happened to Clock Tower anyway? I liked that franchise.

I probably wouldn't try these if they were included on the NES online app. Forget buying them separately!

Creepy Brawlers looks so much like Punch-Out I wonder if it's a ROM hack, but if it's on the eShop, surely Nintendo has seen it and approved it so it's something original.

@Xylnox I tried playing Amnesia, and got too stressed to continue playing before I got to see the monster. I am thirty.

Honestly, there were better games they could have picked to represent the NES for Halloween. Some examples would be Monster Party, Shadowgate, Gargoyle's Quest 2, Faxanadu or even Rampage. This is to say nothing of the excellent Famicom titles such as Sweet Home, Splatterhouse Wanpaku Graffiti, or Devil World. On the plus side, there's some good Halloween NES games already on the service such as Ghosts n Goblins, Metroid, and maybe Vs Castlevania if you're willing to buy it off the shop.

@nessisonett I was thinking of Sweet Home as well, but it's very unlikely because it's a movie tie-in.

@KayFiOS I usually just stay away from scary games. Hehe

@Xylnox Same, but I wanted to give it a try to test my limits. I'll stick to Corpse Party and DDLC.

Oh, so these aren’t NSO games... still not interested..

...enough of these crappy looking games please.

@Roam85 These are actual NES games.

Halloween '86 looks cool. Great that there’s new(ish) NES games still appearing. The other one looks too much like a Punch Out mod to have any kind of excitement about though.

@YANDMAN Made in 2016 and 2017.

I stand by calling them “pseudo retro”.

Haunted Halloween '85 exists. I would like to play through the first one before picking up '86!

@Roam85 they were available on physical carts made for play on the NES, the punch out clone can still be bought from Mega Cat studios store. These are emulated ports. It isn't pseudo at all. Do you assume that modern NES games are not made?

@YANDMAN It’s totally pseudo.

It was made for the NES in 2016 and 2017.

They weren’t programming off a 1980s dos prompt or on an apple II.

I like pseudo retro gaming, and it’s awesome they made it totally playable on the NES, but it’s not old enough to actually be retro gaming.

@Roam85 Congratulations on misunderstanding everything.

@YANDMAN at least I’m able to understand the word “retro” doesn’t apply to things that came out within the past three years.

I'll just wait on Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th to hit the eshop.

@Roam85 You are the only one who mentioned the word 'Retro' just think about that. Nobody else here or the article claims these are 'RETRO' games. They are stated as NES games but in your ridiculous mind you assume that because these are NES games they are RETRO or as you claim pseudo RETRO. Please understand your mistake and stop blabbing utter nonsense.

Congrats to the devs for getting this to happen!

Just put zombies ate my neighbour's on the snes console

@Tandy255 me too. Silly of us both to expect any kind of update there...

@YANDMAN yes. They’re games within the past three years so they can’t be retro.

But they’re styled like retro games. So they are pseudo retro. (They have to be to work on an NES. One is a punch out-like).

I get you don’t agree with my labeling, but you still haven’t made an actual case for why except for just attacking without substantiation.

I thought that this article was announcing a port for the unofficial sequel to Punch out, Power Punch II.

How weird would have that been?

@Roam85 These are actual NES games, thjey are not styled like NES games they were programmed from the ground up solely to play on the NES system. This conversation is painful. Let this be the end of it. Shovel Knight is a pseudo retro game, but again you are the only one here who is actually using the phrase 'RETRO'. My stance is these are new games for classic systems and is factually what they are. I don't claim them to be retro so please stop being silly and saying the same stupid things over and over again.

@YANDMAN new games on a retro system are pseudo retro.

If you’re trying to tell me an NES isn’t a retro system, you’re wrong.

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So will these have any modern emulation features like save states or rewind?