Nintendo, as you've probably seen by now, has announced its Switch Online line-up for the month of December.
As usual, Japan gets a similar but also slightly different selection of titles to choose from. While all regions will be receiving Rare's Donkey Kong Country 3 and Jaleco's The Ignition Factor, the other three offerings are different, depending on where you're located.
In Nintendo's homeland, Super Valis IV and Tuff E Nuff on the SNES have been swapped out for the Super Famicom titles Kunio-kun's Dodgeball (Technos Japan Corp / Arc System Works, 1993) and Sugoi Hebereke "Amazing Hebereke" (Sunsoft, 1994). And the NES game Nightshade is replaced by the original Famicom title, Smash Ping Pong (Nintendo / Konami, 1987).
If you would like to access any of Japan's December games, you'll need to have access to its local Switch eShop. Here you will be able to download the Famicom and Super Famicom apps, and enjoy Japan-only NSO offerings such as the original Shin Megami Tensei by Atlus.
What do you think of Japan's line-up compared to the western one for the month of December? Leave a comment down below.
[source topics.nintendo.co.jp]
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what, japan gets sugoi hebereke and we don't, nooo.
@HotGoomba___Rebrand I know right?! Don't worry me and the gang already have our pitchforks and torches and are marching as we speak.
That table tennis game looks amazing!
I would love to play localized versions of the Hebereke games. I've only ever played a fan translation of the original Famicom game and I thought it was pretty fun. Between that and Mother 3 it strikes me quite strange the games that Japan thinks we don't care about.
Edit: I lied, it wasn't a fan translation, it was Ufouria: The Saga for PAL. Still, Sugoi Hebereke is probably the best of the series on the SFC just as a unique multiplayer game.
Man these look so much cooler then the ones we get.
just wait japan is going to get earth bound one day and its going to be JP only.
@Yanina.
Perhaps Japanese gamers think the same, and would prefer our titles.
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@Snatcher,
Imagine the meltdown on here if that ever happened.
Don't worry, it's easy to set up a japanese account in like 5 mins to play these
In case sugoi herebebebebe piques your interest
@Snatcher Better yet, they'll get Mother 3 when the inevitable GBA library shows up
What, Japan gets better online treatment than here.
@Yanina that's why I love how Nintendo allows us to play the Japanese app even being NSO subscriber from other region.
Ufouria needs to come to NSO.
Ah nuts, I was hoping they'd get Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War
Time for the Nintendo 64.
A ping-pong snes game??? hmm
@TheFullAndy is the Wii Play table tennis minigame based on this one? they both really look alike
@Luigivaldo
Never tried Wii Play but the table tennis in Wii Sports Resort looks inspired by it.
Get that game into the rest of the world NES online apps Nintendo!
Wouldn't say it's necessarily better than the western lineup.
I hear that Super Dodge Ball sequel isn't as good as the NES original.
I wouldn't get my hopes up for a Hebereke game.
Beyond the Famicom original, the SFC got a bunch of spinoffs, and it was kind of downhill from there, wasn't it?
Hashire Hebereke I think was some kind of top-down single-screen racing game, wasn't it?
Then this Sugoi Hebereke. Not sure what that is.
And then there are the two Hebereke games I bought actual SFC copies of years ago. The two puzzle games that Europe also got. I only remember one of them was Hebereke's Legally Not Doctor Mario and another one I don't even remember what it was, but was probably a Puyo-puyo or Columns clone.
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