Nintendo Expands Its Switch Online SNES Service With Three More Titles

Where's Cybernator?

On another note, Japanese NSO is getting an SMT game

It’s like they want people to stop subscribing.

(Copypasting from my comment in the forums...)
On the one hand, I get the feeling that the NES/SNES/Etc. Online apps may last MUCH longer than people may expect, becoming this thing that will be around for multiple generations with an ever-growing catalog.
On the other, if this is true, then said catalog will be mostly limited to Nintendo's first-party titles (which follow their own meticulously-planned and kind-of-frustrating-for-fans schedule) and whatever other obscure stuff they manage to get from smaller developers who agree to their terms and don't own prestigious enough titles/series to sell in compilations later. Hence, what got announced today.

I have never heard of any of these games before.

Wow, now that I have this I can cancel my Steam Deck order...

At least throw us a JRPG bone or something when you keep giving Japan the goods Ninty.

Oh great. More games that no one has ever heard of before. Why do they do this? Where are third party games like mighty morphin power rangers, teenage mutant Ninja turtles 4 turtles in Time, aladdin, the lion king, Battletoads and double dragon the ultimate team, mighty morphin power rangers the movie, mighty morphin power rangers the fighting edition, home alone 2 lost in New York?

Nintendo clearly has no other games for the NES and SNES, so I think it's about time to move to the next console. I think the Game Boy family should be next!

I remember renting Claymates as a little kid. Excited to revisit that one.

Come on nintendo, I dont want to unbox my snes mini to play mario rpg, bring it already!

@topher6490 I'd argue they only want Japanese subscribers. We have had bottom of the barrel stuff in the West for ages, including less games, poorer quality games and still paying the same (or more in some places).

I remember Claymates. There was this character named Taffy that looked liked Gumby. This was a fun brawler that reminded me of Killer Instinct. Nope that was Clayfighters. What the Cock-a-doodle-doo is this. Me saying to myself please don’t rant contain yourself.

@Bryon15 Most of the titles you mentioned probably have licensing issues Nintendo may not want to deal with...

Come on Nintendo, just add GameCube and N64 game services at a higher yearly price!

Just try to think of the NSO service as a kind of edutainment, preserving obscure video games, and it’s not so bad. 😅

@Bryon15 And some are available elsewhere on switch

Are they even trying?

@Teksetter In fairness some of these unknown titles are quite fun, but there's just no meat to their bones. Too many games (good or bad) on the service seem to be 5-10 minute killers and then never touched again.

Had no idea Bombuzal made it to SNES. Had this on C64

What a load of carp!

Bombuzal sounds like a real blast. I’m not being funny, it really does sound fun!

I don't play NES / SNES games from Switch Online service as I have no longer interest with them.

At this point, why do they even bother pumping out new games? I feel like it annoys more people than any positives that come out of these releases. But maybe I’m just missing something.

Virtual Consooooole!!! (Think Kirk yelling: ‘Khaaaaaaaaann!!’ (ST 2).

@Bryon15 all those are licensed games that have ZERO chances of ever arrive

Not even gonna bother updating just to avoid re-organizing my front page of games.

Seeing the addition of Claymates is awesome. I never played it, but I really enjoyed Clayfighter and remember seeing ads for Claymates in old magazines. Gonna check it out now.

Just when you thought it couldn't get any more mediocre.... I've gone from feeling excited when hearing "new switch online titles announced" to being disappointed before I've even clicked on the link

I think is obvious by now that the big third parties (capcom, konami, etc.) have no interest in bringing their big guns to the service leaving Nintendo with small and obscure games to fill it.

Not necessarily bad games. But not the ones one think of when talking about SNES.

Japan got SMT If...

The Switch in that region has literally every pre-Nocturne main game, Nocturne and SMT V

I'm so f*cking done Nintendo

this maybe the most disappointing game selection yet... like I didn't even know any of these games existed...

“What do you think of the Switch Online retro games for the month of July? Leave a comment down below”.
Manure 💩
Vomit 🤢
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Barbra Streisand…………………..

@shoeses which brings us to another Nintendo Switch failure..no folders for easy organizing.

Man Thats sad.

NSO is just so meh, the best thing they did was the tickets for purchasing games at a discount and even that was removed from the US

Switch online: The most mediocre of libraries for the greatest of systems.

It's not working, Nintendo. Just let us buy the games we actually want instead of drip-feeding us shovelware.

Does the continued conspicuous absence of EarthBound suggest that Nintendo is working on a remaster/remake or some such and doesn't want to make the SNES version available on the online service?

@nib0 Switch Pro launch title of course.

Next update: Chuck Rock, Captain Novolin, Ballz 3D, Lester the Unlikely and Donkey Kong Math SP edition.

I could tell they weren't going to be very exciting when their names weren't even included in the article's title. lol

@Bryon15 A lot of what you just listed are expensive to license. Then, assuming they have the source code at all, and being third party titles, they probably don't, they would need additional coding to make them work on the emulator, then optimizing, promoting through updating their websites at a minimum... the list goes on. And all for a minority (let's face it, most people play Switch for Switch games, not the NSO games) of players, some of which are only paying £4 a YEAR for the service. Not to mention that some of these third parties are selling these games for actual money on other platforms, so won't want to give Nintendo the licenses and damage their sales elsewhere.

It's just not worth it, for Nintendo or the third parties.

I think people need to temper their expectations a little. It's not like Konami or Capcom are going to bring any games to the table, since they're doing their own retro collections and putting any on here would cut into potential profits.

It is slightly curious that Nintendo doesn't put Earthbound or work out an arrangement with Square to put Super Mario RPG on the service. Hell, I'm still waiting for Zoda's Revenge on the NES front.

That aside, there isn't really much left on the NES or SNES for Nintendo to bring over unless they start putting time and money into translations for Japan-only games, which they certainly aren't about to do.

If anything, I do agree it's an issue that Nintendo hasn't moved on to another system by now. Or, if they don't have plans to do that for whatever reason, they should offer some kind of method for people to purchase those games.

I guess what I'm saying is if you're going to be mad, be mad for the right reasons and use a little common sense.

I’m actually very happy with Bombuzel. It was Ka-Blooey in the states. I like only a few puzzle games, and this is one that I’ve missed playing.

At this point I don’t think Nintendo will add N64, or even GBA games to this service… at least not for a long long time.

I’ve gone back to using the Wii U virtual console and its been really fun. GBA games look awesome on it. I definitely recommend checking it out if you have access to it.

These virtual console games are getting downright insulting at this point. I’d be more happy with a toothbrush and toilet paper combo at this rate. What’s next huh? The game where you shoot the ducks - but they don’t even give us the gun to use?! Ugh I’m cancelling.

I only know about Claymates, not sure about the other two. I would had wish they give us ClayFighter instead. I would play all three ClayFighter Super NES games all year long if those are available, those were not the best fighting games ever but still super fun to play.

Sigh, still haven't renewed my NSO membership from after the first year. So many stellar SNES games out there and they give us Frickin Jelly Boy smh..

What the bleep? Can we finally just get Sega or Turbo Grafx-16 games on here? Licensing those might be easier at this point.

Super Mario RPG.
TMNT: Turtles in Time.
Mario Paint.

Where. Are. They.

@Benjinat earthbound? 😿

@HotGoomba ...or at the same price.

I’ll admit these games don’t interest me, but I see no reason to complain.
And hey, this time there was a kinda theme- Games with… “Unique” art styles?

Played through Claymates on my Evercade. It's fun! Not groundbreaking, but charming. Worthwhile. I like the sound of that bomb game too.

Even skipping the obvious liscenced games that will never see the light of day, it's not unreasonable to expect Actraiser, Soulblazer, Terranigma, Cybernator, Ogre Battle, Skyblazer, Saturday Night Slam Mastets, Lufia II or etc. There are several cult favorites that arent 1st tier money printing franchises in the SNES library that would have a reasonable home on switch online.

Wow, we're passed the bottom of the barrel

@Jmjfrank TMNT IV is liscenced and will never see the light of day.

Mario paint is obsolete and at best a niche game... besides, i dont see how they can apply the mouse.

And Mario RPG is intentionally being withheld because Nintendo hates us all.

@Moistnado
Ok there's a few things wrong with that statement.

1. GameCube and N64 games cost more to emulate than NES and SNES, so having a higher tier for them makes sense.

2. Do you really expect Nintendo to give us a good deal?

Still waiting for Nintendo to make the service worth signing up for.

It's their loss. I'm a potential customer they have failed to win over in this regard.

Geez... what is all this crap?
I'm glad I hacked my Snes and Nes minis a long time ago.

Whew, wow. My god. The classics.

What's amazing and frankly embarrassing is that Nintendo thinks games approaching 30 years old are as valuable as current gen ones. Like we should all be so honored they are bestowing them upon us. Tone deaf doesn't even begin to describe this. The old guard there really needs to be dismantled.

Why bother adding these games? If this is all we’re going to get, put a lid on the apps, call them good, and move on to something else (like a different system, like the N64). This isn’t worth Nintendo’s time or ours.

@XenoShaun
Excellent point about some of these more obscure games! I guess there’s a reason why ultimately they never emerged as universally-beloved hits.

Really I haven’t played any of these lesser-known NSO games for more than a few minutes, like you said - except for Fire & Ice (Solomon’s Key 2), which is a fun puzzler I’ve sunk a few hours into so far.

@nib0 This is my guess. There's no reason for them to not add EarthBound or Mother 1 otherwise since both were on the Wii U (With EB also being on 3DS and the SNES Classic). I'm guessing we'll see some sort of trilogy remake collection in the next year or two personally.

Oh, man! For a moment I thought that was Jerry Boy (otherwise known as Smart Ball), a game made by Game Freak way before Pokémon. Now I'm disappointed.

Never heard of these, though for a moment I thought Claymates was ClayFighter, remember renting a game in the series when I was younger, I think the N64 one. Looking it up, and finding out it's a platformer in a similar style, I'm genuinely curious now.

@HotGoomba
1. Tell that to the communities who figured out how to emulate N64 games a long time ago. For all we know, Nintendo could be using the same downloadable roms on Switch Online for the current offerings.

And THIS, ladies and gentlemen, is why I’m getting a Steam Deck and encourage others to do so as well since it’s basically a portable PC, which means it can run emulators but the main reason is:

I’m tired of getting burned by companies like Nintendo who either refuse to release their old catalog of game libraries or when they do, release games that no one asked for or, release them in an overpriced collection of ports that have little to no changes to justify the price.

And on that note, it’s a real shame that the only publisher who is keeping their retro library up to date and NOT starting over from scratch is Microsoft.

Go ahead and flame me for this, I know I’m the minority, but I hate playing most NES games they feel awful to play have little direction and just aren’t fun. I really don’t feel Nintendo is adding anything worth paying for except for the games that you already payed for to play.

Now roast me I deserve it!

I think Cybernator is more worthy than Earthbound

If I really wanted an RPG on NSO, it'd probably be some of the Ultima games

It Nintendo intentionally does organize software droughts how they handled this service makes sense, if they’ve decided with Switch to see how far they can push droughts then this makes makes horrific sense. They’re getting all kinds of data pointing towards that they can get away with anything for their subscription service so it’s only gonna get worse from here. If Gameboy or even N64 happens it won’t be how you’d expect they’re gonna apply what they learned with 3D All Stars and make games for it limited time only, this shift in attitude likely started when they shifted towards “whenever we feel like it and always less than what we were offering monthly” for adding games which was a huge u-turn form how almost every monthly subscription service like this operates.
@SeantheDon29
You don’t even need to wait for that just get a RG351V.

This is awesome. Three games I haven't played and likely wouldn't have played. This is exactly what I want from NSO - new experiences!

I love when people say that Nintendo is "almost out" of games to bring over to the NES/SNES. There were 700+ games released for the NES and 600+ games released for the SNES. Even if you take out all the games you won't release due to licensing or that will be released separately via collections, you still have plenty to release.

The service is fine. It's 100+ games for $20 a year. A better deal than Virtual Console.

Gee it'd be nice to get Strike Gunner STG, Jackal, Earthbound Beginnings, Earthbound, Illusion of Gaia, Terranigma, Secret of Evermore, Actraiser, Actraiser II, Soul Blazer, Sim City, Wings 2, Carrier Aces, Zoda's Revenge Star Tropics II, Super Mario RPG, EVO Search for Eden, Air Fortress, or even Gameboy or 64 games, but I understand I should just be happy they secured the rights for these for mere pennies. Good move.

@The-Nate The Ultima games were my favorite on the NES.Do you know who owns them now? EA games, that’s who. The music on Ultima Exodus was mesmerizing as a child. I drew the whole map and I drew all the characters.

@Illusion And Cybernator

Also, vague Monkey's Paw-ish moment: We get "64" games, as in Commodore 64 like the Wii's Virtual Console

But that's ok since new generations will be able to experience hits like the Monty Mole series and Impossible Mission

Keep in mind that these NES and SNES games are ultimately just a bonus to justify charging for their online service this generation. Nintendo Switch Online is first and foremost meant for playing online multiplayer in Switch games.

Where is the good stuff? Actraiser, Mystical Ninja and others? Where is GBA?

@JSDude1 At this point I'd be content with just being able to put the front page of games in a set order. But yeah, still not having folders is weird. In the same vein I'm still surprised they haven't given us more background themes, even if it was just more basic colors.

They seem really hesitant to add N64 & GB games to the service. Only reason I can think of is those are games that have more potential for future remakes maybe? What about WiiWare games, can't get those anymore so that'd be a way to add new stuff that doesn't take effort.

I'm looking forward to all the ebegging YouTube goon squad posting videos tomorrow with thumb nails of ridiculous faces whining about these games.

oh please, Test drive 2 and Sim City, please?, please?!

@shoeses Actually, it would take quite a bit of effort to port WiiWare games to the Switch's architecture (as the Switch isn't powerful enough to emulate Wii games) and then rework the motion controls in most of them to work without a sensor bar.

@kingbk This service is really not fine and you know it. I’m sorry 😞.I don’t mean to point it out, but I want my pitchfork. I know $20a year is not a lot but how much money is Nintendo making on us? There’s probably like 80 million users and let’s say about half on the online service. 40,000,000×20 dollars a year is $800 million. I’m pretty sure they can afford to make this just a little bit better considering the Wii, the WiiU, and the 3DS. I rarely use the online service and these games belong in a toilet, a trash dumpster. They belong in a landfill. I promised myself I wouldn’t rant…… But I’m going to.

@SalvorHardin already have the M version but thanks.

Nintendo's bargain bin picks are getting old. The SNES is a JRPG goldmine, but NSO's selection would lead you to believe otherwise.

@shoeses Maybe it's because they didn't do Mini consoles for those and have no plans to?

@River3636 It's fine. Not great. Not terrible. Fine. For $20 a year, I've played a lot of games. If I was paying $20 a month, I would be more angry.

This is just sad and depressing.... how about some good news? Any word on that Castlevania Advance collection?

I do not know them, so i am looking forward to test them

People are complaining that they release B-Ware, but in that Way they offer me Titles i wasn't really aware of or couldn't get my Hands on (and i own 80 Super Nintendo Games, sometimes i am even to lazy to get the rom and dump it on my SD2SNES).

@pipes You can buy the Sega Genesis collection for the Switch. It's 50 some games for like $30 or something.

@dustinprewitt
Those games are too big for Nintendo Switch Online, because I remember seeing ads for Ballz 3D and Lester the Unlikely.

@kingbk I guess it feels like an ongoing joke. Every time games come out on Switch Online. We had some excitement, but now we know that Lucy is going to pull the football away before we kick it. They should just released classics and let us pay for it individually like before.I would rather do that then pay $20 a year for games I don’t even play and an online service that I I haven’t used in two years.

@kingbk But NSO isn't just an isolated subscription service in a vacuum. While it fulfills basic criteria like allowing online play, it's also the Switch's alternative to the infinitely superior Virtual Console.

@Teksetter Yeah it seems the game needs to really click with you to be more than a short playtime. (Good choice with fire & ice).

@jtmnm I'm all for more obscure titles making to NSO, but please add something of actual quality like Zool

And truth be told, I wouldn't care if all JRPGs got erased from existence

@Sunsy @River3636 Claymates is actually by the same dev as Clayfight, it’s their lesser known platformer and a childhood favorite of mine. I’m super hyped to see it actually come to the service, I was certain it was dead and gone for good!

@The-Nate Must suck to have bad taste.

Not going to lie, seeing Claymates on this list was not expected...but I'll definitely accept it because i actually had fun with the game....though I could never get past the first world.

Let me guess "I never heard of these so these games suck" comments all over.

Claymates was one of my childhood games, I thought it was great. Though I might be alone in that.
Too bad the cool lenticular box doesn't hold up to time, as I have found out with the CIB copy I have sitting on my desk somewhere.

Bombuzal was originally known as Kablooey! in North America. I wonder why the name change on NSO?

What in God's name...

Nintendo, stop trolling us

Though Jelly Boy is quite a tease,
as there is one game/franchise we are probably never going to get with a similar name: Jerry Boy, or SmartBall in America.
A Game Freak platformer by probably since Sony originally published it, we will never see it again (nor its almost finished and released sequel Jelly Boy 2).

@jtmnm Must suck to like such slow turn-based slop, maybe pay $30 for Turrican on the eShop if you want a change

I know he's attacking enemies with his belly, but we all know what the developers wanted that to remind us of.

This is clearly because the SNES had no more games left...
No.

If you are going to keep doing this, Nintendo, just forget about the SNES and release the GB and GBA games already!

Nostalgia is the key here people. I happen to enjoy Claymates, it was fun and I am looking forward to trying the other two.

@The-Nate Must suck to be incapable of planning your moves ahead and blind/deaf to the best art, music and storytelling in the entire medium.

3 more bad games nobody wants

Wake me up when Sparkster and Plok are added to this bare bones VC

@jtmnm > the best art, music and storytelling

Hey, the first two of those apply to the Turrican series pretty well

Also, I have ADHD, so of course I want to get to the goddamn point as soon as possible and I want to be able to understand things easily, which is probably also why I like watching old 80's cartoons that are blatant toy advertisements

@Fazermint Jelly Boy was okay from what I played of it ages ago. Can't think of many other games where you're basically punching things with your, uhhhhh beavis and butthead laugh. (At least, that's what it looked like)

@the_beaver b-but...that might actually require some work on their part

@The-Nate Must suck. (Me too, but I guess we cope differently.) Try Ys. Oath in Felghana is a good place to start.

Know any good emulators?

@jtmnm Anything science-fiction with cool power armor that doesn't feel too "anime"?

I feel like Nintendo is purposely holding out on us for when times are rough for them and they need to persuade people again. That's the only explanation for this as far as I'm concerned.

A few things:

1). The people who, month after month, beg for licensed games like TMNT—are you high? How do you not understand how licensing works?

2). The big guns such as Capcom, Konami, and the like have already released many of their biggest games, for purchase. You can have basically the entire 8/16 bit Contra and Castlevania libraries; every mainline Mega Man and X game is available to purchase. Every pre-Street Fighter IV entry is available for purchase. Square Enix has rereleased pretty much every Mana game, and I promise that Final Fantasy I-6 will make it to the Switch eventually.

I’ll admit that these games do kind of suck (there’s usually at least one game worth defending). However, try to be realistic. You’re not getting Ninja Turtles, or X-Men, or the Simpsons Arcade. They rereleased them on PS3/360, but they must not have sold all that well because no further attempt has been made to make them more widely available.

@The-Nate I suggested Ys because it's like a top-down Zelda mixed with Mega Man X. It's a fast-paced hack and slash, and you get to blow things up with magic. It's a ton of fun. Its soundtrack rocks, too.

You can try Phantasy Star. I think someone mentioned the Genesis collection already. You can pick it up for $30 or so on Steam, and it has all of the Phantasy Star games. They're old, though, but they're cool.

Idea proposal: how about you don't get to moan about how "bad" a game is if you haven't played it yet? Lack of knowledge doesn't mean leak of quality. Claymates is a fun platformer and Jelly Boy will surprise a lot of people

😄 It's just for schitz and giggles at this point because you throw money at Nintendo like she's a stripper you wanna wife

@The-Nate Also Xenogears on PS1. Mechs and stuff, and its combat is executed by button combinations. It's pretty active for a turn-based game.

So glad i have a Nes and Snes mini! I can play any game i want to and i don't have to wait around for Nintendo to drip feed us 3 games every six months. As a bonus some PS1 games like Mega man x4,5,6 and Symphony of the night will run on them too!

This switch online thing is an unbelievable crock of you know what.

@jtmnm Actually, at this point, I'd probably just settle for my own parody "JRPG" game idea, which is basically "Cable from X-Men in the world of Genshin Impact"

Well, without actual Cable and actual Genshin Impact, of course

@The-Nate You do you, man. I still think Ys would be a solid recommendation, though. Those games are crazy fun.

@BanjoPickles yeah, that’s pretty much obvious and I really feel sorry for the people who don’t get that yet, but what about throwing Gameboy on there and Gameboy Advance games? N64? I know we can forget GameCube. This service is mediocre at best, Feces with corn in it at worst. Wow that was pretty graphic. I do apologize but you get the point.

Can't even give us games we've at least heard of? I don't think you need to hold back games like Pinball, Urban Champion, & StarTropics 2.

@RetroOutcast Lol, yes, that's true. And they clearly don't want to do anything that requires much effort to get money from us. They'll get it anyway, it seems.

I think these obscure games on the service are great. I have other means of playing the classics, but there are so many great games and indies on the console already. Life is short with a lot of new games to experience.

Now if you’ll excuse, time to play Overwatch for the billionth time.

@HotGoomba 1) no N64 and GameCube games do not cost more to emulate. I emulated some just today and it was free.

2) I have very low expectations of Nintendo but they never fail to disappoint.
If nintendo wants to make money, they need to provide a better service than the free rom sites. All they need to do is sell the games for a few pounds each, and have no viruses, have a D-Pad on the console, let the games you bought work the next gen machines like Sony do, like you own them after you paid for them.

@BanjoPickles - Not to mention the Arcade Archives (which is rather big at this point) and Sega Ages lines.

@River3636 - It really doesn't make sense why they don't take the same philosophy they took for the Wii U exclusives like Mario Kart 8 and Super Mario 3D World of "Well, the games didn't get a fair shake due to the Wii U failing, so why not see if they'll work on Switch?" with the Wii U Virtual Console. I mean, I get they're trying out a subscription model to see if that works, but you can do that, and still work the Wii U VC library into it. Heck, if the current price is too low to justify it, why not add a premium tier that allows access to additional consoles? Or two, and have the first allow access to, say, GB/GBA/N64 titles, while the second allows access to GC/Wii/DS titles?

It's great that folks keep rattling off names of games like Terranigma or Cybernator that Nintendo doesn't own or have control over. It's not like they just flip a switch and put it up there.

I did enjoy Claymates as a kid but what's with this slow drip feeding of games and discontinuing the likes of Mario 35 for no good reason. At this point I'm unlikely to renew my subscription and even forgetting the glaring omissions from Nintendo's own games, why do we still only have NES and SNES games? You've got Nintendo tweeting about Metroid Fusion all whilst providing no way to play it on their now 4 year old Switch. It's embarrassing that the Wii some 15 years ago had a far better setup for classic games and a much better library because of it

The negative comments are hilarious! 'These aren't games I know or played, Nintendo are so lazy.'

Have you heard yourselves. The only pre-erquisite needed is they are SNES games. eventually NSO will have most of the SNES library which will be fab as it's my fave console - after Switch lol. (dare say some games will have license issues etc.)

Strong Amiga vibe this month lol. Played Bamboozal on my Atari ST and it was pretty good. (Not sure how it's aged lol)

@Penlab well, Nintendo managed to put Cybernator on Wii and Wii U virtual console easily enough...

So many complaints.😕

I actually really enjoyed Claymates growing up, and Bombuzai/ Kablooey I saw advertised in GamePro and EGM before.

The other game, I actually am interested in.

These are all games I would have renter back in my childhood so if the main opinion is disappointment, I guess I’m just the kind of guy who Nintendo was made for then.

Nothing wrong with these titles, but they should've been added AFTER Parodius, Super Mario RPG, Chrono Trigger, all the SNES Final Fantasy games, Earthbound, Super Bomberman, Super Bomberman 2, Super Famicom Wars, and probably others I just can't think of off the top of my head. There are so many awesome SNES and Super Famicom games that still aren't available.

@Penlab I completely agree with your reasoning. Thank you for that.

I know it’s the thing to crap on games we haven’t heard or played before. But for anyone who actually played these games, any of them any good? Claymates looks decent.

Oh please come on! Isn't it time for the gba to be added to this service? Metroid fusion, zelda minish cap, Mario vs donkey Kong. Instead of adding this crap?

did that pinky guy in the second game really hit the enemies with his penis?

@Severian @KingMike @DropDash
I couldn’t remember the US title: Ka-Blooey. Thanks!

@shonenjump86 If I remember right, Bombuzal had near seizure inducing backgrounds, but the puzzle elements were solid. It is an isometric puzzler.

@Bryon15 are you a mighty morphin power rangers fan by any chance? 😜

I’m sure Bombuzal was a rush job launch title from Imagineer for the Super Famicom and reviews at the time were less than favourable.

Despite multiple licensing issues and other hurdles including cost, Nintendo could do better than these.

@BrazillianCara I think you make a good point and it's something people don't consider. The app will more easily move over to new generations and (hopefully) is a sigh Nintendo is building for the future, which they weren't with Virtual Console. But the second point you make actually leads into why I think the idea of the old school Virtual Console isn't as appealing to developers anymore, anyway.

A lot of these developers would rather release their own collections, remasters, ports, remakes, etc and get larger profit margins with more significant releases rather than offering substantial amounts of their backlog for cheap or "free" with subscription. A lot of blame gets thrown at Nintendo for not releasing tons of third party games that people want, but I'm sure it's not that simple.

As for why they don't release a few of their high profile exclusive titles, like Earthbound, I don't know. I'm sure there's that isn't just "Nintendo hates its fans", though. Maybe the licensing with Sony makes it expensive since Sony Media owns some of the music. Maybe they have Nintendo-esque plans to do a remake/remaster trilogy/etc and while said plans aren't solid (and may never materialize), they were advised not to offer it until then. I don't know. Could be anything.

@X68000 I actually kind of like Bombuzal, despite its obvious failings. 😅

@JSDude1 then it should be “Virtual Connnnnnnsole!” 😉

Apparently almost no one has heard of these games so these are practically new releases. 3 more titles and you don't have to pay $60 for each - what's there not to like?? Nintendo haters still throwing tantrums, I say throw them instead.
/s

@Bryon15 Most of the games you mention were licensed games which is hard for Nintendo to re-release and rare when they did, you could get the 1st Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Nes game on Wii's VC but you had to pay extra cus it was a licensed ip, same with the Indy and Super Star Wars games.

@Benjinat They should really, the Wii U already had great Emulation of Game Boy Advance and DS games, only having NES and SNES seems such a step back even after the Wii's VC

I wish Konami did not own Hudson Soft because I want to see their games come to the NES and SNES switch online services.

And it's no good, and you know what we say every time something strange happens, it's good that Nintendo did that, it's very good!

@Bryon15 your list is basically all licensed titles. The rights holders would want way too much money to allow their properties to be used. You’re looking at ROMs if you want to play these games today.

@HungryHungryHomer @Moistnado When I said cost to emulate, I meant from an official emulator point of view, not a free one made by fans.

Also, Skyward Sword HD is like $60, which is overpriced even if you consider the improvements.

And to clarify, I did not mean that $30 a year was a bad thing, just that it was likely.

Love the obscure choices. But they could also put in some highlights too for good measure..

Oh jolly -_- Thanks Nintendo.

@Screen I agree, only the NES Mario games are fun to me.. and maybe Zelda 1 and Duck Tales, because of nostalgia

@the_beaver That's the problem when a company has several decades of brand recognition/loyalty and a fanbase that will defend any stupid decision said company makes. At least people are starting to wake up to the fact that Nintendo has gotten extremely lazy.

It's scary to think that in the near future, they may try and charge us $20-30 for a licensed ROM of Super Mario Bros. and I'm sure there will still be people out there who pull the "bE gRatEfuL" card.

Good, I love obscure games, but I miss NES additions here. If they've abandoned it, they could have added 5 or 6 games to the SNES library instead.

Holy crap, Claymates is really good, one of my childhood favourites wasn't expecting that!

Weird there's only three releases and no NES games though, could they really be them to a close now to bring in another console? 🤞

Can confirm Claymates is a solid side scroller.

Despite this, NSO is a joke and should be treated as such.

The negativity in this comments section is astounding.

So once again we have no ‘big’ (that is, popular) titles for NSO. We get it - it’s already clear that Nintendo isn’t dipping into certain franchises either because of contractual issues or because said studios would rather release compilations/remasters. Who can blame them?

But to write off every new NES/SNES release with the usual “it looks boring/never heard of it/just what I wanted… not” comments, before even playing the games, is ridiculous.

They may not be the games you want, but give Nintendo credit for unearthing a host of titles that many of us (myself included) never got round to playing back in the day. And it doesn’t cost us any more - it’s still the same price, so there’s no risk.

So come on… let’s be more positive!

@Emperor-Palpsy I think the reception of these kind of games would be a more popular if at least all the first party games were on there or being added each update... Aside from the big names they're not even throwing interesting lesser known smaller titles like Mario and Wario on there anymore. 😔 Something like that could've been the 4th game this month.

I do wonder if a Mario RPG remake might be in the works especially as Nintendo and Square are remaking a lot of games lately. I mean it was even on the SNES Mini.

Looks like they brokered a deal with Interplay since these are European style games.
I admit had played and own Claymates. The other two I never owned but remember seeing Bomboozal at rental stores all the time.

@ChromaticDracula

It is, looks like ass but plays really well.

@Emperor-Palpsy,

Exactly, the service is awesome value and it's nice to see some more obscure games too.

@Screen agree, NES games are, for want of a better word, awful. Games of their time unfortunately, better left in the past.

Usual fanheaded bellyaching here (if CGC is such an insult to the subscription in your eyes, time to let it expire - all those Smash Bros and Animal Crossings are unironically fun in single player anyway), but the lineup focuses on particularly peculiar gameplay specimens in SNES library this time. Atlus is clearly not in the mood to translate entire RPGs for such a service, but getting the entire SNES lineup of SMT games into my legal access domain is welcome anyway, and IIRC this entry - more or less a spiritual predecessor to Persona subfranchise - has a patch as well. Although with the first game, I ended up going after a patched Advance port instead - easier than to separately patch a map shortcut button into the original.😅

I will continue to be happy that I only effectively pay $7 annually for NSO via sharing the family plan with 4 other people.

I love it how people feel so entitled lmao.

@HotGoomba the thing is, this 20 dollars a year I paid, has no value proposition for me and many others. The collection of nes and snes games misses key titles, and most Nintendo fans have a better selection elsewhere, like on a SNES mini, which they also probably do not play, but at least save data is not locked behind a paywall with other ways of playing. Playing Mario kart and other games online has connectivity problems and was free on Wii U and Wii. I don't think Nintendo has proper servers? I genuinely have not used the 'service' for 99% of the year. I tried a SNES game but would rather play on a device that wasn't tethered to a subscription and online verification, I also tried and failed at playing Mario kart online multiplayer a couple of times. Nintendo can't increase the price for more games when most people don't consider their current offerings to be of any value in the first place.

@Bryon15,

So you would rather have games we have all owned and played to death, sounds like a reasonable request, then of course when this does happen people complain that Nintendo are being lazy, by releasing the same games over and over.

Rock and a hard place springs to mind.

@Frankstarr,

Yes a free part of the online service, and yet people still complain, well a few people on the internet do anyway.

I keep forgetting the NES and SNES apps are a thing! I played each of them once and uninstalled them. I'm only paying to play mk8 online and the cloud data is handy I suppose but even then I think skip renewing it this year.

@johnvboy free* part of the online service

• Not free (costs money).

@johnvboy i love watching people complain 🤣

Bombuzal is an excellent game many hours spent on this in the C64 days

Actually with all these amorphous protagonists in Claymates and Jelly Boy, they should have thrown in Smart Ball to complete the mix.

Cool! Bombuzal is a great game!

@Bryon15 "More games that no one has ever heard of before. Why do they do this?"

You answered your own question before you asked it. They are pushing the lesser known games. Surely if you are all for "Game preservation" that should apply to all games, not just the popular ones.

Jesus, Nintendo fans are the biggest bunch of whingers.

@Emperor-Palpsy @BanjoPickles Don't go bringing logic into this comment section, SNES online articles are all about seething, using "we" instead of "I" and people thinking they're talking directly to Nintendo...

Virtual Console isn't coming back, all the third party companies who released the biggest titles on the NES and SNES are releasing or have released their own collections, Hamster covered the Neo Geo, Sega brought out their own collection and M2 are doing their thing. Do these people expect Nintendo to buy out all those titles off these companies to stop a few thousand people crying on gaming sites?

Looking forward to the next SNES online article!

Here are the review scores given by Super Play magazine:

Claymates - 79%
Jelly Boy - 61%
Bombuzal - 48%

I used to enjoy reading the complaining on these articles, but it's clear they've run out of creative ways to whine. Are they even trying? It's like they want people to stop reading their complaints. Bring back Vir--uh, I mean, bring back the quality whining!

@Emperor-Palpsy I totally agree with you. Even if you only want must-haves, we're talking about a subscription that costs small change, if you play it well. And it's a simple perk anyway. People pays online in order to play against others in modern games, mostly. So the comment section of these articles is always full of complaints about a free addition. Nonsense.

YAY, MORE GARBAGE!

Never heard of them.

People are moaning about this as usual but I'm looking forward to trying out these games. Just because you've never heard of them doesn't mean they're terrible.

@ShadJV Neat, I'm seeing good things said about it, so I'm looking forward to trying it.

@Dogorilla Agreed, also for me at least, sometimes never hearing about a game makes me curious and want to try it myself. Sometimes games I overlooked or never heard of become new favorites.

When will Nintendo understand that I want to play the same first party titles I've played a million times before and not these obscure games I've never heard of? I can't believe this is happening to me

@Dr_Corndog What's missing is the classic "at this rate we won't get N64 games until 2036!!??!?!!!"

@Sunsy Yeah, and they're ideal for a subscription service like this. I probably wouldn't buy a game on Virtual Console that I'd never heard of before unless it got really good reviews, but with Switch Online I can just try them out with no commitment. And it's nice for obscure games like these ones to be given a new lease of life, not just the classics that have already been re-released several times.

It’s like the games are being chosen by somebodies aunt.

I like the attitude of "I've never heard of it, therefore it must be terrible" on the same site whose community tries to champion indie titles announced as recently as a month ago which the rest of the world hasn't heard of and dismisses as rubbish.

Why, just why? When Games like Lufia I and II are not on the switch, Illusion of Time/Gaia, Terranigma, Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy's all missing, we get JELLY BOY? Jelly Boy??? JELLY BOY??? No, Nintendo, NO! BAD NINTENDO!

The more hits that get released, the fewer hits there are to release in the future. Back in 2020 there were 4 big games released on NSO outside Japan:

• DKC (July 2020)
• Super Mario All Stars (September 2020)
• DKC2 (September 2020)
• DKC3 (December 2020)

So if the remaining big games connected to Nintendo (e.g. Super Mario RPG) are going to appear this year they'd most likely appear in September when people question whether to re-subscribe to NSO.

"Stop giving us those games no one cares, give us Nintendo 64 games."

They would give us Nintendo 64 games no one cares, no one cared even in the 1990s, like Dual Heroes and Dark Rift.

There are still dozens of good and famous NES and SNES games missing.

Well, I'm definitely going to enjoy that Steam Deck when mine comes in. Nintendo keeps making me feel less guilty about emulating games that are no longer available.

@Barbara001 these releases aren't for you we get it

Why are they bringing ***** now?

C'Mon, having us waiting for this kind of games that no one cares... Nintendo Switch Online is still the worse service of all.

@WiltonRoots I don’t think no one is talking to Nintendo. I think Nintendo does their own thing. I also think my subscription ends in November. It is just a measly $20 a year that adds up if every one of US who own this service doesn’t like it and cancels it. I mean it’s cheaper than a GrubHub meal. I have multiple collections: Sega, SNK, MegaMan, Castlevania, SquarEnix, etc.. I’m all for Obscure games, but the lack of RPGs is insulting to ME. It’s kind of like streaming service swaps. I finished watching the Mandalorian on Disney so now I’m onto Picard on Paramont plus.You do not have what I want I do not want to pay. Nintendo doesn’t give me that option and as cheap as the service is, you literally get what you pay for.

What the f**k is this s**t???!?!?!??? This is pathetic.

Claymates is a good game to bring up whenever any Genesis fanboy says the SNES can't do fast games because it doesn't have "Blast Processing": https://youtu.be/Y-EPe6NceB0?t=162

Not going to lie: I am actually keen to play Bombuzal again! I had the original as a free full price game on a cover disc (haha, remember those, fellow older gaming folk?) for the Amiga, I think it came with the launch issue of Amiga Power or Amiga Action or one of those.

@westman98 Yup, same. To be honest I'd continue to pay it just for cloud saves/transferring data between machines and for the occasional bit of online gaming via it (Tetris 99 is a weird intermittent addiction).

Honestly the NES/SNES stuff is a bit of a bonus, regardless. Too many good actual Switch games to keep up with, let alone going back and revisiting the oldies too much. (Having said that I did play through every level of Mario's Super Picross on the SNES for old times' sake, and do my nth time through Link to the Past...) So I just don't get the whinging at all...

@Benjinat There's loads of great games left for both of those systems, but, Nintendo . . .

As mentioned earlier, I eagerly await that Steam deck.

@Frankstarr,

Lot's of entertainment for you on here then

@Moistnado,

Very cheap part of the overall deal then.

This is why people emulate

@WiltonRoots,

Fun on here as usual.

@nib0 Does the continued conspicuous absence of EarthBound suggest that Nintendo is working on a remaster/remake or some such and doesn't want to make the SNES version available on the online service?

Oh stop with the speculation.

Speaking of this Jelly Boy/Smart Ball talk: You know what would be awesome? If they finally put the unreleased Jelly Boy 2 on NSO. It's highly unlikely- I'm just saying, it would be welcome.

@Dogorilla Just because you've never heard of them doesn't mean they're terrible.

Yeah it kinda does. If they were good people would have been talking about them on the internet for decades.

@Wordbonder these are classics from the SNES Days, and still probably better than most of the shovelware put out on steam today. Enjoy your gamegear 2.0 lol.

This is the Gamepass killer we have been waiting for! /s

@johnvboy some people just wanna watch the world burn

I played a crap ton of Claymates back in the day, even though I didn't really enjoy it. lol The concept was intriguing (it reminded me of Little Nemo: Dream Master on NES) but the controls were just a wreck.

Nintendo being Nintendo... out of touch with the fan base

@Crono1973 Not necessarily, some games just slip under the radar. All three of these games got at least some good reviews according to Wikipedia. I'm not expecting them to be up there with Super Metroid and Chrono Trigger but it should be fun to try them out given that I'm already subscribed to NSO so I don't have to pay any extra for them.

I see alot of people complaining about Nintendo digging the bottom of the barrel for games, but the problem is that most of the major third-party titles on the NES and SNES like Mega Man, Castlevania, Contra, and Dragon Quest all have either collections on the Switch or enhanced ports.

Other major issues is that stuff like the TMNT games are held back by licensing issues.

As for other major third party titles like Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy I, IV, VI, and Hudson Soft's backlog(Bomberman, Adventure Island, Bonk) those don't have special ports on the Switch yet, but Square Enix and Konami(Who own the rights to all of Hudson Soft's library) don't seem to want to put their games on the service.

Nintendo themselves don't really have much left in terms of first party software for the NES or SNES.

Earthbound Beginnings and Star Tropics II on the NES side and Earthbound and Super Mario RPG on the SNES side are the only major first-party titles not on the service yet. No doubt, they are saving these titles for the holiday season to push the online service.

This is made ever worse by the fact that since Fire Emblem and Famicom Wars never came to the west, lowering the number of first party games Nintendo has to potentially add.

With all these factors considered, this is why it seems like Nintendo is scraping the bottom of the barrel.

Games from lower tier third parties like Data East and Interplay is likely all they can get right now.

While I am not totally defending Nintendo, I get the impression they expected third-parties to pick up the slack and that simply has not happened.

Yeah, still a weak selection

This is how NSO is summed up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xfBw1bbV4k

@River3636 yeah I get your point, but the amount of times I see people post on here “this is not what we asked for Nintendo!!!!” makes me beg to differ. It’s peanuts, I’d love to see Actraiser and Soul Blazer myself, but chance would be a fine thing, who knows what hoops they’d have to jump through to make that happen as they’re old Enix games from before the merger. They’re more likely to appear on a Square Enix compilation. Nobody’s going to get exactly what they want for 4.5p a day. It’s just some complementary old school games as a side dish.

@Sszx09 Ive never played the game myself but I believe that there’s even a level that reads “Zzap 64” after a C64 magazine (the SNES game is a very literal port).

@johnvboy these articles never fail to deliver. For me it was worth it after the initial batch of releases. Only bought one game on VC on my Wii U, Ocarina of Time, and the emulation was terrible.

@Moistnado k

@Caryslan I completely agree. There are a few first party games left (often stuff that’s either weirder or had a SNES mouse focus) and a few likely easy “gets” from minor third parties (but then again most of those are either a- now owned by EA/Square/Konami or b- dead and possibly legally orphaned from a rights perspective).

I’ve actually enjoyed sampling some of these more obscure games - in many ways it feels authentic to the set of games we all experienced “back in the day”. It’s a more authentic presentation of what the NES and SNES actually were than a “top 20 games on SNES” list tends to be (especially since said lists are typically RPG heavy and hardly any RPGs were launched here in Europe and very few people bought the ones that were).

Sparky’s Quest is great - I’ve enjoyed that a lot, a Parasol Stars like arcade game I’d never previously heard of.

All of that said - I do think that the third party compilations occasionally (not always!) present their games with a bit more context and a bit more reverence for the content. What both the NES and SNES apps need IMO is a series of NES remix style short challenges for every game added that can be jumped into as an alternative to playing the whole game.

That would be IMO more important than “better games” because if you want to play MMX or Castlevania 3 on your Switch just buy the relevant collection.

@Dogorilla Indeed, sometimes an obscure game does interest me. Can't count how many times I bought a game on GOG that I never heard of, and loved it.

Sometimes a great game gets overlooked because of more popular games, and it's just waiting to be discovered again or for the first time.

@Dogorilla Good games don't fall under the radar when there are millions of YouTubers looking for an excuse to make a video.

Unless Atlus hires someone to translate there game, it won't be leaving Japan. Could always learn Japanese though

where are they even getting these games?! they KNOW which ones we want, and then use the sporadic updates to give us obscure BS like this?! COME ON!

I hate that i can't get the Japanese libraries on my account

@TheFrenchiestFry I am dying to get my hands on more smt/persona.... please throw us a bone here, nintendo!

@Bryon15 you can cross off all licensed games since they require the license to be renewed which they just aren’t going to pay for. You can also cross off Rare’s own games as they’re with Microsoft now. Donkey Kong Country is fine though but not the likes of Killer Instinct.

@InkIdols they’ll be saving the good games for when the service is in a slump and needs a boost. These games are just what they can acquire easily and cheaply. Some publishers still want to charge for their old games not have them given them away for free on NSO.

@Bass_X0 Yeah... that makes a lot of sense. Just easy to get caught up in the hate wave

Seriously ?
They are laughing at us

A lot of hate on here, but I'm going to be the opposite.

I have never heard of these before, much less played them, but I like that. As much as I like to get familiar games, I also like trying out games I never played before. How many times am I going to play through SMW? It has been released countless times. Yet, these games I've never heard of is something different. I don't understand the crying, I feel like they're giving a good mix of mainstream games and largely unknown games.

For those who look down on these games, know that there are two hidden gems in here. Only Bombuzal looks awful. Jelly Boy and Claymates are actually fun games. Odd how they used the original title Bombuzal from the Japanese, Amiga, Atari ST, and MS-DOS releases instead of the North American released title of Ka-Blooey.

Jelly Boy

Claymates

Bombuzal (Ka-Blooey)

@Blakeava1821 I plan to. ; )

@River3636 Well, people like you probably shouldn't be paying for the service in the first place. Most NSO subscribers get most of their value out of playing online multiplayer, while the retro games are mostly a bonus.

I might check out the two platformer games, see if they catch my interest.

@Susurrus I don't understand the crying, I feel like they're giving a good mix of mainstream games and largely unknown games.

First, no one is 'crying'. People are complaining because these games are being released instead of games people ask for. People will try these games for a few minutes and never touch them again. Meanwhile they won't release games like Earthbound and Mario RPG. Then we have other platforms like GBA and N64 that people are asking for.

It really is ridiculous. Nintendo fans make noise when they want something but why bother, Nintendo would rather release these games instead.

@BulbasaurusRex Your right. I don’t use the online service. And I do believe that there is a certain percentage of people like me who don’t use the online service and still pay the $20 a year. I mean I’m literally giving them $20.For What? Not only do I buy all of Nintendo’s consoles, I buy the upgrades. I buy there Marios, Zeldas, and Pokémon’s. So what this makes me entitled? I am a whiner? I am a complainer? Yes I am and so what. I know what I want and this is not it.

I'm excited!! I know people clamor for the classics like Earthbound and Mario RPG, but I really enjoy these random games that I never played when I was a kid.
Plus, my WiiU still works and I have both those games on that system.

Rubbishhhhhhh

@Blakeava1821 Just have a thought about how many of the Switch's advertised "thousands of games" were first released on Steam/PC. Another piece of thought - people who purchased a game on Steam 10 years ago can still play it on their current PC.

I wish it was Clayfighter instead

Seriously.... WHO PICKS THESE ABSOLUTELY WORTHLESS GAMES!?!?!?!

I don't play online games so I have NSO just for cloud saving. With the disappearance of the Virtual Console (with games for which I PAID!!!) can I please get some GOOD retro games on the Switch?!?!? Come on Nintendo....you are totally BS-ing us!!!!!

I have a list of about 30 NES and SNES games I want on the Switch. Not even mentioning N64 and GC games.... It's like Nintendo is begging us to pirate retro games.

@KoRn1619
Although my harsh complaining (#256) I do understand your point. But I would like to know how many of these unknown games you actually like. There are sooooo many new games releasing nowadays, and sooooo many good classics available (hardly any of which Nintendo is officially re-releasing), personally I'm not willing to waste my time on the off chance of finding a somewhat enjoyable but highly forgettable game.

@Wordbonder hopefully valve doesn’t kill it like they did with their steam players lol

I see so many crybabies on here! No one is forcing you to play a game just because you “never heard of it”. Grow up some. Nintendo Switch Online is Incredible and can only get better! These games are fantastic. Just because you never heard of a game doesn’t mean they are “bad games”.

@San_D lmfao that’s the biggest joke I’ve ever heard! You need a pc that is compatible with older games. Half of my older games are broken and unplayable on my newer pc. I have to do hours of searching and patching to fix the games just so it runs on the current platform.

@Vriess who writes these worthless posts! Wa wa wa

@Blakeava1821 I agree, I can’t even play Manhunt anymore. It crashes on my brand new Gaming PC, and yet fools want to waste their money on this steam d!ck.

@San_D Correction! NO YOU CANNOT! Manhunt, Garry’s Mod, along with other games I’ve purchased are broken on my New gaming PC! Not wasting my time nor money on the steam d!ck to play broken games and shovelware!

Wow............. I've never heard of any of these, yet, I'm really surprised Nintendo is digging so INCREDIBLY deep in the crates. Even I'm shocked, and I'm pretty tolerant.

@Crono1973 It's a legitimate question.

@SnesSwitch @Blakeava1821 My comment was in a more general sense, not about a particular game or two. As a counterpoint, Pandemonium, which is a PS1 era port game works on my PC. How many of your Wii U or Wii purchases work on Switch? I am not supporting Steam Deck, I am just stating that before you sling mud at other platforms, do acknowledge their strengths. And if you think Steam contains shovelware, then how does the Switch library look to you?

Every time Nintendo add to Switch online with crappy titles:
"I love her lack of energy. Go girl, give us nothing!"

Nintendo is really scraping the barrel.
Already past the time to bring 64 and Cube games.

It's so weird to me that whenever I read discussions about Nintendo's best console, the SNES is usually the most beloved one. Yet whenever Nintendo adds new SNES games to the NSO people complain about how bad these games are.
I personally am fine with them adding these lesser known/popular games to the service. Mario Picross was a real hidden gem for me lastg year. People should try to be a bit more open-minded.

@SortingHat im not forgetting anything. Who was it that was complaining every time they had to buy a virtual console game every time there was new hardware? Oh right the gamers. Well, here they are opening up the vault and releasing games people might not have played.

There are 276 comments - just wanted to check someone has said this is a bit rubbish?!?

While I welcome the new additions and any additions - surely the next console should be added by now

These Switch online games make me sad, there are the really good 1st party Nintendo ones on there but the rest is mostly garbage that none of us played back in the day. If you are a younger gamer please know this service is not very representative of what we actually played back then and the 16bit era was amazing, if only they would give us the games that showcase that.

Nintendo is like that well meaning grandma who found a few games in the bargain bin at Kohl's and gave them to you for your birthday.

I'm not expecting Chrono Trigger, but at least they should bring Super Mario RPG. But it would be a dream if they add Konami's masterpieces like bomberman, superstar soccer, contra and tmnt

This is getting beyond idiotic and pathetic, but hey.... I quit Nintendo a long long time ago and I don't even care that much anymore. Good old emulators is where it's at. Porting a game would take Nintendo like what, 15 minutes with spare time to go to the nearest IHOP?

Nintendo always relying on good old NES and SNES games to stay relevant and induce Nostalgia. Truth be told, NES games in general have aged like milk, outside notable exceptions like Super Mario Bros. 3, Zelda II, Kid Icarus and most of the Capcom/Konami classics.

Good old Nintendo, never failing to disappoint.

@Vriess i found Psycho Dream to be decent. It was a real drag till I learned that you can run with the shoulder buttons. Spanky's (Quest? Adventure?) Whatever it's called is fun and I've spent a few hours with that one. For me, since I started gaming in 1990 and got 1 or 2 new games a year it's great to see and be able to try these lesser known games. I, like most 90's kids asked for Mario games and Sonic games, not Tennis(surprisingly fun) or Nightshade(not too fun but very funny).

@MajinSoul well said

@MajinSoul Because Nintendo has been piggybacking the NES and SNES for far too long. And while yes, the SNES is an amazing console that will never be surpassed, they are putting out games that are kinda decent at best. You want real hidden gems? Natsume on the SNES.

Pocky and Rocky 1 and 2, Wild Guns and Ninja Warriors far outclass any "gem" Nintendo has been uploading recently. I mean, I am all in for hidden gems and indie games, but these are meh in comparison to true gems.

@Bryon15 the problem is that Nintendo needs to secure the rights for licenses to add those games

@BloodNinja Not for at least a decade.

@Ambassador_Kong LOL I know, right? Maybe in 10 years we will see a Gameboy release or two on NSO, right? Heh.

Absolutely appalling. No nintendo...you can NOT take my money!!

@Blakeava1821
Guess you're easy to please then. Good for you. Most of us expect a little bit more.

@River3636 Now that’s funny. Internet of the day award for you.

When Super Mario RPG arrives note me.

Conkers Pocket Tales when exactly? If you look around the room Paulie we are all waiting. Wake up?!?!

They should just add N64 and GC games FFS…… 😒

@BloodNinja funny you accuse me of over generalizations I. Our other discussions but yet you say they are not even trying? So why are they not trying? Have you played Claymates, are you not wanting to try some new games? It’s a bonus service attached to our online service, I don’t why it makes people so mad. Or are you wanting the overrated Earthbound? ,

@Themagusx1 Are you part of the entertainment or something? LOL

@BloodNinja Are your scared to answer my questions? LOL

@Themagusx1 Not at all, but what the heck are you even talking about? I thought we were talking about a review for a game, now you’re coming at me about Earthbound for some reason.

@BloodNinja I am referring to your whole “They are not even trying comment”

@Themagusx1 Oh! Well yeah, they aren't even trying with NSO. What else would you like to know? Are you in a more rational place to speak, yet?

@BloodNinja @bloos I was always rational lol. sure tell me.

@BloodNinja what’s wrong with lesser known games being on the service?

@Themagusx1 There's absolutely nothing wrong with having lesser known games on their service. But, considering game size and how big each library is for each system, they should have 300 - 400 games per system at this point. Adding Gameboy, GBA, Nintendo DS, N64, etc. would make A LOT of people jump on this service! It would even be

NINJA APPROVED

@BloodNinja ok I see your point but a lot of those games belong to other companies. And people wishing for Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy on the service, that ain’t gonna happen. We both know that if those games show up they will be individual releases not even part of a compilation. Games like turtle in time that’s probably a logistic nightmare, and aside from Nintendo Games, it’s hard to get those from third parties I am sure. Your statement is valid with Nintendo games, but other games nit so much. Also Claymates is a pretty solid game.

@Themagusx1 I fully understand your point, that licensing becomes an issue for certain titles. Everybody wants a piece of the pie, so to speak. Also lmfao with the Claymates reference in almost every post, is that a meme I'm missing?

@BloodNinja No it’s actually a good game lol. I say we make peace than? Anyway, my only thing as I have said is that I don’t get why people want Earthbound, it’s a good game but IMO no the masterpiece everyone says it’s. great story but Archaic Mechanics,

@Themagusx1 Of course! Peace! My preference!

I do enjoy Earthbound's story, but I agree that mechanic-wise it's quite dated. Honestly, I enjoy it more on emulators so I can speed through the tedious portions, if I ever do replay it, which is quite rare. It kinda feels like once you got the story, replaying it is pretty much moot, as it relies a lot on surprise elements and such.

I'll check out Claymates, I can't believe I missed it back in the day!

Very cool icon, by the way, which character is it? He reminds me of something from the Valis series on PC Engine.

@BloodNinja oh yeah for sure and even for 1995 the game was dated by the time it was released. And I agree I never gone back to it.

Oh for my character it’s Ghaleon from Lunar Silver Star Story complete. Have you played Lunar? And yes it reminds me of the villain from Valism4 in particular, is thst the one your thinking of?

@Themagusx1 That's awesome! Yes, and I played Lunar a looooooooooooooooooooong time ago! LOL

Wow, 308 comments and counting. This one really fired everyone up.

@Liam_Doolan For what it's worth, they just released an SP version of SMB3 on the NES app too. You start off in World 8 with a bunch of power-ups.

Don’t prematurely knock a game you haven’t tried, regardless of its obscurity. I recently got into Donkey Kong 3 on NSO, and it’s one of my favorite NES games currently.

I can remember claymates when it first released and playing it round a mates house and we genuinely thought it was bad joke. Such a dreadful game. Can’t believe they bothers to put this on NSO! But I might just give it a quick go to make sure it wasn’t me at the time and that I didn’t miss a great game!

@jarvismp UPDATE! I didn’t! What a horrific game.

where is earthbound?

You want game preservation, Nintendo is giving it to you.
Enjoy!

">300 comments" grabs popcorn

“Out now!”

Out of my way, they’re all mine! 😂

Its neat to see that the library is expanding towards lesser known titles.

Its lame to see that the library is expanding towards shovel ware titles.

I want Streets of Rage 1,2,3. And before you tell me they are licensed properties, that's fine. I want to buy them in a little collection, so I can keep them. I also want Splatterhouse 1,2,3 collection too.

Y'know, like everyone else here (except for a few) I haven't heard of these titles, but at the same time I thought they actually looked cool, and I've been looking forward to playing them. Sure, they aren't Earthbound (which I haven't played yet but not sure I will ever play), but hey, it's something for me.

P.S: watch out fellas, microtransactions in Jelly Boy thanks to EA!/s

"Bombuzal – Strategically detonate every bomb in each level while leaving yourself a safe place to stand when the dust settles. In this puzzle game, you’ll have to be quick, because time is short. Just make sure you remember to take the size of each explosion into account, or it could blow a hole in all your careful planning. Good luck, and have a blast!"

(remembers having had known this game as Kablooey and having had played it several times (with enjoyment))

@Moistnado You can buy them in a collection and on switch, it’s called Segs Genesis classics and it has a ton of great games on it. Including SR 1-4.

@BloodNinja Which Valis? I have a fond spot for Valis 3. Also have you ever seen that bad ass ad from Japan for the original Valis done by the creator of Neon genesis Evangelion.

@Themagusx1 I've been tempted to get that a few times. Thanks for pointing this out, I'll get it in the next sale.

@Wavey84 Agreed 100 percent. The service even introduced to me to games I was not familiar with, like Magical Drop 2, a game that my fiancé amd I love playing together.

@Moistnado No problem and you get a lot of other great games. My only issue is why does Segway keep porting that horrendous genesis port of Virtua Fighter 2.

@Themagusx1 I enjoyed the first Vaslis the most! They all have outstanding music, too.

And Claymates actually made me smile a lot when I tried it yesterday! I have to admit, I thought you were meme'ing me, but all the little details like the facial expressions the animals make and the animations really add a lot to the game. The levels are HUGE! What an interesting game.

@BloodNinja Oh yeah it’s a fun game. I think that’s what I like about this service is that they show us games we ha e not played. Like I said in previous post my fiancé and I got hooked magical drop 3, and she and I love playing it. I think that’s how I look at the service.

As for Valis we need another game or revboot. There are four games(we never talk about thst pornographic crap of Valis thst was released).

@Themagusx1 The first 3 Valis games are being ported to the Switch as a collection!

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/06/16-bit_cult_classic_valis_is_getting_rebooted_on_nintendo_switch

I always look forward to these additions, especially if I haven’t played or even heard of them. I just wish they were more regular, and included more NES games. I don’t care for the special editions at all. I’d much rather have some obscure NES title over save state SMB3.

@Wavey84 DKC3 is already on NSO. I just beat it there.

They picked the wrong Jelly Boy. Too bad the game included isn't "Jerry Boy". More interested in the other two. I remember Claymates being a pretty good platformer and Bombuzal looks pretty fun.

They're good at exposing obscure games for $20 a year. For 1-3 games every 8-26 months. lol

@Wavey84 I personally love DKC3 more than 2, but I know that’s an unpopular opinion. All the DKCs are excellent, but 3 is fantastic. One of my favorite games.

I don’t understand the third stage of Bombuzal. The large bombs destroy everything.

I spent a good half hour with Bombuzal yesterday - it's not a bad little game I remember from Amiga days.

If you're having trouble with it @Bass_XO you could do worse than going here http://amr.abime.net/issue_4_supplements and clicking on the first page - it's an old Amiga Power guide to the whole game (you might need to use zoom a bit, and the codes are different!)

@klingki You clearly only enjoy good games.

@topher6490 Right! Like..why so many obscure games no one cares about instead of the titles that made the system. Id play the ***** out of some Clay Fighter though. But these ive never heard of

Got fed up with this. Downloaded 1200+ snes titles, and installed snes9x on my nvidia shield pro tv. Works like a gem even 4k

Job done.

I love that they add so many new games that we never got on Wii, Wii U, and 3DS Virtual Console. I thought they exhausted their catalog, but no, Switch has plenty of new old SNES and NES games. Even if the games are not S-Tier or A-Tier, they're nice extras for the service since they have never been re-released. The last updates were all like that and I much prefer this method instead of getting old games we already had the chance to buy in the last 15 years. The idea to re-release games that were/are easily accessible on Wii, Wii U, and 3DS for the fourth time is very boring to me right now, and I feel the change was needed. Virtual Console needed some room to breath so that it can be exciting again next gen or the gen after that.

@Bass_X0 I also thought I was doing something wrong, but the big bomb on the bottom part has enough reach to destroy the one on the upper part. It's a very easy level.

@HotGoomba "Come on Nintendo, just add GameCube and N64 game services at a higher yearly price!"

Those games can get "remastered" editions that sell for $20 or more. The "included with subscription" games will be NES/SNES bottom feeders.

@HotGoomba "Come on Nintendo, just add GameCube and N64 game services at a higher yearly price!"

@Muddy_4_Ever "Those games can get 'remastered' editions that sell for $20 or more. The "included with subscription" games will be NES/SNES bottom feeders."

I disagree with both of these. Nintendo should just do this:

• Add a new button to the emulators that looks like a shopping icon.
• Give the emulators offline usage, but still lock online multiplayer to the service as intended of course.
• Allow players to add games from developers that do not want to opt into the subscription part.

And any games in your menu that you decided not to buy independently will be grayed out, perhaps even just not on the menu at all to keep it clean. And any new games you add onto the service from developers who preferred their games to be bought individually get added with the "NEW" icon showing up as usual. And the offline usage of the emulator allows you to play your purchased titles regardless of being subscribed, just not with netplay.

@Notshane Why are you replying to comments that are over a month old