Nintendo has announced a new batch of Switch Online icons you can only "get by playing" its digital retro library.
It's already hosted missions like this for Super Mario World and The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past and now it's Donkey Kong's turn. This time, Switch Online members will need to boot up the NES and arcade hit Donkey Kong via the app.
This will give you access to multiple themed icons featuring both Mario and Donkey Kong. You'll have until 1st July 2024 to unlock the nine designs, which are priced at 10 Platinum Points each.
The original Donkey Kong game will also make a return next month in the recently announced Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition. It will join 12 other NES titles and will come with over 150 challenges when it launches on 18th July 2024.
Will you be redeeming any of these Donkey Kong icons? Let us know in the comments.
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Please give us Donkey Kong Country icons next!
Donkey Kong is a good first step, now give us the Donkey Kong Country!
I'll probably try to play for the platinum points.
I will not be getting these, especially since I don't want to play this game. Wish they did another game instead. And I almost feel like we already got these before
I played for the required 12 seconds and then got all the icons. 😃
@InnerSound Sometimes they do have real missions such as actually surviving to the end of a F-Zero 99 game, but it seems pretty rare. Too bad Nintendo World Championship NES isn't part of NSO; that could have had some neat missions.
@YunoboCo We got different icons in the same donkey kong set previously.
They got me excited with the arcade artwork only for me to learn that it's just sprites...
At least I still have my Lucas
I'd really love to know why they leave these ones up for so long. There are barely any of them in each set, you can grab them immediately, and having access to the icons definitionally also gives you access to the games since they haven't done any N64 or GBA ones as part of this yet. At most these should be refreshing every two weeks but for some reason they take a whole month.
Interesting choice of promo here…. I wonder if this could possibly foreshadow something DK related in the June Direct??
Either way, I dumped DK on his noggin and collected all the retro NES icons.
Honestly, though, I never did play much DK on the NES as a kid, since we had the great Colecovision port of the game at home for years beforehand. And now I just play the Arcade Archives port when the mood strikes.
Without this site I would never remember these exist. I wish the home page would have an espn like bottom line with items from the news feed. Also reminds me switch has a news app...I know it sounds lazy but I never click on the nso app.
One small step for switch profile icons, one very slightly larger step for a new DK game
You got my hopes up with that thumbnail; I thought the icons would use the artwork from the cabinet smh
Not exactly the Donkey Kong series I was hoping would get NSO icons personally but I'm always a sucker for these types of game-specific icon parts so eh XD
@KayFiOS I was hoping for the exact same thing. These icons are very mid...
Nice, will get them for sure!
a couple of these r in mario kart tour as badges that Im still trying to get lol
only the first 4 are new
When will Nintendo add Legends Arceus icons?? They'll end up making Legends Z-A icons and Legends Arceus will go forever without them 🥺
@Tayrailbridge because that's Jumpman, not Mario
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