Nintendo has announced another batch of Switch Online icons you can only unlock by playing its digital retro library.
After events for Super Mario World, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past and even the original Donkey Kong game, it's now moved on to Rare's 1994 SNES hit Donkey Kong Country. Switch Online members will be required to boot up this game via the SNES app.
The icons featured include Donkey Kong, his sidekick Diddy Kong, Cranky Kong, Funky Kong, King K. Rool and even some of the animal buddies. You can see the full range of icons available courtesy of 'NSO Icons Alerts' on social media. These icons will leave on 2nd September 2024 and will set you back 10 points each.
Of course, to access these icons, you will need to have a subscription to the Switch Online service. Apart from Donkey Kong Country, the second and third games in the SNES series are also available on the service.
DKC was originally added to Nintendo's online service in 2020. The original entry in the newer series Donkey Kong Country Returns will also be released on the Switch early next year in HD.
Will you be redeeming any of these Switch Online icons? Let us know in the comments.
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Comments 17
Cool, but where the Fzero icons?
Let’s go! I’ve been wanting these for a long time now! Seriously one of the best games ever made, the whole trilogy on SNES is worth playing.
I bet people are happy to be getting King K. Rool and Funky Kong icons.
I snapped these up right away. I'll have the K. Rool icon for a while once the latest Splatoon 3 Splatfest is over.
Would've liked Enguarde but oh well. Surprising they went with Winky over Squawks for a second animal buddy. No love for Candy, the only Kong missing...
Still can't wrap my head around having 7 icons that you can claim in two seconds stick around for an entire month. Either have a lot of them or cycle them more often.
It doesn't help that the lack of backgrounds on these retro ones kind of makes them look comparatively low-rent.
Those are actually really cool! I may have to boot the game up so I can redeem them as it is one of my favorite SNES games.
No frames or backgrounds, meh
Here I go, King K. Rool icon. I always thought that specific art of him was from Donkey Kong 64, though.
FINALLY I HAVE BEEN WAITING INCREDIBLY PATIENTLY FOR A KING K. ROOL ICON IT’S OUR FINEST HOUR!!!!!
It is crazy that this is the first Diddy icon. Love these though.
Nice! Time to roll deep and grab some of these. K. Rool and Winky must be mine.
King K.Rool!
Hope they do DKC2 in the future.
Love to see some DK Country icons and of course I'll get them all!
I do find these such a chore to earn the coins for.
... I just finished this game yesterday. Welp, time to start it again!
Once you start the game, you'll be able to unlock them straight away. I quit the game at the Rareware logo when I booted it up and I could get them straight away.
I've been set with my Fox McCloud avatar for a while, but I'll pick these up since I'm still sitting on a bunch of Platinum Points
Interesting. I guess these "play to acquire" icons are sort of Nintendo's way of establishing an NSO game club of their own?
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