Japan also got Tomato Adventure.

Sure hope they don’t surprise us with a new Warioland game for 2027.

A fun one for sure! I don't know the other two or the Japan tomato game.

Edit: is the 2nd header text supposed to say Game Boy Advance? It says Game Boy twice

I wonder why Dr. Mario & Puzzle League. Not that I'm complaining, but I hope this means Tetris & Dr. Mario on the SNES and Nintendo Puzzle Collection on the Gamecube have a chance to be added to NSO.

EDIT
Worth mentioning: The NSO apps for the NES, SNES and their Japanese counterparts also received an update. No games for any of them, but it bumped the NES and Famicom apps from version 8.1.0 to 9.0.0 and the SNES and Super Famicom ones fron 5.1.0 to 6 0.0.

Wario Land is such a fun little game. The best Wario Land game. In second place I have Wario Land 4.

I wish Nintendo would make a new Wario Land game for Switch 2 that leaned toward 1 and 4.

Wow, awesome!! I think I've heard the Tomato game is good too? But yeah, thanks for the cool stuff, Nintendo!

Now only Wario Land II is left.

Also WarioWare Twisted and Mega Party Games for that series.

Dr. Mario & Puzzle League isn't the most exciting addition, but I'm still happy to see it. I played a lot of that version of Dr. Mario back in the day, so it will be fun to revisit it, despite Dr. Mario 64 already being available.

I played the Fortified Zone game on the 3DS. I wanted more GameBoy games on the 3DS so I took a chance with that one. I actually liked it, so I think I’ll revisit that game.

Wow, what a coincidence. The other day I found an old notebook in a box from when I was 10. It had some Wario Land levels I drew in it.

Never getting gamecube games again

Can’t wait to play Wario Land!

I can now play Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3 on my Switch 2.

NSO is finally worth it.

Really wish they'd put up Pokemon Puzzle Challenge at some point but hey, close enough for now, in general Panel de Pon's just one of those things I really dig playing different versions of provided they aren't the completely soulless DS one.

THIS IS A VERY GOOD UPDATE.
This is maybe the best update in a long time even.

Finally, Wario Land is available on the Switch's Game Boy App. This is a great update!

I hate to complain but it’s been several months since we have gotten a GameCube game. I hope the next GameCube game will be released next month. Been waiting for quite a while to play Pokemon Colosseum since the announcement over a year ago.

I can 100% recommend Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3 to anyone who enjoys retro platformers. The rest I've at least heard of except for Fortified Zone.

Now if only they'd add Wario Land II to the service. Seems weird they added Wario Land 3 first. The second is my fave, though this game and 4 come close too.

First off, this website lacks a dedicated page for Dr. Mario & Puzzle League. Y'all might wanna check that out.

Second, WL1 should've been there from day one on the GB app instead of WL3. It's a way better game, imo.

@Don Feels weird that they specifically mentioned Star Fox Adventures during the Star Fox Direct. Surely that game's coming sometime this year, yeah?

...Maybe at the pace they're adding GCN games, it'd be more likely to be sometime this century...

It's about time we got Wario Land. That's the game I wanted to beat ever since used to have it on the original Game Boy. I got stuck on the 2nd level because I didn't know how to clear it (I lost the game's manual where it tells you that you're supposed to collect 10 coins and the throw the 10 coin into the doors slot). Now I can finally play it again.

Tomato Adventure looks rad as hell

Trickle Feed

Finally! Wario Land on NSO

Sword of Hope II is better than the first one, but I still wouldn't recommend it.

Tomato Adventure, though, is pretty fun, though maybe not recommended if you aren't okay with mashing the A button really fast, some of those Gimmick attacks are rough.

I just bought Warioware Twisted in Japan for my analog pocket and for a second when I saw "Wario" in the list I went: Of course they'd add that right after I buy it.

Neat to get Doctor Mario. I did wanna buy that cart too, but I already had the NES versions on GBA and it felt like a bit of a hat on a hat.

Yeah, Wario Land is a total banger. I remember borrowing it from a friend back in the gap and being hopelessly addicted to it until I beat it. I burned through quite a few batteries with that one! I also remember having that Game Boy attachment that had a giant magnifying glass with a built-in light playing that game.

Didn’t realize Kemco is that old. Will start Tomato Adventure.

1. Fortified Zone looks like if the top down Contra levels wanted to look like Startropics.

2. LOCALIZE YOUR OLD GAMES, NINTENDO. YOU COWARDS > : (

@Don It has been quite the slow trickle for something that’s supposed to be one of the draws of the Switch 2. I guess GameCube games just take a lot more time to polish up (though I don’t know much about the process Nintendo uses for porting Nintendo Classics titles)

@KayFiOS
I hope we get Star Fox Adventures on NSO. I never finished the original release and will definitely give it another shot on the Switch 2 if it gets re-released. I hope Metroid Prime 2 gets released as well.

My copy of Wario Land no longer works so I’ll be glad to finally give this a go

I only ever owned a handful of games for my Game Boy back in the day, and Fortified Zone was one of them! Pleased to have it back on the service (also had it on 3DS)

@TrueBlueYoshi Here’s a fun tip: those 10-coins you can generate aren’t only for unlocking checkpoints and end gates. You can also just chuck them at enemies. They can even defeat some enemies that are otherwise immune to Wario’s basic attacks!

@Ganner Oh man, same. That light and magnifier were a necessity on family road trips.

Wario Land! How I still long for a new title in that series.😭

Sadly the Genesis app hasn't been updated for over a year, so no manual control rebinding.

Wonder when they put diddy Kong racing and conkers bad fur day we need diddy Kong racing and such gameboy advance had a serious collection of hidden gems that app is going to be more and more popular as time passes. N64 they put out most of the very best games already there’s still a good 50 plus games that could be added but n64 apps are top tier lots of snes games missing same with gameboy i remember playing a box sorting puzzle game on gameboy i loved growing up dont know what it was called but where is rad racer and wizards and warriors. Where’s Batman and Friday the 13th for nes why aren’t more companies dropping their nes games and snes games. Why would ea not put beetle adventure racing on that . So many games lost there licensing Nintendo should buy any game that lost there licenses put the whole library’s on there

Wow nobody likes warioland 3. Sad panda. That’s the one I had for my gbc and I love that game. But I guess I don’t know any better since it’s the only one I played. Since virtual boy came back tho I dabbled with that one. I’ll try and play the others in due time

Wario Land 1 is fine, out of all Wario Land games it's by far the weakest in my opinion but it's not bad, I just have zero desire to play it again
Wario Land 2 is my second favorite in the series so I'm annoyed that it's still not available on NSO
I never heard of the other two games, maybe I'll try them out at some point
Dr. Mario & Puzzle League is cool but we already have really good versions of these on NSO so it's not super exciting

@Olderion @KayFiOS @ParrakerriRush @Don @Alcea @Judal27

Super Mario Sunshine in August??? 🤞

It's been so long since they dropped anything Gamecube related on NSO. Would've made perfect sense to drop Star Fox Assault on NSO since the remake is out now.

@SausageLink “ Nintendo should buy any game that lost there licenses put the whole library’s on there”

Nintendo doesn’t want to pay DC, Volkswagen etc for licenses to games they don’t own themselves when they have a lot of games of their own to add.

@Ganner I believe that was the Light Boy accessory?

Huh, I missed when they dropped Wario Land. Good on them. Good to see WL3 too, but I'm personally waiting on WL2 which is still locked to my 3DS darn it.

Edit: WL was just released on NSO. Need to read slower.

Just need Wario Land II now so I can finally start Wario Land. I bought Wario Land for my Gameboy Pocket but can't see a thing 😂

@Joker1234 And if we aren’t get Twilight Princess HD, then they might as well give us the GameCube version.

Yay! Wario Land is a classic! Loved that one. Fond memories of playing it, hunched over a gameboy at my Grandmother's at 6am, barely able to see the screen at all. I had to use that magnifying accessory when I played GB because my mum thought it was better for my eyes. I’m not sure it actually made the screen any clearer or bigger though! Nice to be able to play with better viewing/filter options on NSO!

Very excited to play Wario Land for the first time! I never had a Game Boy as a kid, only Game and Watch’s then Game Boy Advance, I think I was too into my SNES in the early 90s to bother

And I do like how they continue to dig up random obscure games to include the bigger titles on the older consoles. Jaleco and Data East are the glue that hold NSO together.

It sure feels like a hot minute since the last NSO update. I don't remember when the last ones dropped.
In any case, good to see more now!

FINALLY for Dr Mario and Puzzle League. I can now spread my playtime of both over yet another version to hide my not so secret addiction to them.

I can safely say I never heard of Sword of Hope II and Fortified Zone. I might check them out at some point. Wario Land is a gem and top 3 material for Game Boy for me. Dr. Mario is always a nice addition, no matter what platform!

Great to finally see the first ever warioland game on Nintendo classics. Also I actually have that Dr Mario + puzzle league for the gba! Really great game, I highly recommend it.

WARIOLAND, FINALLY!!!

Dr.Mario + Puzzle League!? 😭

The GBA app must be the most forgotten, so many cool games and yet almost nothing for months.

Jon Cartwright is going to freak out a little today! 😂🤎

Warioland 1 is absolutely my favourite platformer on the Gameboy! The many brilliant secret exits, interesting world, style, music and the cool power ups make for an amazing and challenging game that never overstays it's welcome!

FINALLY!!!! I have been waiting so long for Nintendo to add Super Mario Land 3: Wario Land because it was one of the games I played and enjoyed the most on Gameboy and I was starting to think we wouldn't get it 'cause so many other lesser known games were getting released instead despite it being a Nintendo owned game but I am glad that wasn't the case.

I hope we get Wario Land 2 next.

@GoldenSunRM Yhea, I think it's a bit of an insult at this point really how few updates we get in general. But at least there's still great stuff every time something drops!

Just a shame we went through a whole heatwave and still don't have Mario sunshine for instance! 😂 What's some GBA games you are still missing? For me it's a lot of third parties but they may not have the licensing!

@garfreek i really wish we would get some of those Nintendo games that everyone tends to forget.

Mario Party GBA (it had a story Mode with a lot of dialogue and Puzzle Solving), Donkey Kong Jungle Climber, Yoshi Universal Gravitation or Mario Pinball Land are good examples.
While they're not amazing games but only good, they're still odd experiment that are worth playing for their unique Gameplay and I wish more people would try them out.

I have loads of classic games on my WII U via Virtual Console that I actually own and prefer to play So much better than Online. Just wish I had Super Soccer on my WII U as they delisted it last year, another reason to own rather than rent! Streaming games is not the answer, at least not for me

@Nintendontyouknow

I am the opposite and much prefer NSO as it encourages me to play more obscure and little known games, especially combined with the drip feed release style as I try out whatever comes along.

On Virtual Console because you had to pay money for each game individually I mostly only brought ones I had nostalgia for

@Suketoudara You missed out on great games. They are probably going to look very primitive to young fans now because of the old graphics but Gameboy had a lot of fun games out in the 90s and my Sister and I loved the Pokemon, Mario Land, Wario Land, Kirby's Dream Land, Donkey Kong Land and Tiny Toon Adventures games along with Balloon Kid, Metroid 2: Return of Samus, Dr. Mario, Yoshi's Cookie, Tetris and Bubble Bobble Part 2.

On NintendoLife's "50 Best Game Boy Games of All Time" list, NL users (that's you and me!) rated 1 of these games:

• Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3 the #6 best Game Boy game

@JohnnyMind I liked how in the first game the water would rise on the map as you made it further in the game and you could go back and play the levels with water in them and reach places you couldn't get to before.

+1 to wanting a new Wario game of some kind. That character is underrated IMO.

I also like Wario Land 3. Kind of a weird little Metroidvania in a way.

There is a Fan translation of Tomato Adventure

@Nintendontyouknow Completely agree. I prefer to play my Virtual Console games over NSO but then I still have my old consoles hooked up. Kids these days would rather stream than own. I agree with that in terms of films and tv but not games.

@Suketoudara Same. So many I would have never dared venture into. I would just see them and say 'that's nice' but never buy it. I would only have bought a very select few that I knew I loved from the past. Much prefer this model. Get so many more hours of gameplay and things to try.

Yay for Wario Land: SML3! Even the old cheat code works in it! Excited to replay this old classic!

Weird, I could have sworn the first WarioLand was on there already - must be as I have it on my 3DS.

Just need the second one now, this was my GOAT back in the day and highly replayed.

@Lofoten Preach, that is my dresđ, but it seems Nintendo has no interest to revisit Wario Land, and considering declining sales with each new Wario Land, I can't blame them.

I dunno what planet they’re on sometimes. This would have been an absolutely perfect opportunity to put up the original GBA Rhythm Tengoku - translated or not; it isn’t like the mini games are hard to learn in retrospect.

Sword of Hope II rules. Don't sleep on it. It's like a mashup of old Kemco point-and-click games (Shadowgate, Deja Vu) and a trad JRPG.

Glad to see that the first Wario Land is now present, surprised it's taken so long but maybe there's hope that they bring back the franchise in general with a new game or Shake Dimension remaster.

@Don I figure Colosseum will be early August as that's the time of the year there were 3 other Pokemon NSO games (TCG, Mystery Dungeon and Stadium 2).

A bit of a weak lineup this month, isn't it? No worries, I'm pretty occupied with MP4 anyways

Finally, Wario Land! This was one of my all-time Game Boy favorites growing up.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but this means Wario Land 2 is the only Game Boy-era Wario game still not on NSO.

With all the games they could publish, they keep with these unlocalised ones. Totally useless for most people

Finally, the original and best Wario Land game ever is here. This version of Wario Land is better cause it didn't change the mechanics of the original two Super Mario Land games. While the main character change, having the role to play as a villain for the first time is fantastic and there are still deaths and pits that can still kill you like the previousd two SML games unlike the successors (WL2-4) where the game hardly ever kill Wario anymore.

@Grumblevolcano
I wonder if there will be a Pokemon Presents in August. I’m also hoping for Gen 3 games to be re-released soon.

@Don Unless Winds/Waves is releasing in early 2027, I don't see there being a Pokemon Presents until Pokemon Day 2027. I think the situation will be like 2024 where they dropped Mystery Dungeon on NSO in early August and then made a bunch of TCG + mobile announcements at Worlds.

@Bass_X0 you’d be suprised a lot of companies have no care for old games remember wave race 64 on the Wii virtual console lost all its official licenses and sponsors were removed from in the game it was still put out . The n64 app those licenses came back and were put back in or version was changed . It’s free advertising for Volkswagen and it one of the best n64 games that’s been highly requested. Problem with beetle adventure racing is the devs who made it got jerked by ea so they’ve most likely not release it ea had them create some of the finest racing games in the early 2000s and then striped them of their games put them on other games and series gave need for speed to a different studio so it’s just a dev issue i think

@Grim Warioland 3 is my favorite.

It has taken fully three years since the Game Boy service launched for Wario Land 1 to finally be added. Honestly, this game should have been included right from the start. Instead, back then, they released Wario Land 3, the worst entry in the series. I simply cannot understand the people who count that garbage Wario Land 3 among their favorites. Since no one else is talking about Fortified Zone, I’ll mention that it was actually a pretty decent game. It was an action game with an atmosphere reminiscent of the classic Metal Gear series. While the sequel, Fortified Zone 2, was more polished and fun, the first game wasn't bad either.

@Grim If you have only played Wario Land 3, it is essentially the same as never having properly experienced the Wario Land series. Having played the earlier titles first, I was disappointed that Wario Land 3 stripped away all the abilities from previous games and turned Wario into a sluggish character. The Wario Land series is characterized by exhilarating action, but Wario Land 3, which eliminated that feature, was truly the most terrible game in the series. Fortunately, Wario Land 4 for the Game Boy Advance returned to the original style, making it a game well worth playing. I hope you take this opportunity to play all the other titles in the Wario Land series as well.

I was so disappointed when 8 year old me received Wario Land as a gift. What a ungrateful little sod I was. Little did I know it would become my favourite Gameboy game ever. Objectively, it is easily in top three Gameboy games and everyone should play it.

@HammerGalladeBro Nintendo Puzzle Collection won't appear because of Yoshi's Cookie. Nintendo doesn't own that IP, they have to license it from the IP owner every time they want to release it (that IP owner is actually credited on the packaging to that very collection).

@Ryu_Niiyama Kemco (or Kotobuki System) was porting western computer games to Famicom in the early days. One of the earliest was something called "Dough Boy" in 1985 (which is actually about an army guy running around a top-down (single-screen?) field. Spy vs. Spy was probably a better remembered game they ported in that era.
But their biggest thing was a "single screen"-ish platform franchise called Crazy Castle which notoriously had a whole lot of license shuffling between regions and sequels in its run from the NES through the GBA.

@EarthboundBenjy I know that for some reason only the second Sword of Hope game was released on 3DS.
Have they released the first one on NSO?

I'm glad I got a real cart of that second game when it was so cheap because nobody had heard of it.
But it's still odd that Kemco decided to localize it FOUR YEARS after the Japanese release. In the Game Boy timeline, that was an eternity.
But while Japan got a lot of RPGs on the Game Boy (I've been collecting as many as I can), very few of them got officially localized.
One of those I've played a bit through in Japanese was Monster Maker 1. It is a neat game but very RNG heavy. If it was less so I might have felt more inclined to finish it. I only learned in later years it was once planned for a US release but got cut. (Someone found an old Nintendo marketing team binder with a bunch of press material and that was mentioned in it.)

@KingMike
Yes, both Sword of Hope games are now on NSO.
The first game is rather annoying because the damage rolls have such huge variance. An enemy attack can randomly do 7 damage or 50 damage, just from pure luck of the roll.
I feel like the combat boils down to luck quite often, especially in the final area. with NSO, the ability to rewind makes the game more enjoyable.

The second Sword of Hope, which was just added to NSO, does not have this problem, but it is still a rather slow-paced adventure that I wouldn't say holds up well when there are lots of other great retro style RPGs to play nowadays.

Yeah, the Game Boy did have its fair share of RPGs, though I am not so well versed in them. I did get the Collection of SaGa: Final Fantasy Legend from the eShop - I played and beat the first one, but did not return for the second or third ones yet.

Interesting fun fact about Game Boy RPGs - so, Tomato Adventure just got released on the Japanese NSO, right? Well, one of the things learned via the Nintendo "gigaleak" that occurred a few years ago, there exists an unreleased rom for "Gimmick Land", which is a Game Boy Color version of Tomato Adventure. It turns out that Tomato Adventure was originally a GBC game, before Nintendo decided to scrap it and told Alpha Dream to remake it for GBA instead. The unreleased ROM is pretty much fully complete too.

Give us Mario Golf Advance Tour for the GBA you tight *****! I can't believe we're still being served up garbage, month in, month out. Yes WarioLand is alright but the rest? Pure shovelware. What about all the GameCube games? Nintendo troll us so hard.

@MatoFilipovic
"Preach, that is my dresđ, but it seems Nintendo has no interest to revisit Wario Land, and considering declining sales with each new Wario Land, I can't blame them."

There are rumors of a new Wario game coming in 2027, possibly a new Wario Land.

https://nintendoeverything.com/rumor-nintendo-has-a-new-wario-game-on-the-way

https://retrododo.com/rumours-suggest-a-new-wario-game-is-just-around-the-corner/

https://www.gamereactor.eu/does-the-star-fox-announcement-confirm-zelda-ocarina-of-time-remake-for-switch-2-and-metroid-1715353/

@GoldenSunRM Oh those were always on my list to try, hope we'll get those soon! 🤎

@KingMike Fair enough.

I've read a little bit into the matter and here's what I understand and my conclusion on who owns the Original Game Design in a timeline-esque form.

-Home Data indeed came up with the game design of Hermetika. Apparently Hermetika was an arcade game that didn't fare well during location tests.

-Bullet-Proof Software (BPS, later Blue-Planet Software) bought the rights to Hermetika and in turn presented the game design to Nintendo.
This could've been before or after Yoshi's Cookie release, that part is not very clear to me since Home Data is still credited on Yoshi's Cookie. Apparently at some point, BPS made a concept of the original Hermetika called Inaro, which is mentioned on the copyright of the Wii Virtual Console version of Yoshi's Cookie. Inaro may or may not have been released for Japanese cellphones during the 2000s.

-Yoshi's Cookie was made for the NES/Famicom, Game Boy and SNES/Super Famicom. Nintendo published the 8-bit versions, which were developed by TOSE, while BPS developed and published the 16-bit version.

-BPS made a slight revision of Yoshi's Cookie, the very rare Yoshi no Cookie: Kuroppon Oven de Cookie for the Super Famicom to promote the National NE-KC77 oven, still crediting Home Data.

-At some point between Yoshi's Cookie and Nintendo Puzzle Collection, BPS established the shell company called Intellectual Property Consultants Inc., which is listed on the copyright of Nintendo Puzzle Collection and the Wii Virtual Console version of Yoshi's Cookie as the owner of the game design.

-The Tetris Company absorbed BPS.

tl;dr It seems The Tetris Company currently has the rights to Inaro, the BPS version of Hermetika from which Yoshi's Cookie is based on.

Wario Land is top tier, in my humble opinion. Nintendo can stop adding games now. They've done it /s

@JohnnyMind it’s a surprisingly long game for gbc! And I also really liked the backtracking once you unlocked more stuff. It was great at school learning more about the game from friends. It felt so unique compared to Mario. I’ll eventually try out the others, as many are now suggesting I do.

@Antraxx777 it’s so good. Very thankful for my grade school friends recommending that and the two towers for gba. Absolute gems

@gmar I will get to them I swear! And I will also never call 3 a bad game lol. I always thought the transformations were cool, and going back to levels to see new areas or changes in the environment

@EarthboundBenjy Unfortunately, extremely random damage rolls aren't that unusual for 8-bit RPGs. That Monster Maker game I mentioned had that. But I also have completed a game on MSX2 called Crimson that was pretty bad about that (thought the PC88? version, which I didn't know existed, is now on the Switch eShop which I downloaded but haven't checked out).
And the entire Deep Dungeon franchise on FDS/FC. Well, the three Square-published games are pretty bad about that, the third pretty broken with it. With that ROM-hacked out, the game otherwise becomes pretty decent.
I recall the fourth game, published by Asmik, was much friendlier and I don't recall major glitches.

Every update, the more "(name of the one popular game in the update) is good but the rest are shovelware. Gives us more (insert name of popular game and other console)." and I bet those commenters have never played the remaining games.

@naxuu I'll agree with that! A great classic to revisit indeed!