Nintendo Switch Online is getting three more classic NES games

[Shawn Knight]

What just happened? Nintendo’s library of classic NES games playable online via the Switch is expanding next week with the addition of three new titles, adding even more value to the company's online service.

Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels first appeared in Japan on June 3, 1986, as Super Mario Bros. 2. This sequel to Super Mario Bros. was much more difficult than the original – so much so, in fact, that Nintendo of America decided to take a different route with its Super Mario Bros. 2 release for North American gamers.

The Super Mario Bros. 2 you’re probably used to is actually a remake of a Japanese game called Doki Doki Panic (that explains why it looks so different from other games in the series).

North American gamers wouldn’t get a chance to play the Japanese version of Super Mario Bros. 2 until it appeared as Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels in the 1993 compilation Super Mario All-Stars for the SNES.

Punch-Out!! Featuring Mr. Dream is another game you’re likely familiar with, albeit in a different iteration. The original North American release was Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!! but once Nintendo’s license to use Tyson expired, he was replaced with Mr. Dream as the final boss.

Star Soldier, developed by Hudson Soft, launched in 1986 as a spiritual successor to Tecmo’s Star Force. In this shoot ‘em up, players pilot a starship called Caesar that travels through space, fighting supercomputers called Starbrains.

Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels, Punch-Out!! Featuring Mr. Dream and Star Soldier will join Nintendo’s growing collection of NES favorites on April 10.

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[Squid Surprise]

"Punch-Out!! Featuring Mr. Dream is another game you’re likely familiar with, albeit in a different iteration. The original North American release was Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!! but once Nintendo’s license to use Tyson expired, he was replaced with Mr. Dream as the final boss."

I'm not so sure it was just the license expiring... I suspect it had far more to do with the prison sentence Tyson served and Nintendo deciding to distance itself from his tarnished image.

I still have it for my original NES and Tyson is way cooler than Mr. Dream

 

[QuantumPhysics]

I personally can't buy any Nintendo handhelds because I don't feel like being ripped off and being forced to buy multiple times.

Apple, for example, allows you to buy an app ONCE and then keep redownloading it under your apple account. I've been using the same $5 iMovie app across several phones and iPads.

If Nintendo wants my business, I'd have to be able to buy a Switch and then download games to it I've already purchased for my Wii.

There aren't very many NES games I want, but there are many Turbographyx16, Genesis, SNES and Game Boy/ Game Gear games I would.

 

[fluffydestroyer]

I personally can't buy any Nintendo handhelds because I don't feel like being ripped off and being forced to buy multiple times.

Apple, for example, allows you to buy an app ONCE and then keep redownloading it under your apple account. I've been using the same $5 iMovie app across several phones and iPads.

If Nintendo wants my business, I'd have to be able to buy a Switch and then download games to it I've already purchased for my Wii.

There aren't very many NES games I want, but there are many Turbographyx16, Genesis, SNES and Game Boy/ Game Gear games I would.

You don't like being ripped off ? Why are you buying Apple products then ? the lack of user support when the hardware fails, the higher price of their products...just because they can do it (yes they admitted this), their highly questionnable marketing and commercial schemes and I could go on and on as how Apple is ripping their customers off. I mean you buy 1 apple product and you could buy a minimum of 2 phones from another computer. Your comment makes no sense.

 

[treetops]

I bought punchout a few years ago with wii u, I had to use my 144hz monitor\ pc emulator to play it, the old crt's had way more fps and these old games aren't designed to run on a 60 fps flat screen that is if the wii u even goes passed 30 fps.

 

[Squid Surprise]

You don't like being ripped off ? Why are you buying Apple products then ? the lack of user support when the hardware fails, the higher price of their products...just because they can do it (yes they admitted this), their highly questionnable marketing and commercial schemes and I could go on and on as how Apple is ripping their customers off. I mean you buy 1 apple product and you could buy a minimum of 2 phones from another computer. Your comment makes no sense.

So Samsung (which is Apple's main phone competitor) doesn't rip people off? Pretty sure their handhelds are just about the same price...