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Forget Animal Crossing: New Horizons, we’re getting new SNES and NES titles through the Nintendo Switch Online service, as announced by their official Twitter account! As well as providing gamers access to online features, the library of cult classic games on offer incentivises those still undecided about signing up. Not long after it hit 15
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Zelda II: The Adventure of Link is widely considered the black sleep of the long running franchise, thanks to the many changes in gameplay. It’s a side-scroller that deviates from the action-adventure formula the first title established and firmly entrenches itself into RPG mechanics and gameplay — essentially the antithesis to any other Zelda title
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From what we currently know, Nintendo has no plans to make a new entry in the boxing series Punch-Out!!. Outside of the appearance of the franchise’s main protagonist Little Mac in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, a new installment for Punch-Out!! hasn’t come about since the 2009 release on the Nintendo Wii. According to legendary boxer Mike Tyson though, Nintendo
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A video game Christmas miracle made its debut yesterday on The Video Game History Foundation blog. The NES version of SimCity has been completely digitized and preserved by The Video Game History Foundation thanks to two copies of internal builds being discovered in 2017. The Video Game History Foundation has published a blog post detailing the
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Continuing the trend of releasing modified versions of classic titles alongside the Nintendo Switch Online subscription’s free games, Nintendo has put out SP versions of Metroid and Dr. Mario. Every month the Nintendo Switch Online service will add three NES titles to its collection of games players can download and play, so long as they
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Nintendo has published a new video showcasing NES games that are a part of Nintendo Switch Online. The video puts an emphasis on the multiplayer features alongside the ability to play the games anywhere, a main selling point of the Switch itself. Nintendo also revealed the new additions to the NES library for November and
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Nintendo has often been called “out of touch” when it comes to their online strategy, but I tend to use the less reductive term “idiosyncratic,” or perhaps even “incoherent.” It isn’t new for the company to be practicing with “Nintendo-like solutions” rather than industry standards but in this day and age, their online infrastructure with
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Around the time Nintendo Switch Online launched last month, Nintendo confirmed that more NES games would be added to the service at monthly intervals. Today, we received the first batch of new titles: NES Open Tournament Golf, Super Dodge Ball, and Solomon’s Key. In addition, Nintendo also surprisingly released an enhanced version of The Legend of
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Three new NES titles will be added to Nintendo Switch Online members on October 10, 2018. They are: NES Open Tournament Golf, Solomon’s Key, and Super Dodge Ball. Each game will have online multiplayer for those that allow for more than one player. NES Open Tournament Golf was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System on
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