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The wait is over, when it comes to new NES and SNES titles, for those that pay for Nintendo Switch Online. Nintendo will be bringing more retro games to its service, after previously adding a collection of Super Nintendo games back in September. These new additions include four SNES games, and two NES, which are listed below.

• Star Fox 2
• Super Punch Out!
• Kirby Super Star
• Breath of Fire II
• Crystalis
• Journey to Silius

Super NES

• Star Fox 2 – This 3D rail-shooter and second installment of the Star Fox series was first designed for Super NES, but went unreleased until it appeared on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System: Super NES Classic Edition system in 2017. This time, Emperor Andross is on a crusade to conquer the Lylat system and the Star Fox team itself. After a long wait, Star Fox is back in action.
• Super Punch-Out!! – Featuring the tight gameplay and humor the series is known for, this sequel to the NES classic sees Little Mac return to the ring with the World Video Boxing Association belt once again at stake.
• Kirby Super Star – That awful King Dedede is at it again – he’s stolen all the food in Dream Land. It’s up to Kirby to get it back and ultimately save Popstar from being taken over. There’s never a dull moment as Kirby dashes, flies and fights!
• Breath of Fire II – Set 500 years after the original, take on the role of Ryu, the last member of the Dragon Clan. A cast of unusual and exciting companions join you in your adventures across a wondrous land full of magic and mystery.

NES

• Crystalis – An epic story for action-RPG fans is ready to unfold. Set in a world where civilization lies in ruins, the young protagonist awakes from cryogenic sleep and the adventure begins. Collect the Sword of Wind and venture into the unknown.
• Journey to Silius – Join Jay on his run-and-gun mission to take down the mechanical army responsible for his father’s death. Defeat endless waves of attack robots and fulfill his father’s dream of developing a space colony in the Silius Solar System.

The most notable addition in this lineup is Star Fox 2, which was previously exclusive to the SNES Classic. All six of these games will be made available for the Nintendo Switch on December 12th.

 

[spotanjo3]

I am glad that I have NES and SNES Classics (hack them for addition more games) as well as emulators for Switch and I am GOOD to go! You know why ? Because it is not worth. In the future there will be no more online for Switch and those will be useless and waste money. Yeah, I am wise and I will pass on this one anyway. NOT WORTH.

 

[the_randomizer]

I'm glad the games we're getting are good for SNES. Sure, one could hack the Switch, but IMO, it's kind of a pain, and the hacks aren't completely permanent *shrug* but to each their own. And also Star Ocean is out too, so, IDK lol.

 

[spotanjo3]

crystalis is pretty good.

Yeah, I completed this game when I was in teenager year. It was fun game.

 

[YukidaruPunch]

Nintendo has already understood how their market for old stuff works and knows people may keep paying regardless in order to use the online service. As is stands, it's a very meager offer, even if those games are actually excellent titles (Kirby Super Star and Super Punch-Out!! are fantastic, and Star Fox 2 is an unique title to have as well).

I don't really defend their practices as I've literally just signed for 3 months of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate for, like, R$1 (that's less than a quarter of a dollar). The value is astoundingly insane. However, I do know that if one wants to play these Nintendo games, there's plenty of other ways already.

So, in short, I guess this changes nothing for me or for Nintendo or for a lot of people involved. lol
I don't like sounding this condescending, but really, there's plenty of ways to play these old games nowadays even if it's a shame they're not on Switch. The Switch has a whole lot else!

 

[Tiger21820]

They need to add Pro Action Replay and Game Genie support!

 

[banjo2]

They need to add Pro Action Replay and Game Genie support!

It has Rewind, that's pretty good

 

[raxadian]

Good thing I didn't buy a snes classic for star fox 2. Also why is Crystalis there? It's like already on the SNK 40 anniversary collection (Even though is not an arcade game)

You won't be saying that the day Nintendo kills the Switch online service.

 

[spotanjo3]

Nintendo will kill the SNES and NES online service in the future just like Wii U online. Why bother.

 

[osaka35]

Too bad Crystalis isn't the updated version, but the original version. I'm assuming, anyway. Still fun, though.

Since I got nintendo online to play online games and whatnot, this is more of a fringe benefit. But it's nice to just have it there and not have to do anything which might get my switch banned.

 

[Deleted User]

It was strange that Super Star wasn't available on NSO at launch, but Dreamland 3 was, I'm glad it's on.

 

[codezer0]

correct me if I'm wrong, buuut... nintendo won't let you buy these a la carte, do they?

 

[mbcrazed]

Well, I'm happy that Kirby Super Star is being released, but I would have been excited to see Chrono Trigger or Earthbound. Oh well, I guess good things come to those who wait!

 

[the_randomizer]

correct me if I'm wrong, buuut... nintendo won't let you buy these a la carte, do they?

I really wished they did, that would be smart, very smart.

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

Meh. Would've rather seen DKC or Super Mario RPG myself, so I'm still not inclined to keep an active NSO subscription that's not given to me for free.

Breath of Fire 2 is good though, so that's nice I guess?

 

[jt_1258]

Good thing I didn't buy a snes classic for star fox 2. Also why is Crystalis there? It's like already on the SNK 40 anniversary collection (Even though is not an arcade game)

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Hay now, I wouldn't complain about the second thing. Kinda nice that there is precedent for a game being in a collection not gate keeping it from showing up in the service. =D

 

[Edward_Kenway]

Starfox 2 is enticing but not worth buying a subscription for. The emulator is meant to have some input lag and other problems which detract from the experience.

If I remember correctly the updated Super FX chip which the game was meant to run on never got released. It was meant to be faster than the one that came with Starfox. The closest we can get to what the game was meant to be on real hardware is a reproduction cartridge using the ROM dump and a Super FX chip with a crystal oscillator overclocking it.

 

[Jonna]

Snip!

In this day and age of mainstream developers not giving a single tiny fraction of care towards game preservation, it's fantastic to see an exclusive game get more means of playability (and not to mention get on another system that could potentially extract it before it becomes unavailable down the road when online systems inevitably close down, looking at you DSi shop and Wii shop).

 

[kumikochan]

In this day and age of mainstream developers not giving a single tiny fraction of care towards game preservation, it's fantastic to see an exclusive game get more means of playability (and not to mention get on another system that could potentially extract it before it becomes unavailable down the road when online systems inevitably close down, looking at you DSi shop and Wii shop).

For that you have people who dumbproms or crack games just like the news that just came out that a Disney game with DRM can't be downloaded anymore even when people bought it (Tron) but the cracked version works perfectly fine. That's a whole other reason to hate Nintendo tho since they care more about pleasing their corporate stock holders than game preservation seeing they're being the ones mostly attacking those crackers and rom dumpers.

 

[Jonna]

For that you have people who dumbproms or crack games just like the news that just came out that a Disney game with DRM can't be downloaded anymore even when people bought it (Tron) but the cracked version works perfectly fine. That's a whole other reason to hate Nintendo tho since they care more about pleasing their corporate stock holders than game preservation seeing they're being the ones mostly attacking those crackers and rom dumpers.

Yes, this is true.

I would also like to point out that it might be seen as selfish to demand a game stay exclusive to any console. The initial reason for it is for a company to try to make more money over another buy enticing customers to play more of their console. In this iteration, it doesn't even make sense, as Nintendo wouldn't be competing against themselves. In the end, exclusivity only hurts the consumer.

I can somewhat understand how you'd feel betrayed because you bought a system specifically because it had a game that was only going to be on there. However, one has to realize that it's the same concept of buying a game on launch versus buying it at a discount down the road, and that we paid the price we did for that and cannot get upset that others pay a lower price (or in this case, they get to play the game on other systems). Same sort of mentality older people are having against younger ones now regarding student loan forgiveness.

 

[DANTENDO]

All this bolox talk which started over exclusives lol -nobody cares what is an exclusive or not just fkin play the games and stop acting so immature