Switch Online NES & Super NES September games announced

Four new games will be added to the SNES and NES emulators on the Nintendo Switch Online service. As of September 23, you'll be able to play:
  • Donkey Kong Country 2 (SNES)
  • Mario's Super Picross (SNES)
  • The Peace Keeper (SNES)
  • S.C.A.T.: Special Cybernetic Attack Team (NES)





How do you like these new games? What other games would you like to see added to the SNES and NES catalogs? Discuss!
 

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Apperently SCAT reminds me of the Angry Video Game Nerd Bad Game Cover Art video of the boxart of the PAL version (Action in New York) and the Japanese version (Final Mission) has Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sigourney Weaver lookalikes.
 
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Nice, Mario's Super Picross is a classic. I just love Picross games in general. A perfect game to have on the go, although the DS and 3DS offerings have spoiled us with the comfort of the stylus ;)
S.C.A.T. looks really cool, I've never seen or heard about it before.
DKC2 is DKC2.
And the beat-em-ups aren't my favourite genre in general. I only like a select few and think the others feel samey :P
Please tell me Scott pilgrim is one of the few
 
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I hate to be "that guy" but these releases are a little meaningless they put pressure on rom sites to get shut down just to give us crumbs per month. They need to do a full release of SNES/NES and work on GBC/GBA/N64/Gamecube online considering from 3D All Stars N64 and Gamecube can be emulated. To combat piracy they need to provide good service and this isn't it. SNES games are over 20 years old and NES games are pushing 30 years old they should have already by now figured out the license agreements and etc and just release it as complete. The only thing SNES or NES online has over the emulators are the nice cover art that's about it. I'm sorry but to praise this is not worth it when PSNES can give you much better experience
 

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What is the goal of Picross i never understanded that game
fill in the squares on the grid based on the numbers on the top and side of it to create a picture, if you love puzzles then it might peak your interest but I can understand why people wouldn't really be super excited about it
they posted a video on how it works...probably cause the game lacks a tutorial though I'm not sure
 
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What is the goal of Picross i never understanded that game
Hard to explain in a few words but it's one of the most addictive puzzle genres I know.
It is somehow comparable to Minesweeper and Sudoku in a way.
Basically you want to find "good blocks" without hitting "bad blocks" (mark them with an x instead) and when you found all good blocks they form a little pixel art picture.

Example:
The grid is a 10 x 10 grid.
Next to the first row you find two numbers: 7 and 2
That means that 7 ongoing (connected) blocks in this row are good blocks and another 2 as well but between such numbers there must be at least one bad block.
Since 7 good blocks plus 1 bad block plus 2 good blocks make 10, you know how you have to mark the first row:

█ █ █ █ █ █ █ X █ █

I guess any tutorial is better than reading about the rules. :D

Can't recommend that old SNES game though. Picross on 3DS or Switch are way better. Nothing beats the pen of the 3DS. ;)

They need to do a full release of SNES/NES and work on GBC/GBA/N64/Gamecube online considering from 3D All Stars N64 and Gamecube can be emulated. To combat piracy they need to provide good service and this isn't it.

No one out there can provide a legal full release of any romset for any system because of publishing rights / licences. This will never happen.
Why would some company like Capcom ever allow another company like Nintendo to throw out all SNES versions of Street Fighter? They are printing money with their thousand rereleases and "classic collections", because they are the only way to enjoy Street Fighter on a Switch from a legit point of view.
It's cool that they offer some NES and SNES games for the Switch (it really is) but it never beats the experience of having the full romset and RetroArch on the sd card of your CFW enabled Switch. ;)
 
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