@DarkAkuma Hehe, told ya there would be a "regular" update this month! I'm surprised you haven't heard about The Peace Keepers since it's kinda well-known back in the day. Maybe you know it by it's Japanese game since it's the third game in the Rushing Beat series (the other two being Rival Turf and Brawl Brothers) and the other two have come out on Virtual Console / SNES Online already. The other two games in the series obviously have Preset IDs but I doubt there's any vacancies near them or you would obviously have checked out The Peace Keepers before, so that's no help...
I actually like that it's coming out here since while it's nowhere near the top of the beat 'em up genre, it's a serviceable game that people probably remember seeing in magazine coverage back then and maybe wanted to try out, and now that it's coming out next to DKC2 they can check it out. That's one of the advantages of a service like this vs the old Virtual Console, where people might not be inclined to spend $8 on a game they are just curious about but might actually get to play for a bit if it comes out with other more appetizing games.
As for the other games, I'm a huge fan of Picross games and it's always great to see Japan only releases make it over; DKC2 speaks for itself and SCAT is a lot of fun (like everything Natsume did back in the NES/SNES days. It's not so much that they are reaching as it is that they have simply reached the end of what they can add themselves without having to deal with other companies. DKC3 and Earthbound iare pretty much the only big non-licensed first party games left and even with those they have to deal with Microsoft and Shigesato Itoi to some extent (not that's going to be much of a problem). They're probably going to add some other console to the service soon-ish (next year?), as we've already speculated, and now that the Mario 3D All-Stars collection revealed the names of the N64 and GC/Wii emulators, it's probable that the other emulator referenced in old versions of the SNES Online app was for the Game Boy, so that might be it. Also, since 3D All-Stars was announced as a temporary release, it's been kinda obvious that the individual games will be available by themselves at some point after March 2021 in some form.
I actually like that it's coming out here since while it's nowhere near the top of the beat 'em up genre, it's a serviceable game that people probably remember seeing in magazine coverage back then and maybe wanted to try out, and now that it's coming out next to DKC2 they can check it out. That's one of the advantages of a service like this vs the old Virtual Console, where people might not be inclined to spend $8 on a game they are just curious about but might actually get to play for a bit if it comes out with other more appetizing games.
As for the other games, I'm a huge fan of Picross games and it's always great to see Japan only releases make it over; DKC2 speaks for itself and SCAT is a lot of fun (like everything Natsume did back in the NES/SNES days. It's not so much that they are reaching as it is that they have simply reached the end of what they can add themselves without having to deal with other companies. DKC3 and Earthbound iare pretty much the only big non-licensed first party games left and even with those they have to deal with Microsoft and Shigesato Itoi to some extent (not that's going to be much of a problem). They're probably going to add some other console to the service soon-ish (next year?), as we've already speculated, and now that the Mario 3D All-Stars collection revealed the names of the N64 and GC/Wii emulators, it's probable that the other emulator referenced in old versions of the SNES Online app was for the Game Boy, so that might be it. Also, since 3D All-Stars was announced as a temporary release, it's been kinda obvious that the individual games will be available by themselves at some point after March 2021 in some form.
