Nintendo Switch Online haunts us again with boring SNES and NES games

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Good news: Nintendo Switch Online is getting new (old) SNES and NES games that you can play on your Nintendo Switch as part of Nintendo's subscription service. Bad news, everything is bullshit. Drum roll for the new additions please... We welcome the SNES titles Caveman Ninja (AKA Joe & Mac), Super Baseball Simulator 1.000, Magical Drop2 and Spanky's Quest, as well as the NES Ninja title JaJaMaru-Kun.

5 titles coming to the #SNES & #NES - #NintendoSwitchOnline collection on 26/05! Super NES - Nintendo Switch Online: ・ Super Baseball Simulator 1.000 ・ Caveman Ninja (aka Joe & Mac) ・ Magical Drop2 ・ Spanky's QuestNES - Nintendo Switch Online: ・ Ninja JaJaMaru-kun pic.twitter.com/OzYmF7lIYk May 19, 2021 More Info As Twitter user @mariesleepy put it succinctly in response to Nintendo's tweeted announcement, "they literally can't put out a game that only one soul cares about." Guess Caveman Ninja is alright, a take on an arcade platformer with a humorous prehistoric vibe. But we would hardly call it a classic. Spanky's Quest has a good name too I guess. But where is Earthbound? Where is Super Mario RPG? The trigger for a stopwatch? Even a Super Star Wars game?

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After getting off to a good start, Nintendo Switch Online is now getting the cuts from the SNES and NES catalogs. The service is already the weakest of the console gaming subscription services, and Nintendo really needs to up its game in this department. It's about time Nintendo added another console to its Switch Online platform. What about Game Boy, Game Boy Advance or Game Boy Color? There are some great ones hiding in there, perfectly tested for portable gaming on the go. Or, whisper, even the Nintendo 64? These are classic systems that Nintendo has offered in the past via digital download services, so what's stopping them from moving on to Switch? If Nintendo expects its gamers to keep reaching into their pockets for its subscription service, it's going to have to reach for the classics.