Not one, not two, not three but four novelties have made a surprise appearance in the Nintendo Switch Online catalog of classic games. Of course, the funniest and most joyful proposal comes from the pink hero of the Big N: Kirby’s Dream Land 2 makes the leap from the mythical Game Boy to Switch together with a very curious gang of friends and everything that made him an icon of the Big N.
Let’s go in order: starting today, all Nintendo service subscribers have access to two new Game Boy games, which added to the retro Switch proposal last month, as well as two other NES and SNES games that round off and give more variety to the lot.
If they don’t appear among the games you already had available, just update the corresponding apps.
The main course is itself Kirby’s Dream Land 2, originally released in March 1995 (28 years ago, no less!) and which arrives at a key moment on Switch: as of March 27 it will no longer be possible to buy it on Nintendo 3DS and Wii U with the closure of their respective eShop. The Japanese have it all very well tied up.
This version takes advantage of the unique features of the Switch app, including on-the-fly save, rewind, and switching between three visual options inspired by the original Game Boy, Game Boy Pocket, and a Game Boy Color that takes advantage of the delicious sequel to Kirby’s Dream Land. And the same applies to the other new classic straight from the laptop.
The second of the games BurgerTime Deluxe, recovers that arcade legacy of Data East proposing to create the definitive hamburgers. Of course, the secret ingredient of this return is that, like Tetris y Game & Watch Gallery 3we can play online with friends.
More games for Switch directly from the first Nintendo desktops
Both the NES and the Brain of the Beast have plenty of games left that deserve a new lease of life. And despite the fact that those who have just been rescued through Nintendo Switch Online were not in most of the pools, they are probably more than welcome.
To begin with, we have the 8-bit version of the mythical XEVIOUS
Much more unexpected is the Side Pocket from Super Nintendo, Data East’s second contribution to the March consignment that in this case proposes us to throw some pixel-art billiards and overcome some other challenge. Perhaps the rewind option makes the matter less graceful, but that is up to the player.
These two games plus the Game Boy ones are not found in the Nintendo digital store, but through their respective apps based on the classic systems, which serve as an additional claim to the online game or the NSO cloud save. And be careful, looking at previous months, we suspect that we will soon see some more of the Mega Drive, Game Boy Advance or N64 appear.
Definitely, in March the one who gets bored with Switch is because they want to.
