Santa Claus was a few days ahead and brings extra blind nostalgia with generous arcade touches. The latest batches of add-on games of the year are coming to Nintendo Switch Online and it doesn’t matter if you’re passionate about puzzles, martial arts or sword and magic quests: you’ve got four new Mega Drive classics waiting to be rediscovered on these very important dates.
La Gran N has announced the new games that are added from today and at no additional cost to the catalog of games from the Expansion Pack of the online service of the Nintendo console. Three essential classics from the first stage of the console (Alien Storm, Columns
Virtua Fighter 2 (Mega Drive)
In fact, this two-dimensional version of Virtua Fighter 2 It is quite a peculiarity: launched in European territory in a very late 1996 for the Mega Drive, SEGA stood out from all the fighting alternatives, losing the polygonal fighters, but preserving the essence of the arcade games: technical blows, picturesque fighters and arcade combat.
Of Alien Storm y Golden Axe 2 only good things can be said. Both inherit SEGA’s arcade legacy, betting on the beat’em of a lifetime but with their own elements of action and fantasy respectively. Did you want an excuse to use the two Switch Joy Con? You already have two.
Columns
Closing the lot we have the biggest nightmare of the colorblind people who released the Mega Drive with the mythical Mega Pack: the mythical Columns. Match jewels by color, make combos to clear the ones that are already placed and try to avoid them from piling up to fill the screen. A classic that never fails.
All four games, by the way, were already included in SEGA Mega Drive Classics for Nintendo Switch, so the new selection isn’t all that special for SEGA fans who picked up the super collection. In any case, these are essential titles that many of us were missing from the Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack catalog.
Golden Axe 2
All four games can be found upon opening the Mega Drive App included in Nintendo Switch Online for all those who purchase the additional batch of content, which adds to the services and classics of NES and SNES the N64 games, the Mega Drive itself and the expansions of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Animal Crossing y Splatoon 2.
And we are not going to deny it, each new game included makes more amortizable the 39.99 dollars per year that cost the service plus the Expansion Pack. Will they be the last titles that will come to Switch Online before 2023? Those who have behaved well will have to trust in the good judgment of Santa Claus. The rest we are completely in the hands of Nintendo.
