Almost six years after its market launch Nintendo Switch Online is still getting new NES classics to its on-demand subscription service. Nintendo announced that seven more games are now available to play. The esoteric bunch, which includes Mach Rider And The Secret of Atlantismeans that almost every first-party game ever released on NES is now in the retro library.
Here is the full list of surprise additions.
- Urban Champion
- golf
- Donkey Kong Jr. Math
- Mach Rider
- The Secret of Atlantis
- Solar Jetman
- Cobra Triangle
Urban Champion, golf, Mach RiderAnd Donkey Kong Jr. Math were all manufactured and published by Nintendo. Cobra Trianglean isometric action game with a crazy speedboat and Solar Jetmana sci-fi flight simulator, were both developed by Rare, with composer David Wise of Donkey Kong Land Fame Goals in both games. The Secret of Atlantis is much stranger. Sunsoft’s Super Mario Bros.-inspired side-scroller was never released outside of Japan and looks badass. There are 101 zones to explore and the enemies kill you in one hit.
The most easily overlooked innovation is perhaps golfa simple sports simulation title for the NES, developed jointly by Nintendo and HAL Laboratory. The late president of Nintendo, Satoru Iwata, was the sole programmer on the project, and the game has been used in the past as a nod to his legacy and his early death at the age of 55 due to cancer.
Change hackers already discovered in 2017the year the Switch was released that the console was a secret copy of golf which would be unlocked and playable on the day of his death, July 11, when players used the Joy-Con’s motion controls to control Iwata’s typical Nintendo Direct hand gesture. The hidden Easter Egg was later removed in firmware update 4.0.0. Fortunately golf is now back, just a week before the ninth anniversary of the longtime Nintendo developer’s death.
