Nintendo has announced the next batch of games coming to the Game Boy Advance library for Nintendo Switch Online and Expansion Pack subscribers, and it’s always all about Mario. The first three games in the Super Mario Advance series will be added to the collection in a week, Friday May 26th.
Among the three are two of the best platformers – honestly, two of the best games – of all time. Super Mario Advance 2 brought the Super Nintendo Launch classic Super Mario world RECEIVE while Super Mario Advance 3 did the same for its beautiful, hilarious and very different sequel, Yoshi’s island. They’re perfect conversions and nice to have, although both (without expansion pack membership) are playable in their original versions in Switch Online’s SNES Collection.
The first Super Mario Advance does not belong to the same god level, although it is arguably a more interesting release. This was a 2001 renovation of the much-maligned building Super Mario Bros. 2a weird NES game from 1988 about throwing vegetables that was itself a reboot of a game called Doki Doki Panicmade when the American market was resisting Nintendo’s original Super Mario Bros. Consequence. The Super Mario Advance The graphics have been nicely updated in this version and it was the beginning of a crucial turn in the game and its charmingly strange gameplay. Again, the original NES version is already available with a basic Switch Online membership, but in this case the GBA remake is definitely the version to play.
The three games combine Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3 to complete the availability of the Super Mario Advance series on Nintendo Switch Online.
