Nintendo Switch Online Gets Kirby, Harvest Moon And More
It’s been months since the NES and SNES categories of Nintendo Switch Online were updated. They were the libraries that started this whole service, but as time has gone on the number of available titles you can add that aren’t already there has dwindled. Yeah, there are some popular third-party games that are still absent, but that’s because their respective holders consider them too valuable to give away here. As for Super Mario RPG….no, we still don’t know what the case is with Super Mario RPG.
Nintendo managed to find two games that weren’t there yet, though, and they added them today in a surprise update that also updates the Game Boy library with two more titles, for four altogether.
The biggest surprise of the bunch is the original Harvest Moon, released for the SNES in 1997 when no one bought games for the SNES anymore. Because of its scarcity, its value has skyrocketed, and the only available copy beyond the SNES cart was the Wii U version, which you definitely can’t buy anymore. It’s been rectified now, though! This game is the grandfather of farming sims — Stardew Valley and similar games owe their existence to Harvest Moon.
Then there’s Kirby Tilt ‘n Tumble for the Game Boy. Released in 2000, it uses no buttons…Kirby is guided entirely by tilt controls. Good thing the Switch comes with ’em built in. There’s also Blaster Master: Enemy Below, a sequel to the NES game that looks and plays very much like the original (which is in the NES library already).
Finally, the NES has been updated with Namco’s Mystery Tower, a Famicom exclusive puzzle game where you must ascend the titular tower by solving puzzles to reveal climbable areas. All four games are now playable on Nintendo Switch Online.
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