We have to say this week’s Nintendo Switch Online update is better than the norm, and it happens to be in the NES and Game Boy sections of the service — the places you’d think would be exhausted of significant updates by now. But no, we received a quartet of 8-bit classics to chew on this Thanksgiving weekend, leading with the legendary Battletoads.
Battletoads is pretty much the game that introduced Rare to North America, not that they hadn’t released games here before but this was their first title significant enough to attract attention to their specific brand. Rash, Zitz and Pimple. three toads in outer space, are tasked with saving a purloined princess (and Pimple) from the clutches of the evil (yet delightful) Dark Queen. Be warned that all the stories from Millennials about this game being “hard” are true. You might stand a better chance with the rewind feature, but you’ll still need all the luck in the world, and heavy memorization muscles, for that third level.
The NES also gets Ninja Gaiden 2, the second in the original 8-bit trilogy. It’s difficult, but not as much as Battletoads is. If you’re keeping track, the first Ninja Gaiden was put on NSO seven years ago, Hope it doesn’t take another seven for Ninja Gaiden 3.
On the Game Boy side of things, we have Kid Icarus: Of Myths And Monsters and Bionic Commando. Until Kid Icarus Uprising, this was the only sequel the popular NES game ever got. The NES version of Bionic Commando is preferable to the Game Boy one, but it’s no slouch.
Eat up these four games and have a mad, bad and crazy Thanksgiving.




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