Five Rare Games Join Nintendo Switch Online At Once
During their Direct this morning, the usual Nintendo Switch Online update turned out to be rather unexpected. Not only were five additional titles from Rare confirmed for the service, we’re getting them nearly immediately. The first two are for the NES: RC Pro-Am and Snake, Rattle and Roll. Pro-Am was one of Rare’s first stand-out titles in the US, before anyone here knew who they were…an overhead RC car racing game with smoothly rendered vehicles and support for up to four players at once was quite an achievement back then. Snake, Rattle and Roll wasn’t quite as well known back in the day but has gained a cult following now. If anything, its soundtrack is a bop. Killer Instinct and Battletoads in Battlemaniacs are the two SNES entries. Killer Instinct was promised as an N64 launch title (the cabinet told us so!) but delays in the launch created the necessity of an SNES port to pad the time. It’s no KI Gold but it does its job. As for Battlemaniacs,