We’ve got some new 8 and 16-bit games coming to Nintendo Switch Online today, but I doubt anyone expected any of them. The first, Kirby’s Star Stacker, was only released in America as a Game Boy title. There was a Super NES version, but it came out in Japan in 1998, and Nintendo‘s last batch of first-party SNES titles for the West was released at the end of 1997. What we’re getting is the SNES version, released in the US for the first time.
The downside is it’s the unaltered original with Japanese text, so you may find navigation a bit difficult. But it’s not alone. Four games were added to NSO today and THREE OF THEM are in Japanese.
Both titles added to the NES library are Famicom originals. Downtown Nekketsu March Super-Awesome Field Day! is the mouthful title for what’s actually a Kunio-Kun game. You know Kunio-Kun from all those “River City” beat-em-ups. Joy Mech Fight is an interesting experience; the fighting game craze of the 90s mostly left the NES in the dust because it could not produce the large sprites the characters typically had. Joy Mech Fight is an attempt to work around the NES’ sprite limitations by making all the characters limbless. It’s an interesting idea!
Finally there’s Quest For Camelot for the Game Boy, based on the 1998 animated movie. A lot of people don’t remember it, but this was one of the launch titles for the Game Boy Color and, though it was developed by Titus of “Superman 64″ fame, was published and distributed by Nintendo themselves. We don’t expect to see too many games based on licensed properties like movies on NSO. Usually the red tape is just too much of a hassle. But re-licensing Quest For Camelot can’t have cost any more than seven bucks.
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