Four Classic Titles Are Being Added To Nintendo Switch Online Later Today

Four classic titles from Nintendo‘s back-catalog of Game Boy, Super NES, and NES games are being added to the Nintendo Switch Online service later today, as revealed in a video update published by Nintendo of America this morning. From March 16 onward, Nintendo Switch Online subscribers will be able to play Side Pocket (Super NES), Xevious (NES), Kirby’s Dream Land 2 (Game Boy), and BurgerTime Deluxe (likewise) via the service.

Kirby’s Dream Land 2 and BurgerTime Deluxe are the first two Game Boy games to be added to Nintendo Switch Online since the Game Boy console joined the service last month. With the addition of Kirby’s Dream Land 2 and BurgerTime Deluxe, a total of eleven Game Boy and Game Boy Color games will be playable via Nintendo Switch Online.

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Kirby’s Dream Land 2, originally released for the Game Boy in 1995, is a side-scrolling platformer long regarded by fans as one of the strongest titles in the Kirby series, and on the Game Boy overall. In the 20th anniversary issue of the now-defunct magazine Nintendo Power, Kirby’s Dream Land 2 was ranked as one of the top ten games on the Game Boy/Game Boy Color system.

BurgerTime Deluxe, on the other hand, first launched in 1991 as a Game Boy exclusive sequel to the classic Data East arcade title, BurgerTime. A high-score-based game, BurgerTime Deluxe tasks players with dashing around a kitchen and assembling hamburgers while keeping well away from rogue ingredients.

Moving on to the pair of Super NES and NES games being added to the Nintendo Switch Online service this month: both Side Pocket and Xevious are console ports of the arcade classics of the same name. Side Pocket, a billiards simulator also developed by Data East, was released on the Super NES in 1993 as an enhanced version of the arcade original.

Vertical shmup Xevious by Namco, meanwhile, was famously one of the first third-party arcade games to receive an NES conversion. Originally a Japanese-only release, the NES version of Xevious was eventually published by Bandai in North America under the localized title of Xevious: The Avenger. Bandai and Namco merged in 2005 and are best known today as Bandai Namco.

At the time of writing, Nintendo Switch Online features over a hundred games from Nintendo’s retro library. Annually, an individual subscription to Nintendo Switch Online costs 19.99 USD, although a free 7-day trial is alternatively available to anyone who has not previously used the service.

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