This Week’s Nintendo Switch Online Update Is A Weird One
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