Nintendo Switch Online subscribers will have a new selection of retro games to play through in only a week’s time. The announcement of 2 new SNES games and 1 new NES game came from Nintendo today and will be the first games to appear on either console’s NSO service since May this year. 1994’s Donkey Kong Country and Natsume Championship Wrestling will bring the total collection of SNES games on NSO up to 30 while the 1990’s The Immortal takes the NES tally to 54 games.
Three more titles will be added to the #NES & #SNES – #NintendoSwitchOnline collection on 7/15, including #DonkeyKong Country!
Super NES – Nintendo Switch Online:
・Donkey Kong Country
・Natsume Championship Wrestling
NES – Nintendo Switch Online:
・The Immortal pic.twitter.com/dNQ5A1yQhD— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) July 8, 2020
Donkey Kong Country is likely to cause the most excitement amongst retro gaming fans as the classic 2D platformer remains one of the SNES’s most memorable outings thanks to its technical achievements (for the time), addicting gameplay, and mesmerising David Wise soundtrack. The game is famous for converting 3D pre-rendered models over to the sprite-based Super Nintendo resulting in visuals that contained a degree of depth and detail never before seen at the time.
As the name suggests, Natsume Championship Wrestling is all about duking it out in the ring as one of 12 wrestlers thanks to an impressively robust move set for a pioneer in the wrestling genre. The Immortal is an isometric action-adventure game about a fire-ball shooting wizard making their way through a perilous dungeon. Interestingly, Japan won’t be getting Natsume Championship Wrestling and instead will be receiving the Super Famicom version of Shin Megami Tensei.
Donkey Kong Country, Natsume Championship Wrestling, and The Immortal will all be made available on the SNES and NES Nintendo Switch Online services on July 15. For more DKC goodness, check out our Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze Review on Switch.
