Five more NES & SNES titles are joining the Nintendo Switch Online Collection

Blasts from the Past

Nintendo has announced that it will be adding four new titles to the Nintendo Switch Online Collection app — a compilation of classic NES & SNES releases that are readily accessible to all users who have a Nintendo Switch Online subscription.

Joining the roster on May 26 will be Jaleco’sNinja JaJaMaru-kun, a rarity that first launched for the Famicom back in 1985. From the 16-bit SNES era, the Online Collection will be receiving Natsume’s 1991 action titleSpanky’s Quest, Culture Brain’s 1991 sports releaseSuper Baseball Simulator 1.000, Data East’s arcade platformerJoe & Mac: Cavemen Ninjaand, also from Data East, one of my personal favorite puzzle games,Magical Drop II, which is getting its first ever western release.

Now, admittedly this is hardly the most exciting or world-renown of releases, but it’s definitely an interesting batch of oddities. The Nintendo Switch Online Collection seems to be a solid blend of the obvious (Super Metroid, Super Mario World, StarFox) and the sublime (Wild Guns, River City Ransom, Gradius). But I hope that Nintendo will continue to pull both popular and unknown releases from its extensive back catalogue of yesteryear’s hits.