Nintendo Classics Libraries Add Two New NES, Game Boy Games – News

Nintendo has dropped updates to the Game Boy and NES libraries for Nintendo Switch Online base subscribers tonight, with a dash of first party and two of the NES’s more infamous action games.

NES Library

• Ninja Gaiden II: The Dark Sword of Chaos (1990) is the second in the NES trilogy of hack-and-slash platformers starring the famous Ryu Hayabusa. A sequel set a year after the events of the first game, it was previously released on all of the Virtual Console platforms (Wii, 3DS, Wii U).
• Battletoads (1991) is the original game in the short-lived Rare action series and one of the last major NES releases in North America before the launch of the Super Nintendo. Known for its difficulty – including the 2 player mode being unfinishable due to the second player constantly dying upon spawn in one of the last levels – this release is its first on a Nintendo platform, though it was included in the 2015 Xbox One collection Rare Replay.

Game Boy Library

• Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters (1991) is the sole direct sequel to the often-released NES classic and was the last game in the franchise until the 2012 revival Kid Icarus Uprising. It was previously re-released on the 3DS Virtual Console as a part of Uprising’s promotion.
• Bionic Commando (1992) is an adaptation of the NES classic, which echews the then-modern setting of the original for a more futuristic one and was the first to refer to the player character as “Rad” Spencer instead of the translation error of “Ladd”. This is the first ever re-release for the game.