Nintendo has added three new Game Boy games to the Nintendo Switch Online library of titles, each a launch title for the handheld.
The headline addition is Super Mario Land, the classic mini-Mario platformer that launched on Nintendo’s handheld console back in 1989.
Next is Alleyway, another classic 1989 Game Boy game developed by Nintendo and Intelligent Systems as a launch title for the handheld. This Breakout clone was one of the first four games released for the Game Boy.
And finally, Baseball rounds out the list of additions. Nintendo’s sports game first launched for the Famicom in Japan in 1983 before hitting it out the park on the NES in 1985. The Game Boy version launched alongside the console in 1989.
Three classic games are now available to play for #NintendoSwitchOnline members!#GameBoy:
— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) May 15, 2024
☑️ Super Mario Land
☑️ Alleyway
☑️ Baseball pic.twitter.com/jbQN6uLGN5
Game Boy games added to Nintendo Switch Online on May 15, 2024:
Here's the official blurb from Nintendo:
To properly celebrate 35 years of the Game Boy system, we have to take it back to year one! Game Boy launched in 1989, and with it arrived classic titles such as Baseball, Alleyway and the first Super Mario game available on the system, Super Mario Land. Today, Nintendo Switch Online members can play all three of these original launch titles as the latest additions to the Game Boy – Nintendo Switch Online library. All just in time for the system’s 35th anniversary!
Interestingly, Nintendo Switch Online Japan gets an extra game: The Frog For Whom the Bell Tolls. This Nintendo and Intelligent Systems-developed action role-playing game was released for the Game Boy exclusively in Japan in 1992.
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