

More like why not include games from all past Nintendo systems? Easy, Nintendo is just hoarding them for their dry spells. And yes, it had Mother 3 and a whole bunch of outstanding RPGs.

You can scroll thorough our list of the Best Game Boy Advance games and get a feel for just how good it was at its peak.

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At the time it was considered almost like a portable Super NES - that wasn't quite accurate, but it attracted a library befitting that status. It was home to a lot of high-quality games, with deliciously varied exclusives, ports and remasters. Moving beyond our Metroid obsession - hey, it's been a long time, okay? - the GBA would be a wonderful addition to the Switch Online service. It was home to a lot of high-quality games, with deliciously varied exclusives, ports and remasters GBA would be a wonderful addition to the Switch Online service. The reaction on social media would certainly be fun if that happened. It could suddenly decide to remedy the situation not only by adding Game Boy titles via Switch Online apps, but also dropping a port / ROM of GBA's Fusion on the eShop. It seems like a slightly silly state of affairs. If you want to play Fusion on modern-ish hardware you need to dig out a Wii U for the Virtual Console version or have received it as part of the 'Ambassador Program' on 3DS. Yet we could, if rumours are correct, have access to all lore-numbered Metroid games except Fusion on Switch, and potentially before the release of Dread. Now, developer MercurySteam's previous title pre-Dread, Metroid: Samus Returns (a remake of 2) will likely have lore and stylistic links to Dread, but the Fusion link is the most direct. Metroid Games You Need To Play Before Metroid Dread.You can currently play 'Metroid 1' and 'Metroid 3' on Switch through the Online service - Metroid and Super Metroid, that is - and if Game Boy arrives, Nintendo could add the original 8-bit sequel, Metroid II: Return of Samus. With Dread likely to be the best-selling Metroid game by a distance, courtesy of an anticipated bump from an eager Switch audience with arguably more 'core' players than any Nintendo console since the SNES, it makes sense that newcomers also may want to play through the game's predecessors. What's been clear from marketing and promotion is that Metroid Dread, also sort-of called 'Metroid 5', will be directly following on from 'Metroid 4', or Metroid Fusion as most of us know it. It can follow a similar pattern to that seen with the NES and SNES apps, moving us away from the Virtual Console past - where the original GB and its Color brethren featured on 3DS - and into the subscription app world. Yet reports of Game Boy and Game Boy Color being on the way soon aren't necessarily surprising - emulation for these titles won't present any problems, and it'll help shift the narrative a little around the service. With Switch selling so well and the company being in a ludicrously strong financial position, Nintendo isn't exactly under pressure to make headlines and win over long-time fans with more retro games in NSO. Aside from some oft-demanded stand-outs that remain absent, the NES and SNES apps have looked rather bereft of ideas, adding little-heard-of games that are certainly worth a play but, ultimately, don't get the pulse racing.
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We have had some turnover of free online games, most recently with Pac-Man 99, and a slow and steady influx of NES and SNES titles, but generally it's been a quiet time. Nintendo Switch Online has been relatively static, as a service, for quite some time.
