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Nintendo Switch Online Gets Three More Retro SNES Gems

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Published: January 24, 2025 10:47 AM

Nintendo has added three more SNES games to its Nintendo Switch Online library, and if you like your gaming experiences a little bit more obscure, you'll almost certainly get a kick out of these.

All three games are available to check out right now, and as with all SNES games on the service, you won't need an Expansion Pack addon to play them.

First up, it's 1992 fighter Fatal Fury 2, which was released that year in arcades but which took two extra years to reach Nintendo's console. It comes complete with eight playable fighters, many of whom are still hanging around in the roster for upcoming mainline entry Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves.

Mai Shiranui fighting Terry Bogard in Fatal Fury 2, which is part of the Nintendo Switch Online January 2025 haul
Fatal Fury 2 is one of three SNES titles joining Nintendo Switch Online today.

Your next SNES game to join Nintendo Switch Online today is Super Ninja Boy, an intriguing genre mixture that blends an action RPG framework with side-scrolling combat in a way that's not entirely dissimilar to The Legend of Zelda 2. Unlike that game, though, this one features co-op, so grab a friend and check out one of the SNES' more unique games.

Finally, you can enjoy 1997 block puzzler Sutte Hakkun, which hasn't been made available outside Japan until now. As you'd probably expect, much of the game's text is in Japanese, but the basic concepts are fairly easy to grasp, so you should still be able to enjoy it even if you don't speak the language.

You can check out a trailer for all three of these games, which gives a sense of how each of them plays, right here.

Earlier this month, Nintendo officially announced the Switch 2, and while the console's official site confirms that Switch Online will still be available on the platform, we don't know if any major changes will be made to the service. We'll have to wait and see on that front.

Until then, these three SNES games are available to play right now for all Nintendo Switch Online subscribers. Stay tuned for more.

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