{"id":104925,"date":"2019-12-05T02:05:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T02:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/12\/hey_nintendo_can_we_please_have_famicom_wars"},"modified":"2019-12-05T02:05:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T02:05:00","slug":"hey-nintendo-can-we-please-have-famicom-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/12\/05\/hey-nintendo-can-we-please-have-famicom-wars\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey Nintendo, Can We Please Have Famicom Wars?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/67cf8c66832b6\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/67cf8c66832b6\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Famicom Wars\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/67cf8c66832b6\/famicom-wars.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/67cf8c66832b6\/famicom-wars.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Famicom Wars\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>After months of waiting, Nintendo has <em>finally<\/em> announced the next batch of SNES and NES titles will be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/12\/nintendo_expands_the_switch_online_snes_and_nes_service_with_six_classic_games\">added<\/a> to the Switch Online service next week. There are a total of six titles coming to the libraries in America and Europe, but as usual, the line-up is <em>slightly<\/em> different in Japan. This time around, it&#8217;s getting four games:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">US\/EU Update:<br \/>&#8211; Star Fox 2 (SNES)<br \/>&#8211; Kirby Super Star (SNES)<br \/>&#8211; Super Punch-Out!! (SNES)<br \/>&#8211; Breath of Fire II (SNES)<br \/>&#8211; Journey to Silius (NES)<br \/>&#8211; Crystalis (NES)<\/p>\n<p>JP Update:<br \/>&#8211; Star Fox 2 (SNES)<br \/>&#8211; Kirby Super Star (SNES)<br \/>&#8211; Famicom Wars (NES)<br \/>&#8211; Route-16 (NES)<\/p>\n<p><\/span>\u2014 LuigiBlood (@LuigiBlood) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LuigiBlood\/status\/1202395948997120000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 5, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>While Japan \u2013 for once \u2013 appears to be getting fewer games than the west, there&#8217;s one particular title in its line-up that we would absolutely <em>love<\/em> to see made available locally: <strong>Famicom Wars<\/strong>. If the name doesn&#8217;t ring a bell, it&#8217;s the original 1988 NES entry that started out the &#8216;Wars&#8217; series. The first game in this series to reach the west was <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/gba\/advance_wars\">Advance Wars<\/a><\/strong> for the Game Boy Advance in 2001.<\/p>\n<p>Famicom Wars has been released multiple times on Nintendo&#8217;s digital storefronts in Japan but has skipped the west every single time. If you do want to play it on your Switch though, you can always create a Japanese account and then download this particular version of the NES app.<\/p>\n<p><em>Is this a game you&#8217;ve been wanting to play? Comment down below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After months of waiting, Nintendo has finally announced the next batch of SNES and NES titles will be added to the Switch Online service next week. There are a total of six titles coming to the libraries in America and Europe, but as usual, the line-up is slightly different in Japan. This time around, it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}