{"id":136301,"date":"2026-03-04T01:25:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T01:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-198225"},"modified":"2026-03-04T01:25:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T01:25:00","slug":"nintendo-expands-switch-onlines-virtual-boy-and-gba-library-with-three-more-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2026\/03\/04\/nintendo-expands-switch-onlines-virtual-boy-and-gba-library-with-three-more-titles\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Expands Switch Online&#8217;s Virtual Boy And GBA Library With Three More Titles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d337f3941ef3c\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d337f3941ef3c\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<figure class=\"youtube\" data-videoid=\"X5w3lAC4B5I\" data-start=\"0\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/X5w3lAC4B5I?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1\">\n<p>[embedded content]<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Ahead of the <strong>10th March 2026<\/strong> (aka Mario Day), Nintendo has announced it will be expanding the Switch Online + Expansion Pack service for the Switch and Switch 2.<\/p>\n<p>These three titles arriving on Mario Day include two Virtual Boy games and one Game Boy Advance title, with all of these titles requiring users to have access to the Expansion Pack tier. For the Virtual Boy, we&#8217;ve got Mario&#8217;s tennis outing, and Clash draws on the original <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/arcade\/mario_bros\">Mario Bros.<\/a> title. As for GBA, Nintendo has added Mario and DK&#8217;s puzzle-platformer.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s every title included in this latest &#8216;Nintendo Classics&#8217; update:<\/p>\n<h3>Virtual Boy<\/h3>\n<aside class=\"gallery\">\n<div class=\"cols cols-2\">\n<div class=\"col col-1 col-width-50\"><a title=\"Virtual Boy Switch\" class=\"scanlines\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d56bf1639e70e\/virtual-boy-switch.large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d56bf1639e70e\/virtual-boy-switch.445x250.jpg\" width=\"445\" height=\"250\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Virtual Boy Switch\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"col col-1 col-width-50\"><a title=\"Virtual Boy Switch\" class=\"scanlines scanlines\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/ef9f29b9dfa1a\/virtual-boy-switch.large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/ef9f29b9dfa1a\/virtual-boy-switch.445x250.jpg\" width=\"445\" height=\"250\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Virtual Boy Switch\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\"><span class><\/span> Images: Nintendo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/aside>\n<h3>Game Boy Advance<\/h3>\n<figure class=\"picture\" data-uuid=\"54b1a757f64ef\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"GBA Switch\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/54b1a757f64ef\/gba-switch.large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/54b1a757f64ef\/gba-switch.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"GBA Switch\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\"><span class><\/span> Image: Nintendo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Japan has received the same three titles in this week&#8217;s update. Once again, you&#8217;ll need to have access to the Switch Online + Expansion Pack subscription tier to play them. You can find out what other games are available on this service in our full guide here on Nintendo Life.<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/ssl\/nintendo-switch-2\/related-articles:92427,197716,197597 @ 1772613269 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\"> <\/aside>\n<p>What do you think of these latest games for the Nintendo Classics service? <em>Let us know in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[embedded content] Ahead of the 10th March 2026 (aka Mario Day), Nintendo has announced it will be expanding the Switch Online + Expansion Pack service for the Switch and Switch 2. These three titles arriving on Mario Day include two Virtual Boy games and one Game Boy Advance title, with all of these titles requiring [&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-136301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136301","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=136301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}