{"id":62139,"date":"2018-11-14T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-14T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/11\/reminder_three_new_nes_games_have_launched_on_switch_today_plus_another_bonus_sp_version"},"modified":"2018-11-14T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T10:00:00","slug":"reminder-three-new-nes-games-have-launched-on-switch-today-plus-another-bonus-sp-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/11\/14\/reminder-three-new-nes-games-have-launched-on-switch-today-plus-another-bonus-sp-version\/","title":{"rendered":"Reminder: Three New NES Games Have Launched On Switch Today, Plus Another Bonus SP Version"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/9e119a67fde8a\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/9e119a67fde8a\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Nes\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/9e119a67fde8a\/nes.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/9e119a67fde8a\/nes.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Nes\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>As promised, today sees another trio of retro delights hit the Nintendo Switch Online &#8211; Nintendo Entertainment System library of games (plus a special bonus version, too). If you&#8217;re subscribed to the service, here&#8217;s what you can expect to find joining your collection.<\/p>\n<p>The three main additions this month are <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nes\/metroid\">Metroid<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nes\/mighty_bomb_jack\">Mighty Bomb Jack<\/a><\/strong> and <strong>TwinBee<\/strong>, all of which can be seen in action in this tweet from Nintendo of Europe below. If you&#8217;re unfamiliar with any of these games, hopefully these quick snippets of footage will give you an idea of what you&#8217;ll find.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">New games have been added to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NintendoSwitchOnline?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NintendoSwitchOnline<\/a> \u2013 Nintendo Entertainment System!<\/p>\n<p>Traverse the depths of Planet Zebes in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Metroid?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Metroid<\/a>, defeat the evil Belzebut in Mighty Bomb Jack, and blast your way to victory in TwinBee!<\/p>\n<p>See the current line-up here: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BaU6CfPrXj\">https:\/\/t.co\/BaU6CfPrXj<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5glBl2dX75\">pic.twitter.com\/5glBl2dX75<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/span>\u2014 Nintendo of Europe (@NintendoEurope) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NintendoEurope\/status\/1062631465773600769?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 14, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>You may remember that October brought with it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/10\/surprise_a_special_version_of_the_legend_of_zelda_has_appeared_in_the_switchs_nes_library\">a surprise, special version<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nes\/legend_of_zelda\"><strong>The Legend of Zelda<\/strong><\/a>, technically resulting in four games being added. Well, the very same thing has happened this month, with the already-included <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nes\/gradius\"><strong>Gradius<\/strong><\/a> seeing a new version appear which throws you in at Stage 5 with a lovely maxed-out ship. If you found the original a little tricky, this should give you a helping hand.<\/p>\n<p>Just to remind you, December will add <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nes\/warios_woods\">Wario&#8217;s Woods<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/vcarcade\/ninja_gaiden\">Ninja Gaiden<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nes\/adventures_of_lolo\">Adventures of Lolo<\/a><\/strong> to the mix, too, and we wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if another special edition of an already-existing game finds its way to the console to continue the trend.<\/p>\n<p><em>Will you be giving these new games a whirl today? Let us know in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As promised, today sees another trio of retro delights hit the Nintendo Switch Online &#8211; Nintendo Entertainment System library of games (plus a special bonus version, too). If you&#8217;re subscribed to the service, here&#8217;s what you can expect to find joining your collection. The three main additions this month are Metroid, Mighty Bomb Jack and [&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-62139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62139","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=62139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}