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Game Boy Games Added to Nintendo Switch Online, Game Boy Advance added to Expansion Pack @ Nintendo eShop

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Posted 8 February 2023

Game Boy Games Added to Nintendo Switch Online, Game Boy Advance added to Expansion Pack @ Nintendo eShop

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Just announced at the Nintendo direct, available to download and play now.

Game Boy:

Tetris
Super Mario Land 2 - 6 Golden Coins
The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening DX
Gargoyle’s Quest
Game & Watch Gallery 3
Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare
Metroid II: Return of Samus
Wario Land 3
Kirby’s Dream Land

Coming Later:

The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages
The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons
Pokemon Trading Card Game
Kirby Tilt ‘n’ Tumble

Game Boy Advance:

Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3
WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$
Kuru Kuru Kururin
Mario Kart: Super Circuit
Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga
The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap

Coming Later:

Metroid Fusion
Kirby and the Amazing Mirror
Fire Emblem
F-Zero: Maximum Velocity
Golden Sun

Enjoy access to a growing library of classic Game Boy and Game Boy Color games anytime, anywhere, right on your Nintendo Switch. A paid Nintendo Switch Online membership is required to use this service.

Included games
Tetris Super Mario Land 2 - 6 Golden Coins The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX GARGOYLE'S QUEST Game & Watch Gallery 3 Alone in the Dark - The New Nightmare Metroid II - Return of Samus Wario Land 3 Kirby's Dream Land

With a Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack membership, access a collection of classic and colorful Game Boy Advance games to play anytime, anywhere! Shrink down for a big adventure in The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap and master sibling strategies in Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga. Gotta take off? Pick up where you left off with suspend points.

Shrink the screen size or enable a retro-style filter to play your way. With online and local wireless multiplayer you can lap opponents in Mario Kart: Super Circuit or battle it out in Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3—no Link Cable required!

A selection of Game Boy Advance games including The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap, Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3, and hidden gems like Kuru Kuru Kururin
Games can also be played offline, so you can play while on the go—anytime, anywhere
Create suspend points for each game to save your progress
Choose a smaller screen size or retro filter to play your way
Play online or with local wireless with up to 3 friends in games like Mario Kart: Super Circuit

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Edited by pirate1, 9 February 2023

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9th Feb
Or get an emulation console off AliExpress for about £50-75 and have access to every GB through to PS1 game. Miyoo Mini (if it ever comes back in stock) or Anbernic RG35.
9th Feb
Well yes, but that's illegal.
9th Feb
Do we know if Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3 contains the 38 e-reader levels? That would be amazing, having them legit after all this time.
9th Feb
Yes it does, they stated this during the direct.
8th Feb
This is not a ‘deal’
8th Feb
Why not? You're getting more for your money. Sounds like a deal to me.
8th Feb
There live now. Great playing GameBoy games again.
9th Feb
They’re*
9th Feb
Mario Land 2 is one of the best Mario games released so far!
9th Feb
Can you 'upgrade' an existing NSO sub to include the expansion?
Author
9th Feb
You can, via your Nintendo account you can use your remaining time left on your current sub to offset against the upgrade cost.
Alternatively, you can join a family subscription group and share the cost, this would end your current membership and replace it with a year of expansion pack
9th Feb
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9th Feb
The switch apps for the retro console all emulate the original games, emulation itself is not illegal.
8th Feb
No pokemon has to be a joke... the game that made gameboy what it was
8th Feb
I know you mean the main games but this one is coming
9th Feb
Love reading all the comments from people claiming ROMs/emulation are illegal, crying about supporting the creators. It's almost as if most of us emulating these games owned them at some point in the past 20 years, paid full retail price at release and have already supported the developers most of which aren't profiting at all from the monthly charge Nintendo gets for them in 2023.

It's embarrassing that adults are getting uppity about a games released in 1998 being emulated.
9th Feb
SIX YEARS!
There's already talk about the successor to the Switch, and they drop this. Too little, too late.
9th Feb
Too little too late? It's like the third best selling console of all time. I don't think Nintendo are too bothered.
9th Feb
GOLDEN SUN
9th Feb
A real classic and quite a surprise to be on the service.
9th Feb
The outstanding The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons and The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages are on their way Interesting made by Capcom under license from Nintendo.
9th Feb
Same as Minish Cap
8th Feb
I put all my original games on my retroarch on firestick. They play brilliantly
9th Feb
You should check out this book
9th Feb
Zelda Link's awakening and Minish cap are fantastic, Oracle of seasons and oracle of ages a bit less imho... but these 4 games alone are worth the price you pay
9th Feb
Awakening DX is one of my favourite Zelda's. It's amazing what they got out of such a basic system like the Gameboy was. (edited)
8th Feb
Any idea when this will be added (edited)
8th Feb
It's available now!
9th Feb
Gargoyle's Quest, seriously under rated
9th Feb
Anyway way to get online + expansion for really cheap?
Like £10 or something?
Author
9th Feb
Join a group membership, same benefits and shared between 8 others works out around £7.50 a year
9th Feb
Have they given up on making new games at Nintendo?? They're just rehashing old games at premium prices.
8th Feb
No "Days of Thunder"?

Pffffff
9th Feb
I was going to say no Solomon's key? But then I remembered the NES version is available but I'd love to try the sequel
9th Feb
Cheapest way to get Nintendo online expansion pack? VPN?
9th Feb
The cheapest way is to do it with or join a group of 8 people in a family group with the expansion pack family membership and split the cost
11th Feb
How is this a deal ? Explain it’s just a Nintendo subscription the emulation on GBA is not good
11th Feb
You don’t have to
8th Feb
Did I just see golden sun....❤️
8th Feb
To be added later no date as of yet
8th Feb
Was hoping for the main series Pokémon games... They're adding Stadium 1+2 eventually and the handheld games were pretty much a requirement for them
9th Feb
Imagine charging an actual money fee to play Advance ROMs .......... Jesus.

Nintendo are really scraping the bottom of the barrel here.
9th Feb
A business which makes their money by creating and selling video games? Selling their games?? For actual money!? OUTRAGEOUS!
8th Feb
Weird selection of games. Why no Super Mario Land 1? But 2.

WHERE IS ALLEYWAY!
9th Feb
A chronological release of classics would have been much better - a curated list that sets out the history of the system and its better games, rather than randomness and sequels.

Classic Nintendo. (edited)
9th Feb
Finally, I'll be able to finish those Oracle games, I think,
9th Feb
Golden Sun,loved that
9th Feb
9th Feb
Wish they added the pokemon games
9th Feb
*laughs in free emulator*
9th Feb
I don't want pirate versions. Anyone can run an emulator for gameboy games. I prefer to support the industry rather than being a criminal. (edited)
9th Feb
Omg omg omg the Minish Cap
9th Feb
Sucks that I can’t just go out and buy Minish Cap, I’m not paying £35 to rent it for a year.
8th Feb
I think I'll join when Fusion, PTCG, stadium 1 and 2 are out. Really surprised by lack of pokemon. But that probably means we will get separate paid releases down the line for them instead.
9th Feb
I suspect it’s to do with the Eshop on the 3DS. The mainline games are still available there and still sell from what I understand. With Stadium coming, and that eshop closing for good in May. I’d be very surprised if we didn’t see them make their way there after that
9th Feb
Its a shame the current games are kinda meh, maybe 2 good game between both releases sofar, that's standard these days tho.
9th Feb
Says you
9th Feb
They will release pokemon next year, just after your current subscription has run out so you buy another
9th Feb
You figured out their strategy!
9th Feb
THE MINISH CAP IS AMAZING! can’t wait to play that again
9th Feb
Still got my original gameboy with tennis, golf and pokemon yellow all stored in a pikachu plush holdall for a a bit of retro gaming.
9th Feb
What??! No Super Mario Land?

What a shame.....I would have paid up just to play this on the big tv.
9th Feb
Would like the original Pokémon games
9th Feb
I hope they open shop for all older games please
9th Feb
Golden Sun. This makes me so happy. REMAKE PLEASE!
9th Feb
ditto...one of my all time favs.