#Best games on nintendo switch archive

Some of the titles on the service have been decimated by the passage of time, but there are a handful of icons from the ’80s and ’90s that hold up surprisingly well.

So if you’re a newcomer to Nintendo, you might not know that the handheld lying on your coffee table hosts multiple decades of gaming history. The Animal Crossing mania was difficult to ignore. It feels like pretty much everyone has purchased a Switch during quarantine. To put that in perspective, there are only 50 games available on the NES Classic and SNES Classic retro mini-consoles combined. Nintendo has been dutifully adding to that catalogue every month, and today, 86 games live on the client. Anyone who owns the console and subscribes to its $3.99-per-month Switch Online service automatically gains access to a trove of NES and SNES titles.

#Best games on nintendo switch archive

Surely we don’t need to be doling out the archive piecemeal, right? Why would anyone spend real money on a 30-year-old game? Thankfully, Nintendo has addressed those qualms beautifully on the Switch. The company’s Virtual Console service, which was available on the Wii, Wii U, and 3DS, hosted an impressive cross-section of old games, but it would also charge you like 5 bucks for the privilege of playing Galaga. Nintendo has built a cottage industry out of reselling its classics over and over again. Photo-Illustration: Vulture Photos Courtesy of Nintendo