{"id":281204,"date":"2024-05-15T19:58:50","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T17:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=332426"},"modified":"2025-07-01T16:30:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T23:30:06","slug":"three-mythical-game-boy-games-are-coming-to-nintendo-switch-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/three-mythical-game-boy-games-are-coming-to-nintendo-switch-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Three mythical Game Boy games are coming to Nintendo Switch Online"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nintendo seems to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/two-of-the-most-beloved-game-boy-advance-games-finally-arrive-on-nintendo-switch-online\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">have decided to step up its Game Boy catalog<\/a>. <strong>Being one of the least cared for consoles within the Nintendo Switch Online subscription service, today they have announced that they are going to release three classics from the platform<\/strong>. Moreover, they are already available for all interested parties. What are these games?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alleyway was one of the games in the initial Game Boy catalog, which was also very successful. <strong>It is a game in the style of Breakout or Arkanoid, where we have to destroy blocks with a ball, and we control a bar to bounce that same ball<\/strong>. The peculiarity of Alleyway is that Mario is the protagonist of the game, although he never appears characterized that way in-game. But hey, it was &#8217;89: the covers were the graphics of the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Play Super Mario Land and more with Nintendo Switch Online!\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2VDORSNB1Hs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Another one of the games to arrive, also from the initial catalog, is the legendary Baseball. <strong>A fun recreation of this sport, much more popular in the US and Japan<\/strong>, which will probably be the one that goes unnoticed the most among the new additions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The jewel in the crown of the new titles is, without a doubt, Super Mario Land. <strong>Published in 1989 and not only being one of the titles in the console&#8217;s initial catalog, but also its main selling point, it is an excellent 2D platformer that adapts Mario&#8217;s classic gameplay to the small screen of the Game Boy<\/strong>. All this while introducing new enemies, powers, and some small twists in level design that are still very original today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Game Boy - Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Waru [1992]\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kNE9WFdVX2A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, in Japan they will also receive a fourth game, which never came out outside of Japan: Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru. <strong>Translated as &#8220;For the frog the bells toll&#8221;, this game inspired by &#8220;For Whom the Bell Tolls&#8221; by Ernest Hemingway, is heavily inspired by the second and third The Legend of Zelda<\/strong>, and in fact, it would serve as the basis for what would later become The Legend of Zelda: Link&#8217;s Awakening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although we can only enjoy the first three, <strong>it is an excellent selection that shows that Nintendo is paying more attention and care to the Game Boy<\/strong>. Even if we have had to wait for the Switch 2 to be on the horizon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three iconic Game Boy games are coming to Nintendo Switch Online, and exclusively in Japan, a classic from the console that shaped one of the best Zelda games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9268,"featured_media":281206,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":1},"categories":[1018,1015],"tags":[1438,2275],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-281204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","category-news","tag-game-boy","tag-switch"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9268"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313170,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281204\/revisions\/313170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281204"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=281204"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=281204"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=281204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}