If ever a series proved the effectiveness of the “throw spaghetti at the wall” creative process, it’s WarioWare. Mike Mahardy Wario Ware Inc.: Mega Microgames! Image: Nintendo R&D1/Nintendo Mario’s flagship platformers often overshadow the role-playing chapters in his varied history, but the latter remain some of the franchise’s most creative endeavors. In Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, you control the titular siblings simultaneously in the overworld and during battles, the latter of which emphasize timed attacks to gain the upper hand. What began as a Final Fantasy-esque jaunt through the mushroom kingdom on SNES ( Super Mario RPG), and evolved into a whimsical exercise in genre-blending on Nintendo 64 ( Paper Mario), finally became an earnest, comical, altogether more confident RPG on Game Boy Advance. Taken as a through line, the Mario role-playing games represent Nintendo’s increasing willingness to branch out with its most iconic character. Mike Mahardy Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga Image: AlphaDream/Nintendo And with DX on Game Boy Color, Koholint came to life, with an array of colors and a whole new dungeon. It’s as much a bizarre departure from the Legend of Zelda series as David Lynch’s series was from mainstream TV. Director Takashi Tezuka wanted Link’s Awakening to feel like an episode of Twin Peaks, and his team pulled it off. Gone was the land of Hyrule from The Legend of Zelda and Link’s Adventure the camera sometimes swapped from an overhead view to a 2D side-scrolling perspective and Nintendo characters made cameos across Koholint Island, from Yoshi, to Kirby, to Wart. In playing The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening on Nintendo Switch in 2019, it was easy to forget just how weird the original game was on Game Boy. The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening DX Image: Nintendo Some of these games are historically significant, more are just damn fun, and others may be hidden gems you’ve never played. To keep up with the recent influx, we’ve updated our list of the best retro games on Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack. If you pay for the Expansion Pack, you also have six Game Boy Advance games to choose from (also with more to come). If you subscribe to the base tier of Nintendo Switch Online, nine Game Boy games now complement your library of NES and SNES titles, with more to come. Wednesday, during a Nintendo Direct presentation, that list got even bigger: Nintendo has added Game Boy and Game Boy Advance games to the mix. In 2021, Nintendo added an additional tier to its Nintendo Switch Online subscription service in the form of its Expansion Pack, which brought Nintendo 64 and Sega Genesis games to the already extensive list of NES and SNES titles.
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