Nintendo Expands Switch Online’s Game Boy Library With Four More Titles

Survival Kids alone would make this update… or half the lineup, for that matter. One of THE handheld Gen 5 classics in my book – a codifier of many things in what would become a partly eponymous genre and still a somewhat Zelda-flavoured actventure at its core, the predecessor to Lost in Blue games and own upcoming NS2 sequel (which likely factored in with the emergence here)… I got several endings while emulating the game way back when, but this will be a good prompt to revisit it for the rest. The Game Boy additions are also neat, especially the relative deep cut that is Kemco’s Sword of Hope (hopefully the sequel, already revisited on 3DS VC westside once, is also in the cards).

@HammerGaladeBro Kid Clown series itself is part of the aforementioned rabbit hole since Night Mayor’s World was basically dolled-up for lack of a regional Disney license Kemco had procured for some of its home turf output. My post-Soviet bootleg childhood being packed with Japanese exotics of the era (Battle City alone was arguably bigger than Mario here in Belarus, and quite possibly an inspirational contribution to the eventual existence of World of Tanks series), I had the original Mickey Mouse Yume Fuusen (Dream Balloon) in my own “Subor” library, and what heck of a platformer it remains to this day! Fingers crossed either incarnation may also join the NSO ranks sometime.