

What’s more is that these games have been updated to include online multiplayer, or in the case of single-player games, a spectator mode (which goes in hand with Nintendo’s voice chat app for cellphones, but let’s not talk about that).

Games like Super Mario Bros, Super Mario Bros 3, The Legend of Zelda, Double Dragon, Gradius, Ghosts‘n Goblins and River City Ransom are included in the first batch of 20 games available right now, with more like Metroid and Ninja Gaiden to come in the following months. The NES app, or “Nintendo Entertainment System” as it’s very plainly but officially called, is an enclosed library of NES games, including both first and third-party titles from Nintendo’s revolutionary, industry-changing console from the 80s.

Virtual Console long gone, never to be seen again, Nintendo has given us a debut of their new retro gaming offering with the NES app for the Nintendo Switch, which comes as an included perk of the newly launched Nintendo Switch Online service.
