More handheld games for another handheld
The Nintendo Switch Online library may be expanding to new platforms. According to several reports, Game Boy and Game Boy Color games are headed to the Switch Online service.
First reported over on the “Nate the Hate” channel, bothNintendo LifeandEurogamerhave corroborated the addition of Game Boy and Game Boy Color games with their own sources. Eurogamer also mentions it’s heard that other retro platforms are “on the cards.”
Currently, the Nintendo Switch Online library focuses on NES and SNES games. But it’s already reached a point where it feels like it could use some variety, and Game Boy games could be a good way of making that happen.
If expanded out to Game Boy games, that opens the door for the originalLink’s Awakening. Maybe evenWario Land,Kirby’s Dream Land, and the first twoPokemongenerations.
There are stillsome lingering SNES gamesthat could make it onto the service (this is where you hear the cries of those holding out hope forSuper Mario RPG), but the addition of both Game Boy and Game Boy Color games to Nintendo Switch Online could be a big boost to the service’s lineup.
We’ll see if and when Nintendo confirms this news, as the company’s building up toMetroid Dreadin the fall and a newWarioWarejust around the corner.
