Nintendo Mini Classics: The Smurfs

After months of speculation, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time was unveiled for Switch 2 during this week's Nintendo Direct. It's the latest in a long line of remakes and remasters for Zelda 3D titles, but also raises the question: Why aren't there new versions of the franchise's first three mainline entries? Nintendo has never remade The Legend of Zelda, Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, or The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. These 2D classics for NES and SNES are what made people fall in love with the action-adventure series to begin with. They even feature gameplay features still see

Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack members can spend the rest of the summer in Delfino Isle with the addition of Super Mario Sunshine.

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The NES, SNES, and Game Boy Nintendo Switch Online apps all received mysterious updates (to versions 9.0.0, 6.0.0, and 4.0.0, respectively), and a prolific dataminer has claimed that these patches are meant to add challenges. These challenges aren't accessible yet, but according to LuigiBlood on Bluesky (as spotted by Nintendo Everything), they will be similar to what players saw in the 2013 Wii U game NES Remix. https://bsky.app/profile/luigiblood.bsky.social/post/3mnr4xhpypc2w For the many who skipped out on the Wii U, NES Remix contained quick excerpts of classic NES games, challenging play

As much progress as Nintendo's made in game preservation, some of the most important Nintendo games are still unplayable today