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So, sit back and enjoy the best SNES games available on Nintendo Switch Online...
Doomsday Warrior is largely junk, with a few redeeming elements. The character roster is pretty dumb, but it is interesting to play as characters that would probably be considered villains in other games. There aren’t many backgrounds, but some of them are pretty cool, like stages consisting of floating coloured tiles, or a stage on a rooftop that seems tilted on its side, seeming to defy gravity. Overall, it’s about what you’d expect from Telenet; some neat ideas, tossed into a game that passes the bare minimum level of playability, all to exploit a hungry market.
A surprisingly solid fighter in the Street Fighter II Tuff E Nuff not Street Fighter II. Then again, perhaps its biggest issue is an awful western name (it's known as Dead Dance in Japan), or its ghastly North American box art . We think — we think — this game might have been made in the early '90s.
A fun puzzler that sees you manually setting off bombs across an isometric grid without getting caught in the inevitable blast(s). Clearing the bombfield (well, they're not mines, are they?) is easier said than done as you're up against not only various environmental complications, but also a timer.
If the name Bombuzal has you bamboozled, that might be because it was renamed Ka-Blooey in North America.
A Japan-only Super Famicom sequel to Technos' Super Dodge Ball , Kunio-kun shows off his multi-discipline skills yet again in another sports spin-off. It's a good time, too, so definitely worth checking out via NSO if you've never had the pleasure of dodging Kunio and the gang's balls.
Oof. That's, er... Moving on.
Publisher: Telenet Japan
Available On: Nintendo Switch Online An action platformer and last of the Valis series to release in the West, Super Valis IV
Psycho Dream's stature in the world of retro gaming is perhaps artificially enhanced by the fact that we almost got it in the west back in the day, under the name Dream Probe . As such, it's one of those obscure Japanese games which has cult standing because western magazines actually reviewed it ahead of its cancellation. However, unlike titles such as Dracula X: Rondo of Blood DoReMi Fantasy: Milon's DokiDoki Adventure quite the classic that some would have you believe. It's still worth a play for purely historical reasons (and, as it's on Nintendo Switch Online, it's not like it will cost you extra to experience it), but just go in with expectations low; you might then enjoy its quirkiness.
In multiplayer, Natsume Championship Wrestling fast .
Released for arcades before making its way to the SNES in 1994, Data East's Fighter's History shared many similarities with Capcom's most treasured fighting game at the time: Street Fighter II . So much so, in fact, that Capcom tried to take legal action against Data East for what it believed to be copyright infringement.
In the end, it was determined that Fighter's History contained elements of "scène à faire", which basically means that all the elements Capcom took issue with simply had to be in the game for it to exist. Still, many gamers have since come to appreciate Fighter's History, particularly for its combo system and weak point mechanics.
Despite having all the right ingredients, Jaleco's Brawl Brothers
Based around the epic Paris-Dakar rally, the 1991 Super Famicom port of Jaleco's Big Run never came to the West, so it's great to see it made widely available via Nintendo Switch Online. It's a fairly basic rally racer, but driving a Porche at unsafe speeds through Africa to a banging soundtrack isn't a bad time at all.
Known as Super Ultra Baseball in Japan, this is a sequel to a NES game of the same name (minus the 'Super', of course). Super Baseball Simulator 1.000 simulates that most engaging of pastimes enjoyed on both sides of the Pacific, although with features such as the 'Phantom Ball' which makes the ball vanish into thin air, this perhaps isn't the razor serious sim you might expect from the name. Apparently, it's a good one, though — we can't say we got around to playing this one back in the day, although we're looking to rectify that pronto. Watch this base.
A port of Human's Super Formation Soccer , Super Soccer
Published by Ocean Software — the company with the Best Logo Ever™ — Jelly Boy is a platformer with a gelatinous protagonist who can transform into a variety of shapes, sized and materials. Using said skills, you're charged with getting little JB out of the candy factory he's trapped in.
A lesser-known title in North America thanks to the fact is only saw release in Europe (and relatively late into the Super Nintendo's life, too), Jelly Boy is worth investigating if you're a sucker for 16-bit platformers.
Publisher: Data East
Release Date: Dec 1993 (USA ) /
1994 (UK/EU ) Available On: Nintendo Switch Online A port of Data East's arcade pool sim first released in 1986, Side Pocket came to all the consoles of the day and offers up a decent representation of the sport in video game form. The action is viewed from above with floating hands and a line of dots indicating the trajectory of the cue ball. Shot speed and spin are controlled in a similar way to your standard golf game, relying on a well-timed button press on a power slider.
With the 16-bit port getting a suitably slinky soundtrack and realistic-ish images of glamourous ladies to greet you between stages, all that was missing was the low-hanging cigarette smog floating in the lamplight to complete the pool hustler vibe.
