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Nintendo is adding a trio ofMariospinoff games to its Nintendo Switch Online subscription service to celebrate Mario Day, adding two sports games and a puzzle game. 2024’s celebration of the iconic Nintendo mascot brought plenty of news about the future of the franchise, with multiple major announcements during the livestream. Nintendo would reveal theproduction of a secondSuper Mario Bros. Movie, alongside confirming the release dates for thePaper Mario: The Thousand Year DoorandLuigi’s Mansion 2remakes. Now, multipleMariogames are set to come to the Switch.
Nintendo’s premium online subscription offers players access to plenty of classicMariogames across several platforms. Players can access each of the original NESSuper Mario Bros. games through the base subscription, as well asSuper Mario World,Yoshi’s Island, and several spinoffs. The Expansion Pass for the service also offers access to beloved games likeSuper Mario 64,Paper Mario, and the first threeMario Partygames. Now, three moreMariospinoffs are headed to the subscription service as part of this year’s Mario Day celebrations.
During a Mario Day broadcast filled with announcements, Nintendo revealed threeMariospinoffs will be coming to Nintendo Switch Online later this week.Nintendo Switch Online’s Game Boy lineupis set to add the Game Boy port ofDr. Mario,alongside a pair of sports games in the Game Boy Color versions ofMario GolfandMario Tennis. All three games will be available through Nintendo Switch Online’s base subscription starting on March 12
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Nintendo Switch Online Adding Three Game Boy Mario Games
The trio ofMariogames being added to Nintendo Switch Online came as part of a brief broadcast filled with major news for the franchise’s future. The highly-anticipatedPaper Mario: The Thousand Year Doorremake finally saw its release date confirmed by Nintendo, debuting on May 23.Luigi’s Mansion 2also confirmed the release date for its remake, launching a month later on June 27.Mariois set to receive another spinoff in the near future as well, withPrincess Peach: Showtimedebuting later this monthfocused around the titular princess.
The new announcements for theMariofranchise follow just a few months after the most recent main-series release for the beloved mascot.Super Mario Bros. Wonderlaunched in NovemberasSuper Mario Bros' first new 2D platformer in over a decade, since the release of 2012’sNew Super Mario Bros. U.Wondersaw widespread acclaim from both fans and critics and even received a nomination for Game of the Year at the 2023 Game Awards. The threeMariospinoffs will bring even more of the iconic character’s expansive library to the Switch.
Super Mario
Super Mario is one of the biggest names in gaming. The first game in the franchise was 1985’s Super Mario Bros., a game that is credited with helping the gaming industry recover from its two-year crash that began in 1983.The Super Mario series still has an important place in gaming today, largely thanks to Nintendo’s ability to continuously innovate the platform games.
