Nintendo Switch Online Gets Games From Harvest Moon, Kirby, & Blaster Master

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Nintendo has updated their Nintendo Switch Online offerings for Famicom, Game Boy, and Super Nintendo. Note that these are all on platforms on the basic tier, so everyone subscribed gets them added to their respective apps.

Let’s start by looking at the little known Mystery Tower. Some older fans may be confused why they’ve never heard of this game. Actually, this is Nintendo’s English localization of Babel no Tou, AKA, Tower of Babel.

Mystery Tower is one of those odd Famicom games that never left Japan, but Nintendo worked with Namco to release it in English on their platforms. This game originally released on the Wii U Virtual Console.

And this game is a one screen classic puzzler, taking some inspiration from the sokoban genre, and some from Lode Runner.

You play a funny little Namco OC called Indy Borgnine, trying to get to the top of the Tower of Babel, where he is actually in. He can move L-shaped blocks and climb them like staircases, and he can also climb vines.

While it’s nowhere near as thrilling as Catherine, if you do like those small single screen puzzle games, this one holds up as a nice little diversion.

On the Game Boy app we get Blaster Master: Enemy Below and Kirby Tilt N’Tumble, both on the Game Boy Color.

Blaster Master: Enemy Below is the fourth game in the Blaster Master series, and stands as something of a remake, or perhaps more fittingly, remix, of the NES original. The gameplay is mostly design, with overworld levels using the tank Sophia, and underground levels where you move on foot as Jason. Blaster Master: Enemy Below adds upgrades you have to find, making backtracking more worthwhile. While all these games would eventually pale in comparison to Blaster Master Zero, this is still a fun