If there is one thing I’m going to miss when the Wii U and 3DS eShops finally close their doors for good, it’s being able to actually buy the old games I remember from my childhood from the Virtual Console. Nintendo has the richest back catalog of any developer in the industry today and it’s just a shame that going forward, the only way we might be able to experience some of these titles is with Nintendo Switch Online. Don’t get me wrong. I like the service, and I think the selection of NES and SNES titles is pretty solid. But considering how much of Nintendo’s history is tied to portable devices that are currently not available on the subscription service, fans are missing out on a part of the company’s and the industry’s legacy.
That might be changing, though. Recently, reports surfaced online that Nintendo’s emulator for the Game Boy Advance had leaked with a handful of notable titles leaking alongside it. Whether or not this is legit remains to be seen, but if this is what’s next for the Nintendo Switch Online service, consider me excited (certainly a lot more excited than I am for those N64 games it’s slowly adding to the Expansion Pass tier). I wanted to share my excitement with the rest of the writers here at Destructoid, so I asked them to name the GBA title they’d most like to see appear on NSO should this leak prove legit.
The number one GBA game I’d love to play on my Nintendo Switch will always be Ninja Five-O. Developed by Hudson Soft and published by Konami, the action platformer flew way under the radar in 2003, releasing right around the same time as Golden Sun: The Lost Age and Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow. Reviews were great but sales were dismal. The game faded from the market as quietly as it came in,
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