Topic: The Nintendo Switch Online Subscription Service Thread

I assume we also have all the games which are in Nintendo World Championship.

I wonder why they gave us so many nes games at once this time.

I think you just answered your question, they did it because its Nintendo World Championship time so uh...good time for NES games.

Like its Rare games and then first party games, I'm guessing they saved some so they would have more for this month.

Very happy with July's NES drops myself; tons of games with really cool histories like Urban Champion and Golf that feel right at home on the service (that I'm honestly still kind of shocked took until now to actually get added XD).

also, on the topic of NSO, some trademarks got filed the other day for DS that many people are interpreting as Nintendo getting ready to add it to the service in the future!

I didn't expect Nintendo to read my signature

@Dogorilla now you gotta play it

@Dogorilla Time for you to hold up your end of the bargain and actually play it I suppose XD

@Dogorilla thirded. Do it or walk the plank!

@Eel @Fizza @Yousef- I'll play it this evening and report back

It's rated an impressive 4/10 NL user score (the lowest of all NSO nes games) .

I was curious if Switch had any other games with the word 'math' in the title and there are 11 - classics such as Snake of Maths! Cool Education Game and Math, BFF, and Notes. Sadly none of those 11 have enough user scores to see an average so we can't easily compare their quality to Donkey Kong Jr Math.

Edit: I've been playing Donkey Kong Jr Math for the last hour. I wish this game (or NSO in general) let you do random online match-ups. The single player is literally just math with slightly funky controls and it forces you to use a particular multiplication/division table format that not everyone learned. However the multiplayer is kind of fun and more challenging and involves actual thought and gameplay. If we could do multiplayer more easily, this game would be a solid 5/10. As is, I'm trying to decide between 4 and 5. Probably 4; although the game largely achieves what it was striving for, it was not striving for much and hasn't aged wonderfully.

In terms of Rare Replay completion on NSO (the ones that are on Nintendo hardware), this is the way things look at the moment (bolded means NSO):

• Slalom
• R.C. Pro-Am - February 2024
• Cobra Triangle - July 2024
• Snake Rattle 'n' Roll - February 2024
• Solar Jetman - July 2024
• Digger T. Rock
• Battletoads
• R.C. Pro-AM II
• Killer Instinct Gold
• Blast Corps - February 2024
• Goldeneye 007 - January 2023
• Banjo-Kazooie - January 2022
• Jet Force Gemini - December 2023
• Perfect Dark - June 2024
• Banjo-Tooie
• Conker's Bad Fur Day

@FishyS Yes, we've had all the NWC games on NSO since 2019.

@Grumblevolcano Helpful list! It makes me happy seeing Rare’s classics become playable on Nintendo hardware again. Looks like they are getting close to completing the list a bit.

@FishyS I'm impressed you lasted an hour! As you say, it's just maths questions but you have to walk and climb over to the numbers/symbols you want to input, which is pretty tedious.

I was also thinking it would be more fun in multiplayer though. In single player you can just take as long as you want to get to the target number (e.g. just keep adding numbers together until you get there), but in multiplayer you'd actually have to think of quick ways to make the sum and get to the numbers you want before your opponent does. However, testing the multiplayer would require me going up to someone and saying 'Let's play Donkey Kong Jr Math', which would probably be interpreted as the first stage of a mental breakdown.

I'm intrigued by 'Math, BFF and Notes'. Seems like an odd combination of topics to make a game about.

I just glanced at the description .. pretty sure it is a 'hot for teacher' type visual novel so I doubt it actually has much to do with math 😆

I was playing DK Jr Math fake multiplayer by just trying to be fast. Sometimes the fastest way to get to a number is platforming over pits instead of using the vines and sometimes you want to multiply so high that the number overflows the maximum and gets small again. So there is definitely some strategy there. Although I doubt I will ever boot up the game again 😅

Decided on tackling Mach Rider from today's NSO batch and, even though it was a game I've been looking forward to trying out for a good long while now, I was still pleasantly surprised at how much I ended up having with it. It definitely has high barrier-of-entry in terms of its gameplay/controls and motion sickness is definitely iffy in some of the later stages but man: this is easily one of the most mechanically deep NES games I've played in a long while. The different levels of gear shifts add a lot of on-the-fly strategy to the experience and trying to conserve ammo in order to get a higher overall score is fiendishly addictive. When the majority of NES titles I've played are just kind of OK, its always really refreshing to have one as tightly-designed as Mach Rider honestly.

Oh and I also tackled Baseball whilst I was it today as it had been on my backlog for ages and yep: it sure is a baseball game for the NES alright XD

I don't personally have expansion pass but...

As a massive Starfy fan, I am absolutely freaking out right now

@FishyS was not expecting that. Classic random NSO drop moment lol

Nintendo loves the niche picks, don’t they? I think it’s a good thing because it gives forgotten IPs more exposure, like they’ve done with F Zero and now starfy