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Tuesday (2018-09-18) [24 games]

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Balloon Fight



Balloon Fight is an arcade-style platform action game for 1-2 players that is similar to Joust. Players take to the sky and try to pop their foes' balloons before their own get popped.

Platform
Nintendo Switch  

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Baseball



A Nintendo recreation of the popular ball and cudgel sport famous in the Americas and Japan. Originally released as a part of the Nintendo Sports Series for NES, later ported as an early title for the Game Boy.

Platform
Nintendo Switch  

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Donkey Kong



Control Jumpman (later known as Mario) and save his girlfriend, Pauline, from the evil barrel-tossing gorilla known as Donkey Kong. Designed by Shigeru Miyamoto, this was the game that set the template for the platformer genre.

Platform
Nintendo Switch  

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Double Dragon



A game credited, in part, with the popularity of the brawler genre in the arcade craze of the 1980s and 1990s.

Platform
Nintendo Switch  

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Dr. Mario



A puzzle game that released in the midst of the Tetris craze, Dr. Mario put its own spin on the falling-blocks concept. It was one of the few Tetris derivatives of the time that was a hit in its own right.

Platform
Nintendo Switch  

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Excitebike



Excitebike is a 1985 motocross racing game for the NES. Race around premade tracks and even create custom ones!

Platform
Nintendo Switch  

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Ghosts 'N Goblins



Ghosts 'N Goblins is the first game in the Ghosts 'N Goblins series. It is widely recognized as being one of the hardest games of all time.

Platform
Nintendo Switch  

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Gradius



A side scrolling arcade shoot 'em up and the first in Konami's famous series. The game became famous for its extreme difficulty and varied power-ups.

Platform
Nintendo Switch  

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Ice Climber



In Ice Climber the player controls a hammer wielding Eskimo that needs to climb 32 ice-covered mountains in order to recover a stolen vegetable from a giant condor.

Platform
Nintendo Switch  

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Ice Hockey



A one to two player ice hockey game in which players can choose between six different countries to play as. In addition, players can choose three different classes of characters, three period lengths, plus the speed of the game. Players control 5 players on their team including the goalie.

Platform
Nintendo Switch  

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Labyrinth of Refrain: Coven of Dusk



A Nippon Ichi dungeon crawler RPG with artwork from Takehito Harada, the artist of the Disgaea series.

Platform
Nintendo Switch  

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Mario Bros.



Nintendo's classic arcade hit. Players attempt to eliminate enemies while avoiding fireballs and collecting coins.

Platform
Nintendo Switch  

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Pro Wrestling



Nintendo's Pro Wrestling assembles a cast of wild characters and throws them into the squared circle for combat.

Platform
Nintendo Switch  

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River City Ransom



Scrolling brawler with RPG attributes. Fight through street gangs as Alex and Ryan in search of Ryan's kidnapped girlfriend. This game was basically an early proto-GTA sandbox brawler, where the player can explore the city, beat up or steal from random people, and shop around.

Platform
Nintendo Switch  

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Scribblenauts Mega Pack



Scribblenauts MegaPack combines two classic Scribblenauts titles together and adds new levels, items, characters, and more.

Platform
Nintendo Switch  

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Soccer



Soccer is the seminal soccer game for the NES, it is wholly about soccer.

Platform
Nintendo Switch  

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Super Mario Bros.



Focusing on a humble plumber and his brother setting out to rescue a Princess who has been kidnapped by a vile lizard king, Super Mario Bros. is a platformer created by Shigeru Miyamoto, published by Nintendo, and is one of the best-selling video games of all time.

Platform
Nintendo Switch  

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Super Mario Bros. 3



Super Mario Bros. 3 sends Mario on a whole new adventure across diverse worlds and sporting strange new suits and abilities.

Platform
Nintendo Switch  

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Sword of the Guardian



Sword of the Guardian is a hardcore and old-school style beat'em up game. It's features exhilarating game play experience by featuring command-based combo attacks (such as “↓ → + attack” and “↓ ↑ + attack”) customized for each character. Support up to 3 players coop.

Platform
Nintendo Switch  

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Tecmo Bowl



Tecmo Bowl was one of the most popular American football sims, and perhaps the most popular, back in the 1980s. Welcome to the game that started it all for Tecmo Inc. Welcome to Tecmo Bowl.

Platform
Nintendo Switch  

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Tennis



A Nintendo Entertainment System game developed and published by Nintendo as part of their series of sports games. It can be played in singles or doubles.

Platform
Nintendo Switch  

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The Legend of Zelda



A young boy explores a huge overworld filled with enemies and dungeons to find and rescue Princess Zelda from the evil Ganon.

Platform
Nintendo Switch  

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Undertale



A quirky role-playing game that takes place in a secret subterranean world of monsters and gives players the choice to either kill or spare their enemies.

Platform
Nintendo Switch  

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Yoshi



Play as Mario or Luigi to help free Yoshi in this puzzle game.

Platform
Nintendo Switch  

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Wednesday (2018-09-19) [1 games]

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Siegecraft Commander



A strategy game.

Platform
Nintendo Switch  

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Thursday (2018-09-20) [7 games]

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A Case of Distrust



A 2D adventure game set in 1924 San Francisco.

Platform
Nintendo Switch  

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CrossCode



CrossCode is a retro-themed 2D action RPG developed by Radical Fish Games.

Platform
PC  

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Hover



Hover is a first and third person open world parkour game inspired by the likes of Jet Set Radio, Mirror's Edge, and the Tony Hawk series.

Platform
Nintendo Switch  

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Light Fingers



Light Fingers is a board game played by rogues and thieves.

Platform
Nintendo Switch  

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Reigns: Kings & Queens



A Switch game containing both Reigns and Reigns: Her Majesty. Reigns: Kings & Queens adds local co-op play.

Platform
Nintendo Switch  

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Retimed



Retimed

Platform
Nintendo Switch  

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The Gardens Between



The Gardens Between is an adventure puzzle game from The Voxel Agents about two best friends Arina and Frendt and their memories from childhood.

Platform
Nintendo Switch  

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Friday (2018-09-21) [4 games]

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Broken Sword: The Serpent's Curse



George and Nico return for the fifth game in Charles Cecil's Broken Sword franchise. They embark on an all new adventure that involves an investigation into an armed raid on a Paris gallery. Partially funded by Kickstarter.

Platform
Nintendo Switch  

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My Brother Rabbit



My Brother Rabbit is a beautifully drawn exploration adventure and puzzle game set in a surreal world that mixes reality with a child’s imagination.

Platform
Nintendo Switch  

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Spyro Reignited Trilogy



A compilation of high-definition remakes of the first three Spyro the Dragon games.

Platforms
PlayStation 4   Xbox One  

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Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Torna - The Golden Country



A standalone release of the Torna: The Golden Country DLC for Xenoblade 2 that tells the story of the war that took place 500 years before the main game.

Platform
Nintendo Switch  

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