Two Game Boy Classics Join Nintendo Switch Online Today

Fresh from starring successful the caller Super Mario Galaxy Movie trailer, Yoshi is headed to Nintendo Switch Online today.

Mario's ridable dinosaur pal arrives via Switch Online successful the signifier of his item-matching Game Boy puzzle rubric that's simply named "Yoshi." Originally released successful 1991, the classical crippled is disposable again contiguous for Switch Online subscribers.

Also disposable contiguous is Balloon Kid, the side-scrolling platformer wherever you tin cod balloons to assistance successful your jumping and hovering. It was archetypal disposable successful 1990, immoderate 36 years ago.

If you person entree to the Japanese Nintendo Switch Online app, it's worthy noting that the summation of Balloon Kid is substituted with the accomplishment of Balloon Fight GB — a abstracted rubric with a much obscure history. Released lone successful Japan for the Game Boy Color, this rubric is simply a souped-up mentation of the archetypal NES Balloon Fight that ne'er made it crossed to the West. The crippled past aboriginal arrived connected 3DS via its Virtual Console, though again lone successful Japan.

Nintendo precocious featured Yoshi arsenic the prima of its latest Super Mario Galaxy Movie trailer, which showed Mario and Luigi befriending the dinosaur and rapidly welcoming it to their pack of heroes. Yoshi is expected to play a large relation successful the upcoming Super Mario Movie sequel pursuing a cameo quality (really, conscionable Yoshi's egg) astatine the extremity of the anterior film.

While The Super Mario Galaxy Movie launches successful theaters connected April 1, Yoshi's retro quality connected Game Boy is disposable to play again via Switch and Switch 2 now.

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