Nintendo Switch Online
Wed, Feb. 9th, 2022 08:11So even though I've had access to the NES and SNES apps on Nintendo Switch Online for a while now, I hadn't played them yet. There were a few games on there I'd been meaning to try out, but I hadn't yet. But last month I finally decided on a whim to try out every single game on those apps and the N64 and Sega Genesis ones for at least a little bit each, in order of release year! Even games that I'd tried out before and didn't like that much! Even games that I didn't think I'd be interested in such as sports games, RPGs, or games I thought might be RPGs but weren't! That's what I've been doing over the past month. And as of now I've finally tried out them all!
I need some more "normal" entries in my journal, so how about a list of all the games in the apps sorted by how much time I've spent playing them on the app so far? (Not necessarily sorted by how much I like them. Some of them had long opening cutscenes or tutorials, and in sports games I opted to let the game play out until the end even when I would obviously lose by 2 to 40-something. Conversely, there's some games I enjoyed but only played for a bit for now because I was eager to get through the whole selection.)
Red: NES
Green: SNES
Yellow: N64
Blue: Sega Genesis
Bold: I've played the game before because I owned it.
**: I've played the game before, but at a friend's house or in a hotel room.
*: I've only played demos of the game before (the Masterpieces in Smash Bros., amiibo Tap: Nintendo's Greatest Bits, etc.) or played it in NES Remix.
Italics: Enough things about this game seem oddly familiar enough that it's possible I've played it at some point years ago - but in most cases I think it's still safe to assume I hadn't.
Super Mario All-Stars** - 2 hr 51 min (Of the games included, the only one I'd played the All-Stars version of prior to the app is Lost Levels. Now I've played all of them.)
Panel de Pon - 2 hr 37 min (Although I hadn't played this before, or even played its international equivalent Tetris Attack, I have played Pokémon Puzzle League for the N64.)
ToeJam & Earl - 2 hr 13 min
Super Mario 64 - 2 hr 10 min
Super Mario World - 1 hr 43 min
Mario's Super Picross - 1 hr 22 min
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island - 1 hr 20 min (I've known about this game since approximately 2002 or 2003 but never played it until now! I think that's the longest time span between my knowing about a Mario game and playing it, unless Donkey Kong Country counts.)
Baseball* - 1 hr 12 min (This is an example of a game that has a high play time only because I let the game play out until the end despite knowing I'd lose by a lot...)
Shining Force - 1 hr 4 min
Yoshi's Story - 1 hr
( the rest are cut for length )
I need some more "normal" entries in my journal, so how about a list of all the games in the apps sorted by how much time I've spent playing them on the app so far? (Not necessarily sorted by how much I like them. Some of them had long opening cutscenes or tutorials, and in sports games I opted to let the game play out until the end even when I would obviously lose by 2 to 40-something. Conversely, there's some games I enjoyed but only played for a bit for now because I was eager to get through the whole selection.)
Red: NES
Green: SNES
Yellow: N64
Blue: Sega Genesis
Bold: I've played the game before because I owned it.
**: I've played the game before, but at a friend's house or in a hotel room.
*: I've only played demos of the game before (the Masterpieces in Smash Bros., amiibo Tap: Nintendo's Greatest Bits, etc.) or played it in NES Remix.
Italics: Enough things about this game seem oddly familiar enough that it's possible I've played it at some point years ago - but in most cases I think it's still safe to assume I hadn't.
Super Mario All-Stars** - 2 hr 51 min (Of the games included, the only one I'd played the All-Stars version of prior to the app is Lost Levels. Now I've played all of them.)
Panel de Pon - 2 hr 37 min (Although I hadn't played this before, or even played its international equivalent Tetris Attack, I have played Pokémon Puzzle League for the N64.)
ToeJam & Earl - 2 hr 13 min
Super Mario 64 - 2 hr 10 min
Super Mario World - 1 hr 43 min
Mario's Super Picross - 1 hr 22 min
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island - 1 hr 20 min (I've known about this game since approximately 2002 or 2003 but never played it until now! I think that's the longest time span between my knowing about a Mario game and playing it, unless Donkey Kong Country counts.)
Baseball* - 1 hr 12 min (This is an example of a game that has a high play time only because I let the game play out until the end despite knowing I'd lose by a lot...)
Shining Force - 1 hr 4 min
Yoshi's Story - 1 hr
( the rest are cut for length )