Nintendo Switch Online

[matt1993]

So 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
Wario's Woods* - 58 min
Magical Drop II - 57 min
Banjo-Kazooie - 55 min (One of my biggest motivations for trying this app out was finally playing this!)
Kirby Super Star* - 54 min
Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!** - 53 min
Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest - 52 min
Dr. Mario 64 - 52 min
Kirby's Dream Course* - 51 min
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - 48 min
Pop'n TwinBee - 48 min
Operation: Win Back - 48 min (Even with the number being skewed by time spent watching the intro [which I did multiple times because I missed a couple parts] and getting stuck for a long time in the tutorial, I'm surprised the play time is THIS high...)
Star Fox 64 - 45 min
Paper Mario - 44 min
Prehistorik Man - 43 min
NES Open Tournament Golf* - 39 min
Super Mario Bros. 3 - 38 min
Sin & Punishment - 38 min
The Ignition Factor - 37 min
Breath of Fire II - 36 min
The Peace Keepers - 36 min
Joe & Mac 2: Lost in the Tropics - 36 min
Phantasy Star IV - 35 min
Super Puyo Puyo 2 - 32 min
Breath of Fire - 31 min
Ristar - 30 min
Stunt Race FX - 30 min
Operation Logic Bomb - 30 min
Kirby's Dream Land 3* - 29 min
Demon's Crest - 29 min
Super Mario Bros. 2 - 29 min
River City Ransom - 27 min
Streets of Rage 2 - 27 min
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 - 27 min (My 2008-2010 self would hate me for this. I finally played a Sonic game that isn't Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games. :P )
Dynamite Headdy - 27 min
Super Mario Kart* - 26 min
Brawl Brothers - 25 min
Mario Kart 64 - 25 min
Shadow of the Ninja - 25 min
Castlevania: Bloodlines - 24 min (I finally played a Castlevania game like I wanted to do three years ago! Not one of the ones I wanted to start with, but at least I finally played one and know for a fact I like the series!)
Claymates - 24 min
Super Metroid* - 24 min
Doomsday Warrior - 23 min
Mario Tennis - 23 min
Tecmo Bowl - 23 min
Sword of Vermilion - 22 min
Wild Guns - 22 min
Super Soccer - 21 min
Ecco the Dolphin - 21 min
Star Fox 2 - 20 min
Kirby's Adventure - 20 min
Blaster Master - 19 min
Ka-Blooey - 18 min (The biggest example of the play time being skewed by time spent reading the instructions. It takes so long for the instructions to scroll on the main menu and it still wasn't enough for me to figure out how to get very far in this game!)
Contra: Hard Corps - 18 min
Gunstar Heroes - 18 min
Soccer - 18 min (One of the few sports games on here that I seem to be decent at. Surprisingly that's not true of Super Soccer though...)
Super Dodge Ball - 17 min
Star Fox - 17 min
Golden Axe - 16 min
Donkey Kong Country - 16 min
StarTropics - 16 min
Volleyball - 15 min
Tennis* - 15 min
Super Mario Bros. - 15 min
Ninja Gaiden - 14 min
Ice Hockey* - 14 min
Super Punch-Out!! - 14 min
Tuff E Nuff - 14 min
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past - 13 min
Natsume Championship Wrestling - 13 min
F-Zero* - 13 min
Super E.D.F. Earth Defense Force - 13 min
Smash Tennis - 13 min
Vice: Project Doom - 13 min
Zelda II: The Adventure of Link* - 12 min
Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels - 11 min
Super Valis IV - 11 min
Joe & Mac - 10 min
Shinobi III: Return of the Ninja Master - 10 min
M.U.S.H.A. - 10 min
Wrecking Crew* - 10 min
Fire 'n Ice - 10 min
Excitebike* - 10 min
The Legend of Zelda* - 10 min
Nightshade - 9 min
Super Tennis - 9 min
Psycho Dream - 9 min
Super Ghouls'n Ghosts - 9 min
Double Dragon II: The Revenge - 8 min
Kid Icarus - 8 min
Double Dragon - 8 min
Super Baseball Simulator 1.000 - 7 min
Pilotwings* - 7 min
Spanky's Quest - 7 min
Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine - 7 min
Journey to Silius - 7 min
VS. Excitebike - 7 min
Metroid - 7 min
Adventures of Lolo - 7 min
The Immortal - 6 min
Donkey Kong - 6 min
Yoshi* - 6 min
Crystalis - 6 min
Thunder Force II - 6 min
Jelly Boy - 5 min
Strider - 5 min
TwinBee - 5 min
Clu Clu Land* - 5 min
Punch-Out!!* - 5 min
Dr. Mario - 5 min
Ghosts'n Goblins - 5 min
Kung-Fu Heroes - 5 min
Solomon's Key - 5 min
Mighty Bomb Jack - 5 min
Balloon Fight* - 5 min
Pro Wrestling - 5 min
S.C.A.T.: Special Cybernetic Attack Team - 4 min
Ice Climber* - 4 min
Ninja JaJaMaru-kun - 4 min
Gradius - 3 min
Star Soldier - 3 min
Donkey Kong Jr.* - 3 min
Donkey Kong 3* - 3 min
Eliminator Boat Duel - 2 min
City Connection - 2 min
Rygar - 2 min
Mario Bros.* - 2 min (I'm counting this as "only played in NES Remix or demos" because it's the NES version, not the GBA version. That one I own.)
Altered Beast - 2 min (Now I've finally heard the "WELCOME TO YOUR DOOM!" quote from Strong Bad's Website in context!)