Three more Mario Game Boy titles are coming to Switch Online next week

10.03.2024 - 15:49 / videogameschronicle.com / Chris Scullion

Three more Mario titles are set to arrive on Nintendo Switch Online’s Game Boy library next week.

Announced by Nintendo as part of its Mario Day announcements, the following games are being added to the service on Tuesday, March 12:

The Game Boy version of Dr Mario is the first edition of the game, released on the Game Boy and NES at the same time.

Players have to help Dr Mario kill all the viruses in his jar by dropping coloured pills onto them, matching colours to make them disappear.

Given the Game Boy’s lack of colour display, the pills are instead black, white and grey.

Mario Golf was released in 1999, a few months after the Nintendo 64 game of the same name, and was the first handheld Mario Golf game developed by Camelot Software Planning.

The GBC version features a unique Story mode, which is an RPG-lite adventure where you choose one of four other humans – Kid, Sherry, Joe or Azalea – and take them through a series of tournaments, levelling up their stats over time.

Mario Tennis was released in 2001 and offered a similar feature set to Mario Golf. As with Mario Golf, the GBC version focuses more on gameplay than power-ups, meaning it’s less over-the-top than subsequent Mario sports games would be.

It too has a Story mode here, Mario Tour, where you choose between youngsters Alex and Nina and help them go up the ranks at the Royal Academy.

Game Boy and Game Boy Color games are available as part of the standard Switch Online subscription, which costs £3.49/€3.99/$3.99 for a one-month membership, £6.99/€7.99/$7.99 for a three-month membership, and £17.99/€19.99/$19.99 for a 12-month membership.