While Nintendo has celebrated several big anniversaries lately, such as The Legend of Zelda and Mario, Donkey Kong's anniversary effectively went unmentioned. Still, it would be fun to see these games return to Nintendo's tent as part of the wider Nintendo Switch Online N64 library.It’s not fair, nor fun to write that Donkey Kong is fading, but it’s clear that it’s just that. Rare Replay offers a collection with quality-of-life updates, and there are the occassional revivals or remakes like Conker: Live & Reloaded. Hopefully it or other Rare-developed games appear via Switch Online in the future, but even if they do not there are still ways to play many of them through Xbox channels. That being said, the game's infamy is reason to believe it will never be touched by Nintendo again.Įven so it is a possibility given Nintendo published Conker's Bad Fur Day in the first place. Conker's celebrated its 20th anniversary this year, and it has become a cult-classic 3D platformer thanks to its raunchy, irreverent, and deeply British sense of humor. RELATED: Banjo-Kazooie Offers Hope That Other Xbox-Owned Nintendo 64 Games Could Come to Switch Online Killer Instinct Gold (1996)Ĭonker's Bad Fur Day is perhaps the game many fans of Rare would be most excited to see release through Nintendo Switch Online. With the exception of Banjo-Kazooie, there are 10 Rare N64 titles ripe for the Switch Online library. However, before that Rare was largely known for its Nintendo games. Microsoft purchased Rare in 2002, making it one of many first-party developers under the Xbox Game Studios umbrella.

One of the most exciting things about Banjo-Kazooie coming to Nintendo Switch Online is it means Microsoft has given its blessing to include titles published by its now-subsidiary. Among the N64 games coming to Switch some time after the Expansion Pack launches in late October is Rare's classic 1998 3D platformer Banjo-Kazooie. The company has yet to announce how much this new option will cost, but the list of games being added from each console should be more than enough of a selling point for some. Nintendo is growing its Switch Online service by offering an 'Expansion Pack' that includes Nintendo 64 and Sega Genesis games.

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