Welcome to NES-flix: Testing Nintendo Online’s new 8-bit library on Switch

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On Tuesday night, at roughly 11pm ET, Nintendo finally did it: it put a bunch of classic NES games on the Switch.

(No, the December 2017 launch of Vs. Super Mario Bros. doesn't count, because that's a Switch port of an arcade game. We win on a technicality.)

After signing up for the new paid Nintendo Switch Online service, we were able to load 20 first- and third-party NES games on a Switch, all via one 54MB app full of pre-loaded ROMs. Only paying subscribers get access to this app, which makes this-a subscription-based classic-gaming service-as close as Nintendo has ever gotten to resembling Netflix. (NES-flix?)

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