Jjoin us, as we take a tour through history, platforms and crossovers that chart the rise and fall of a franchise which refuses to stay down.

As of today, some of Nintendo’s finest SNES offerings will finally be available on the Switch, provided that you have a Switch Online membership. Here’s the full list.

Finally, old games for a new console. What a time to be alive.

You might be shaking your fist right now, moaning that back in your day, there was no DLC. There were no season passes, games that needed hourly patches and services being delivered piecemeal to you on a weekly basis while you paid monthly for the privilege to play those games. No sir, you’d pop a cart into a machine, switch your console on, switch it off, take the cart back out, blow the dust off of it and then you’d play a game. Simple as that. No long-ass loading screens, just simple plug in and play gameplay. That’s how games of that age were the best. Bollocks.

The Contra Anniversary Collection is on the way, and now we know exactly which games will be included in the package. There are several unique games, as well as a handful of regional variations, which change the games somewhat.

So a couple of days back now, there was a bit of a hole in a dam concerning a potential Castlevania Anniversary Collection via a rating from the Australian Government’s Department of Communications and the Arts. The rating suggested that Konami were bundling some of the older Castlevania games together and re-releasing them for newer consoles. Well, as it turns …

It is the future year 2012. Nintendo is hot to trot and it’s all thanks to the Wii console. A phenomenon that connected young and old alike, the Wii was a blazing success thanks to its ability to streamline game controls and offer something different to fans with its motion-based hardware. How would would the big N evolve from here? That question would be answered with the Wii U. Sweet Shiggy, it was awful.

Data Miners happen to have uncovered a treasure trove of games of SNES games, that look like they’ll be headed straight to Nintendo Switch Online.