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Three Game Boy Classics Including Mole Mania Join Nintendo Switch Online

Phantasm, a game whose premium cartridge copies sell for tens of thousands of yen, now sits in the subscription catalog, which is the most consequential part of an otherwise routine three-title drop.

Key Facts

  • Nintendo will add Mole Mania, Pinball: 66 Crocodiles' Great Parade, and Phantasm to Game Boy Nintendo Classics on October 27.
  • The three titles are available at no additional charge to Nintendo Switch Online subscribers on Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2.
  • Mole Mania is a 1996 action puzzle game produced by Shigeru Miyamoto and directed by Masayuki Kameyama, with more than 200 stages.
  • Pinball: 66 Crocodiles' Great Parade is a 1989 HAL Laboratory pinball game with four crocodile-themed tables.
  • Phantasm is a 1992 Jaleco action game ported from a 1991 arcade release in which the protagonist possesses enemies.

Reporting from 4 sources: GAME Watch (Impress), Automaton, Inside, Game Spark.

Three Game Boy Classics Including Mole Mania Join Nintendo Switch Online

Nintendo is adding three Game Boy titles to the Game Boy Nintendo Classics line for Nintendo Switch Online subscribers on October 27: Mole Mania, Pinball: 66 Crocodiles' Great Parade, and Phantasm. All three are available at no extra charge to subscribers, playable on Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2. Mole Mania is the 1996 action puzzle game produced by Shigeru Miyamoto, directed by Masayuki Kameyama, and developed by Nintendo's Entertainment Analysis & Development Division with Pax Softnica; players guide a mole through more than 200 stages, and the original cartridge included a two-player VS Mode. Pinball: 66 Crocodiles' Great Parade is HAL Laboratory's 1989 pinball game with four crocodile-themed tables. Phantasm is Jaleco's 1992 side-scrolling action game, ported from a 1991 arcade release, in which a murdered protagonist possesses enemies to rescue his girlfriend.

The three titles arrive in a single drop, and the spread is wide: a Miyamoto-produced puzzle game, a HAL Laboratory pinball table, and a Jaleco action game from the arcade era. Mole Mania's 1996 release was handled by Nintendo's Entertainment Analysis & Development Division with Pax Softnica, and its more than 200 stages ran alongside a two-player VS Mode on the original cartridge linked by Game Link Cable. The 3DS Virtual Console version released on November 7, 2012 did not allow that mode, and the released footage for this version does not settle whether versus play returns. Pinball: 66 Crocodiles' Great Parade came from HAL Laboratory on October 18, 1989, with four tables and a crocodile table at the bottom where a fall counts as a miss. Phantasm was released by Jaleco on November 6, 1992, and the Game Boy port reworked the 1991 arcade original. The possession mechanic lets the player take over gangsters, dragons, and robots, with some characters possessable only in specific scenes. Pinball and Phantasm are the titles the catalog has not carried recently, and the sources treat the lineup as a distinctive triple bill rather than a routine update.

  • Mole Mania: 1996 action puzzle game produced by Shigeru Miyamoto, with more than 200 stages
  • Pinball: 66 Crocodiles' Great Parade: HAL Laboratory pinball game from 1989 with four crocodile-themed tables
  • Phantasm: Jaleco's 1992 action game in which the player possesses enemies

Synthesized by Yomimono from the 4 cited sources below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.

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