{"id":518825,"date":"2026-03-04T20:43:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T20:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/518825\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T20:43:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T20:43:13","slug":"nintendo-expands-switch-onlines-virtual-boy-and-gba-library-with-three-more-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/518825\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Expands Switch Online&#8217;s Virtual Boy And GBA Library With Three More Titles"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the 10th March 2026 (aka Mario Day), Nintendo has announced it will be expanding the Switch Online + Expansion Pack service for the Switch and Switch 2.<\/p>\n<p>These three titles arriving on Mario Day include two Virtual Boy games and one Game Boy Advance title, with all of these titles requiring users to have access to the Expansion Pack tier. For the Virtual Boy, we&#8217;ve got Mario&#8217;s tennis outing, and Clash draws on the original <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/arcade\/mario_bros\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mario Bros.<\/a> title. As for GBA, Nintendo has added Mario and DK&#8217;s puzzle-platformer.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s every title included in this latest &#8216;Nintendo Classics&#8217; update:<\/p>\n<p>Virtual Boy<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Virtual Boy Switch\" class=\"scanlines\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d56bf1639e70e\/virtual-boy-switch.large.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/virtual-boy-switch.445x250.jpg\" width=\"445\" height=\"250\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Virtual Boy Switch\"\/><\/a><a title=\"Virtual Boy Switch\" class=\"scanlines scanlines\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/ef9f29b9dfa1a\/virtual-boy-switch.large.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1772656991_504_virtual-boy-switch.445x250.jpg\" width=\"445\" height=\"250\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Virtual Boy Switch\"\/><\/a> Images: Nintendo<br \/>\nGame Boy Advance<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"GBA Switch\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/54b1a757f64ef\/gba-switch.large.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/gba-switch.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"GBA Switch\"\/><\/a> Image: Nintendo<\/p>\n<p>Japan has received the same three titles in this week&#8217;s update. Once again, you&#8217;ll need to have access to the Switch Online + Expansion Pack subscription tier to play them. You can find out what other games are available on this service in our full guide here on Nintendo Life.<\/p>\n<p>\tRelated Articles<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of these latest games for the Nintendo Classics service? Let us know in the comments.<\/p>\n<p>\tRelated Games<\/p>\n<p>\tSee Also<\/p>\n<p>About Liam Doolan<\/p>\n<p class=\"avatar\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1757781494_155_avatar.jpg\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Liam Doolan\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Liam is a news writer and reviewer on Nintendo Life. He&#8217;s been writing about games for more than 15 years and is a lifelong fan of many iconic video game characters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ahead of the 10th March 2026 (aka Mario Day), Nintendo has announced it will be expanding the Switch&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,63,234025,259109,68736,127,34309,105,4126,95716],"class_list":["post-518825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-gba","tag-mario-day","tag-nintendo-switch","tag-nintendo-switch-2","tag-nintendo-switch-online","tag-technology","tag-updates","tag-virtual-boy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}