Nintendo Switch Online’s NES and Game Boy libraries got a new pair of games each today, the former for the first time in nearly a year. Battletoads and Ninja Gaiden II: The Dark Sword of Chaos are now available for the NES library, while the Game Boy collection gets Bionic Commando and Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters

Battletoads, first released in 1991, is both beloved and infamous as a classic and challenging co-op brawler. Developed by Rare, it’s now technically owned by Xbox as well. Ninja Gaiden II: The Dragon Sword arrived in 1990 as the second entry of the NES trilogy of Ninja Gaiden games. You may be surprised to know that it’s a very hard game.

The Game Boy version of Bionic Commando was released in 1992 as a largely faithful port of the NES original. Its arrival on Nintendo Switch Online marks its first-ever re-release. 1991’s Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters is the Game Boy exclusive sequel to Kid Icarus, and would be the last entry in the series until 2012’s Kid Icarus: Uprising.

If you’ve lost track of what’s available on the Nintendo Switch Online’s various classic games libraries, be sure to check out our complete database of every game on the service.

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