Nintendo Switch Online Game Boy App Adds Retro Easter Egg

A caller update for the Nintendo Switch Online Game Boy app has added a caller startup Easter egg, alongside the accomplishment of respective much retro titles.

Switch Online subscribers tin present update their Game Boy app to Version 3.0.0, which adds the quality to presumption the archetypal footwear surface of your preferred Game Boy rubric erstwhile loading up a game.

If you've acceptable your app to play the crippled arsenic if connected Game Boy, past it's the OG Game Boy startup surface that you'll see. If you've selected Game Boy Pocket, past you'll spot that instead. Finally, if you're playing with your app acceptable to Game Boy Color mode, you'll get that startup surface — colors and all.

So, however to spot this Easter ovum for yourself? Well, it's arsenic casual arsenic holding the near power instrumentality connected your Switch console erstwhile loading the app. Sound familiar? Yes, this is the aforesaid Easter ovum and unlock mechanics that Nintendo antecedently added to the Switch Online's Game Boy Advance app.

(And yes, Switch 2 owners, if you privation to presumption each the GameCube startup noises, you tin besides unlock those too.)

Finally, today's latest regular Switch Online catalogue update adds 4 much games to the work for subscribers, listed below.

• Battletoads (NES)
• Ninja Gaiden 2: The Dark Sword of Chaos (NES)
• Bionic Commando (Game Boy)
• Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters (Game Boy)

Anything instrumentality your fancy?

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