The Nintendo Switch Online basic video games catalog has in the present day been up to date with three extra titles, together with arcade favourite Pac-Man.
Nintendo Switch Online subscribers can entry the three new (or fairly, outdated) titles through the Nintendo Classics NES app now, and play Pac-Man, Mendel Palace and The Tower of Druaga.
Pac-Man wants little introduction, as that is the basic expertise from the yellow hero’s arcade days. Chomp pellets, keep away from ghosts, and gobble up Energy Pellets to show the tide. Must you danger getting all of the fruit too? Sure, sure, you must.
Put together to be a-maze-d! #NintendoSwitchOnline members can now get pleasure from three extra basic #NES video games:
👻 PAC-MAN
⭐ Mendel Palace
🛡️ THE TOWER OF DRUAGA pic.twitter.com/TId6fEaV5W— Nintendo UK (@NintendoUK) April 9, 2026
Mendel Palace, in the meantime, is a puzzle recreation initially launched in 1989 by a small staff referred to as Game Freak — sure, the identical developer that might later go on to make Pokémon, a franchise you are extra prone to have heard of. Mendel Palace is an unsurprisingly less complicated affair, which asks you to flip panels to keep at bay enemies and activate particular results.
Final however not least is The Tower of Druaga, the Namco motion RPG initially launched in arcades all the way in which again in 1984. Amusingly, the sport has been described as a “fantasy Pac-Man”, with knights, wizards and locked doorways organized in considerably similar-looking mazes. Are you able to attain the tower’s prime?
Something take your fancy? If not, IGN has a full checklist of each different recreation already obtainable through the Nintendo Switch Online basic recreation catalog, throughout each platform from Game Boy to GameCube.
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