The Switch is getting some great F-Zero games next week

Roughly every month, Nintendo releases a new retro game through its Nintendo Switch Online (NSO) service. There’s no telling in advance what games are coming, and often we don’t hear about them until they’re live, but every now and then Nintendo lets us know in advance. The next batch of games will be big too, with two incredible F-Zero games coming next week.

Nintendo has announced that two GBA F-Zero games will be available next week on October 11, 2024 on Game Boy Advance – Nintendo Switch Online for NSO + Expansion Pack subscribers. The first is F-Zero Climax and the second is F-Zero GP Legend, both fantastic games.

F-Zero Climax in particular is a pretty special case, as it was never released outside of Japan. The game was released in Japan in October 2004, 20 years ago at this point, making it the last game in the series before F-Zero 99, but for some reason was never localized for Western markets.

The game will be available to subscribers of Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack, the more expensive tier of the service that also includes Nintendo 64 and Sega Genesis games, as well as DLC for Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Splatoon 2. It also includes all the benefits of the lower tier, simply called Nintendo Switch Online, which offers online gaming and retro gaming from the NES, SNES and Game Boy.

The news comes as the gaming world awaits the announcement of the Nintendo Switch 2, as most are calling it. Nintendo announced earlier this year that this was planned announce a Switch successor before April 1, 2025which sends the whole world into a frenzy with anticipation.

Last month, however, a series of Rumor has it that Switch 2 is leaking added fuel to the fire when a device that looked very similar to a larger Nintendo Switch appeared on social media sites. So far, all of these alleged leaks are unconfirmed.