Nintendo Switch Online adds Kirby’s Avalanche, Fighter’s History, and Daiva Story 6

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Nintendo has added a curious mix of three retro releases to its Nintendo Switch Online service — Now available to download to subscribers worldwide, the trifecta of titles includes Kirby's Avalanche and Fighter's History for SNES, and obscurity Daiva Story 6: Imperial of Nirsartia for the NES.

Released in 1995 at the height of the block-dropping renaissance, Kirby's Avalanche, (also known as Kirby's Ghost Trap), is a reskinned edition of the Japanese classic Super Puyo Puyo, offered a fresh coat of Kirby-based repaint in order to make it a little more endearing for the western market. In typical Puyo Puyo fashion, players must connect together descending drops of colored blobs, matching up palettes in order to create bonus-scoring combos. For many westerners, this was their intro to the classic puzzle series.

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Fighter's History was released to arcades in 1993, (with the SNES port appearing in 1994), and is Data East's effort into the then-burgeoning one-on-one fighting game genre. While Fighter's History is perhaps the most shameless of the Street Fighter clones, it's a surprisingly neat series, boasting some fun characters and a charismatic taste for the bizarre. The SNES would receive a port fo the second sequel Fighter's History: Mizoguchi Kiki Ippatsu!! in 1995.

Released for the NES in 1986, Daiva Story 6: Imperial of Nirsartia is an action strategy adventure and, as the name suggests, the sixth mainline entry in the super niche Daiva Story franchise. The obscure title combines war-sim-like strategy with action-based platforming sections, as players attempt to colonize various planets while defending their home territory from invading forces. It's a particularly interesting choice for the Nintendo Switch Online archive, and thus a very welcome one.

Kirby's Avalanche, Fighter's History, and Daiva Story 6: Imperial of Nirsartia are now available to download for all Nintendo Switch Online subscribers.

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