Including a less rare game, a Japan-only collectible, and a Satoru Iwata classic

No plans for the holiday weekend? An insatiable thirst for retro games? Nintendo has your back. In the early hours of July 4th, the company added no fewer than seven Nintendo Entertainment System games to the Nintendo Switch Online service, and it's as eclectic a list as you could wish for.

This far into the process of building out the NES collection on Switch Online — it's been there since the service launched in September 2018 — Nintendo naturally needs to reach into some of the more obscure corners of the 8-bit console's catalog. Indeed, it seems to lean towards this esoteric flavor with this selection of "rare and surprising side-scrolling adventures, intergalactic shoot-em-ups and challenging edutainment", in Nintendo's own words.

The seven games added include Urban Champion, a 2D street brawler from 1986; 1986's Donkey Kong Jr. Math, which mixes win-swinging with math puzzles; less 1991 Rare game Solar Jetman; and vehicular combat in the form of 1985's Mach Rider and 1989's speedboat shooter Cobra Triangle. (Ah, the days when "speedboat shooter" was a recognizable game genre.)