

Of course original NES games have been available in a digital capacity on various emulators for years now, but Nintendo has put some real effort behind them in recent years and it’s looking to do the same in 2018 when its Nintendo Switch Online service launches. Who’d have thought that 30 years after their debut, NES games could be so popular? Alongside millions of downloads of mobile apps built on Nintendo properties, it also created a huge buzz around its hard-to-find NES Mini Classic.

It could be that this is the system that will help run original NES games on the modern Nintendo console when they launch on the new online service at some point in 2018.Īlthough Nintendo’s new Switch console is proving to be a pretty solid success story for the Japanese company, arguably its biggest boost in recent years have come from less likely sources. The Nintendo Switch has a NES emulator built into it known as “flog,” though it doesn’t appear to be used by anything at this time.
