Super Mario Strikers Is the Next GameCube Title Coming to Nintendo Switch Online's Retro Library

Super Mario Strikers — oregon Mario Smash Football, arsenic it's known successful Europe — is joining Nintendo Switch 2's Nintendo Switch Online GameCube room adjacent week. It's the archetypal crippled to person been added to the room since Switch 2 launched earlier this month.

Nintendo Switch Online is simply a subscription-based online gaming work for the Nintendo Switch gaming platform. Memberships see online functionality, allowing you to vie oregon cooperate with friends, arsenic good arsenic a postulation of classical Nintendo games spanning 4 decades, including titles from the NES, SNES, Game Boy, Nintendo 64, and, astir recently, the caller GameCube library. A escaped seven-day proceedings is besides available.

The GameCube room presently includes The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, F-Zero GX, and Soulcalibur 2. Further titles thought to beryllium joining the work see Super Mario Sunshine, Luigi's Mansion, Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness, and more.

"Mario and friends clash successful this utmost shot crippled primitively released for the Nintendo GameCube strategy successful 2005," Nintendo teased. "Matches unfold with white-hot speed, intensity, and acquainted items, similar shells and mushrooms, to springiness you a boost successful crushing your opponent. But the existent cardinal to winning is the Super Strike, a almighty changeable that tin nett you 2 points astatine once! Jump close successful with elemental controls, hone your techniques, and deed the transportation with Mario and his friends! Available exclusively connected Nintendo Switch 2 for Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack members!"

IGN declared Super Mario Strikers to beryllium "Good" erstwhile released mode backmost successful 2008 — that's astir 20 years agone now; yikes — penning successful our review: "Nintendo's foray into sports titles continues with Super Mario Strikers, a shot crippled that's dissimilar thing ever to deed the pitch."

Don't forget, an highly chill replica GameCube controller is besides disposable for maximum nostalgia.

Nintendo Switch 2 is disconnected to a beardown start, with 3.5 cardinal consoles sold, but an investigation connected the console's motorboat week income paints a mixed representation of however good games not made by Nintendo are present selling.

"The Nintendo Switch 2 is simply a captious upgrade implicit the archetypal Switch if that's the lone mode you've been capable to play games for the past 8 years," we wrote successful IGN's Nintendo Switch 2 review, awarding it 7/10, "but improvements that are mostly playing catch-up and a large terms leap marque this sequel strategy astir arsenic breathtaking arsenic a long-overdue telephone upgrade successful the larger strategy of things."

Vikki Blake is simply a newsman for IGN, arsenic good arsenic a critic, columnist, and advisor with 15+ years acquisition moving with immoderate of the world's biggest gaming sites and publications. She's besides a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her astatine BlueSky.