{"id":1238091,"date":"2025-03-08T17:58:57","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T22:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1238091"},"modified":"2025-03-08T17:58:57","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T22:58:57","slug":"you-can-now-play-donkey-kong-94-through-nintendo-switch-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1238091","title":{"rendered":"You can now play Donkey Kong \u201894 through Nintendo Switch Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Nintendo added an absolute gem to its Switch Online library of classic titles this week: the 1994 Game Boy game,<em> Donkey Kong<\/em>. The beloved game arrives alongside the 1995 puzzle game, <em>Mario\u2019s Picross<\/em>. Both are available now for Nintendo Switch Online subscribers, right in time for Mario Day (March 10).<\/p>\n<div id=\"431272c034c14b2c9fa56317e8d11d5c\">\n<div style=\"left:0;width:100%;height:0;position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Nna-zWXRjcg?rel=0\" style=\"top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;position:absolute;border:0;\" allowfullscreen=\"\" scrolling=\"no\" data-embed-domain=\"www.youtube.com\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Donkey Kong<\/em> built upon the arcade game that came before it, and features roughly 100 stages. The story should feel pretty familiar even to those who don\u2019t have a nostalgic connection to it \u2014 Donkey Kong has kidnapped a beautiful woman (Pauline) and Mario is in hot pursuit to rescue her. While the Super Game Boy brought some enhancements for the original game, those haven\u2019t been carried over for Nintendo Switch. But it should still be a treat to revisit as is. <em>Mario\u2019s Picross<\/em> offers a totally different experience, presenting the player with a couple hundred puzzles to solve by chiseling away at boxes and uncovering the secret image below.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"end-legacy-contents\"><\/span>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/gaming\/nintendo\/you-can-now-play-donkey-kong-94-through-nintendo-switch-online-225857703.html?src=rss<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo added an absolute gem to its Switch Online library of classic titles this week: the 1994 Game Boy game, Donkey Kong. The beloved game arrives alongside the 1995 puzzle game, Mario\u2019s Picross. Both are available now for Nintendo Switch &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1238091\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,44,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1238091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engadget","category-technology","category-unfiltered-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1238091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1238091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1238091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1238091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}