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Here’s what you can play right now after Nintendo’s February Direct

Free demos, full releases, and lots of classics

Marco Wutz

Here’s what you can play right now after Nintendo’s February Direct
Here’s what you can play right now after Nintendo’s February Direct /

Contents

  1. February Nintendo Direct: Demos
  2. February Nintendo Direct: Game Boy and Game Boy Advance
  3. February Nintendo Direct: Metroid Prime and Baseball

The Nintendo Direct show on February 8, 2023, was a big hot among Nintendo fans, announcing a ton of exciting things to look forward to: Pikmin 4 finally got a release date, Game Boy and Game Boy Advance games are coming to Switch Online, Metroid Prime Remastered was announced and immediately released, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom got a new trailer, the Advance Wars remakes are confirmed to come out in April, and a brand-new Professor Layton game is in development.

As the surprise drop of Metroid Prime Remastered shows, however, not everything announced at the showcase lies in the future. Here is everything shown in Nintendo’s February Direct that is playable right now.

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February Nintendo Direct: Demos

Nintendo released a couple of free demos to show off upcoming games, which you can download and play right now:

  • Octopath Traveler 2
  • Sea of Stars
  • Kirby’s Return to Dreamland Deluxe

A new wave of DLC was also announced for Fire Emblem Engage, which is available now for free if you subscribe to the Switch Online Expansion Pass.

February Nintendo Direct: Game Boy and Game Boy Advance

One of the highlights of Nintendo’s show was the announcement of many Game Boy and Game Boy Advance titles becoming available on Nintendo Switch through Switch Online.

The Game Boy games will be available via the basic package, but the Advance games require the Expansion Pass subscription.

Game Boy

  • Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare
  • Game & Watch: Gallery 3
  • Gargoyle’s Quest
  • Kirby’s Dream Land
  • Zelda Link’s Awakening DX
  • Metroid 2: Return of Samus
  • Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins
  • Tetris
  • Wario Land 3

Game Boy Advance

  • Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3
  • WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgames
  • Kuru Kuru Kururin
  • Mario Kart: Super Circuit
  • Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga
  • The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap

February Nintendo Direct: Metroid Prime and Baseball

Nintendo Direct also had the announcement and immediate release of two new games in store: Metroid Prime Remastered stole the show, of course, as it’s highly regarded by fans of the series and will be a welcome distraction from the development woes of the current Metroid project.

Then there’s WBSC eBaseball Power Pros, which is offered as an absolute bargain for under $1. It may not be incredibly realistic, but the cute style makes more than up for it.

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Marco Wutz
MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg

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