{"id":74997,"date":"2026-04-09T07:33:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T11:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=74997"},"modified":"2026-04-09T10:42:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T14:42:41","slug":"nintendo-switch-online-april-additions-include-3-nes-classics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=74997","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Switch Online April Additions Include 3 NES Classics"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>The Nintendo Switch Online classic games catalog has today been updated with three more titles, including arcade favorite Pac-Man.<\/p>\n<p>Nintendo Switch Online subscribers can access the three new (or rather, old) titles via the Nintendo Classics NES app now, and play Pac-Man, Mendel Palace and The Tower of Druaga.<\/p>\n<p>Pac-Man needs little introduction, as this is the classic experience from the yellow hero&#8217;s arcade days. Chomp pellets, avoid ghosts, and gobble up Power Pellets to turn the tide. Should you risk getting all the fruit too? Yes, yes, you should.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Prepare to be a-maze-d! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NintendoSwitchOnline?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NintendoSwitchOnline<\/a> members can now enjoy three more classic <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NES?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NES<\/a> games:<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc7b PAC-MAN<br \/>\u2b50 Mendel Palace<br \/>\ud83d\udee1\ufe0f THE TOWER OF DRUAGA <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TId6fEaV5W\">pic.twitter.com\/TId6fEaV5W<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nintendo UK (@NintendoUK) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NintendoUK\/status\/2042165764153639041?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 9, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Mendel Palace, meanwhile, is a puzzle game originally released in 1989 by a small team known as Game Freak \u2014 yes, the same developer that would later go on to make Pok\u00e9mon, a franchise you&#8217;re more likely to have heard of. Mendel Palace is an unsurprisingly simpler affair, which asks you to flip panels to ward off enemies and activate special effects. <\/p>\n<p>Last but not least is The Tower of Druaga, the Namco action RPG originally released in arcades all the way back in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nintendo Switch Online classic games catalog has today been updated with three more titles, including arcade favorite Pac-Man. Nintendo Switch Online subscribers can access the three new (or rather, old) titles via the Nintendo Classics NES app now, and play Pac-Man, Mendel Palace and The Tower of Druaga. Pac-Man needs little introduction, as this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":74999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-ign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74997"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74997"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75001,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74997\/revisions\/75001"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/74999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}