Nintendo Switch Online: Every New Classic Game, November 2026

A ghost fights to save his girlfriend from gangsters by possessing enemies and borrowing their moves. Every enemy you take over plays differently, from gunmen to ninjas. It's Jaleco's Game Boy port of its own arcade game.

Muddy the mole digs above and below ground, pushing, pulling and throwing heavy balls to clear a path and rescue his family. Each screen is a small puzzle, and switching between the surface and the tunnels is the trick to most of them. And the name behind it is a big one: Shigeru Miyamoto, the man who made Mario, produced it.

You flip a ball around a pinball table packed with alligators, and they snap at it as it rolls past. HAL Laboratory made it right at the start of the Game Boy's life: it came out in 1989 in Japan and 1990 in the US.

You raise, train and battle monsters on the Game Boy Advance, in Tecmo's handheld take on the Monster Rancher series from 2001. Monsters grow and change depending on how you feed and train them. It needs the Expansion Pack, like every Game Boy Advance game on the service.

You run sideways through each level shooting everything in sight, with Metal Slug's chunky, detailed art squeezed onto a Game Boy Advance. This one gives you a health bar and a set of cards to collect, so it's a little gentler than the arcade games. And it isn't a port. It's one of the few Metal Slug games made for a handheld from the start.

You steer a constantly spinning stick through narrow mazes without touching the walls. The 2002 sequel to Kuru Kuru Kururin adds 16 minigames you can play with up to three friends. It had only ever come out in Japan, so this is its first release in the West.

Fox McCloud trades his Arwing for a staff on Dinosaur Planet, in Rare's 2002 GameCube adventure. It plays more like a Zelda game than Star Fox, with dungeons, puzzles and a few flying sections. It plays on Switch 2 only and has a widescreen option.

The ninja Ryu Hayabusa is framed for a murder, and you chase the real culprit through a fortress. The platforming is fast and tough, the way the series always is. It was his last adventure on the NES, back in 1991.

Two commandos fight their way north through the jungle in SNK's 1986 arcade shooter. You can jump into tanks and helicopters along the way. This is the 1987 NES version, with two-player co-op.

You race little radio-controlled cars, watching from above at an angle, and use weapons to knock rivals off the track. Winning earns money for upgrades, and there are 24 tracks to get through. On Switch Online, two players can race together.

Mario cleans up Isle Delfino with a water-spraying backpack called FLUDD, in the 2002 GameCube classic. FLUDD can hover, rocket you upward and wash away the goo covering the island. It plays on Switch 2 only, as part of the GameCube library.

An F-Zero spin-off made for the Virtual Boy in 1996 that never came out, until now. You race futuristic machines through tunnels in the Virtual Boy's red 3D. You need a Virtual Boy accessory for Switch to play it.

Another lost Virtual Boy game from 1996, also known as Dragon Hopper, finally playable. It's an action game from Intelligent Systems where you leap and fly across floating platforms and fight enemies. Like every Virtual Boy game here, it needs the Virtual Boy accessory.