Mario Wario, Bubsy and Fatal Fury Special Join Switch Online

Nintendo added three Super Nintendo Entertainment System titles to its Nintendo Switch Online retro library on October 8, including a Mario-themed puzzle game that has never been officially released outside Japan. The update brings Mario Wario to subscribers for the first time in the West and also adds Bubsy in Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind and the fighting game Fatal Fury Special to the SNES Classics app.

Mario Wario, developed by Game Freak and originally distributed on the Super Famicom in Japan in 1993, is a 2D puzzle platformer in which players control a fairy who guides an obscured Mario through obstacle-filled screens. The game traditionally required the Super Famicom Mouse, and its arrival on the Switch follows an update that extended mouse control support to additional SNES titles in the Classics app. That change makes Mario Wario playable on the newer console models using JoyCon mouse mode or on any Switch with a connected USB mouse.

The update also includes Bubsy in Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind, the 1993 debut of the Bubsy series, in which the titular bobcat navigates platforming stages to recover stolen yarn from alien antagonists called the Woolies....