"Every addition to Nintendo's online catalog of classic games is a welcome one. Not least because there's no reason on Earth that the company doesn't just add them all at once, given they'll sue you into the sun if you try to play the 30-year-old games by any other means. But this latest update for the SNES collection in what's now called Nintendo Classics, alongside a Bubsy and a Fatal Fury, features a Mario game that's never been released outside of Japan before."
"Let's do Bubsy In: Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind first. You have to forgive the double-punning title, because the SNES and Genesis release was extremely well received in 1993. The first of eight Bubsy platform games (with a ninth to come next year from an increasingly desperate Atari), the nothing-like-a-bobcat Bubsy sets out to save...balls of yarn. Not exactly high-peril stakes, but a classic piece of 16-bit platforming with an animation style you just don't see any more."
"Next up is Fatal Fury: Special, a 1994 SNES release following its 1993 arcade debut. It was the third game in the Fatal Fury fighting game franchise, and essentially an improved version of 1992's Fatal Fury 2. It added previously CPU-only boss characters to the fighting roster, and rather significantly added combos to the series. It has looped around in the past, with an Xbox Arcade release in 2007, a Wii version in 2009, and then yet again appeared on consoles in 2017."
Nintendo updated the Nintendo Classics SNES catalog with three additions: Bubsy In: Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind, Fatal Fury: Special, and Mario & Wario. Bubsy In released on SNES and Genesis in 1993, is the first of eight Bubsy platform games, and features cartoon animation and a yarn-rescue premise. Fatal Fury: Special is a 1994 SNES port of the 1993 arcade game, the third Fatal Fury entry and an enhanced version of Fatal Fury 2 that added CPU-only bosses and combos; it previously reappeared on Xbox Arcade (2007), Wii (2009), and modern consoles (2017). Mario & Wario debuted on Super Famicom in 1993, remained Japan-exclusive despite English text, and is a Lemmings-like puzzle-platformer where Wanda the fairy guides Mario while Wario obscures his view.
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