Animal Crossing: New Horizons Update Will Let You Play Retro Games With One Foolish Catch

The upcoming free replace for Animal Crossing: New Horizons comprises a slew of latest options, together with one not seen within the collection because the first recreation. Through obtainable retro console objects, you may play traditional Nintendo video games in your villager’s home–though solely when you have a Nintendo Switch Online subscription.

Among the additions within the recreation’s model 3.0 replace is a resort resort run by Kapp’n and his household; in case you assist them out on the resort, its memento store will supply retro Nintendo toys and recreation consoles, together with the Game Boy, NES, and SNES.

You can then place these consoles in your house and play “a select classic game on each system.” The trailer reveals the participant character booting up the NES traditional Ice Climber, nevertheless it’s unclear in case you can play a couple of recreation per system, and which video games can be found to play.

Of course, when you have an energetic Nintendo Switch Online subscription, you may already play video games like Ice Climber on Nintendo Classics functions; taking part in these video games via Animal Crossing: New Horizons is extra of a novelty.

The authentic Animal Crossing recreation on GameDice had 19 NES video games that you could play via obtainable objects, with Ice Climber amongst them. Other titles included Balloon Fight, Donkey Kong, and Punch-Out. Subsequent Animal Crossing video games lacked this retro video games function, presumably as a result of the truth that these video games have been all purchasable via Nintendo’s Virtual Console service.

Classic consoles are simply among the many goodies coming to New Horizons: Lego furnishings and objects based mostly on The Legend of Zelda and Splatoon may also make their strategy to the sport when the replace (and the sport’s Nintendo Switch 2 Edition) land on January 15, 2026.