Nintendo Switch Online: 10 More SNES Games It Desperately Needs

10. ActRaiser

In ActRaiser you run and jump across scrolling stages, hacking and slashing at enemies, looking for extra lives and facing epic boss battles.

So far, so ordinary but then things take a turn. The player character is a god. In the game’s action stages you get to play a vengeful, sword welding deity but you also have to rebuild the world in civilisation simulation stages. You direct your people and help them out by changing the weather. It seems that power for gods, as with Spidermen, comes with great responsibility.

Its an ambitious blending of genres that no one has really tried before or since and it works surprisingly well.

A port to mobile devices late last year omitted the city building stages entirely leaving just the hack’n’slash bits. A real missed opportunity but one Nintendo could rectify. The game is much more fun in its complete state(and, let’s face it, on a platform with buttons).

ActRaiser’s inclusion on Switch would certainly bring something a bit unusual to the SNES Online collection.