10 Awesome Video Games You Can't Play Anymore

7. Super Mario Bros. 35

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For as many hugely successful video games as Nintendo has produced over the decades, they sure do make their fair share of bizarre, counter-intuitive decisions.

Case in point, in October 2020 they released a new free Mario game for Nintendo Switch Online subscribers - Super Mario Bros. 35, an incredibly inspired mash-up of typical Mario platforming with battle royale elements.

The sheer creativity of adapting Mario into a 35-player strategy-fuelled duel to the death spoke for itself, and so many were left crushed when Nintendo shut the game down exactly six months after release.

According to Nintendo themselves, Super Mario Bros. 35 was only ever intended to be a limited-time event to celebrate Super Mario Bros.' 35th Anniversary.

Yet that wasn't good enough for fans, who were baffled by Nintendo discontinuing a popular game they clearly could've just released as a paid eShop title and kept alive in perpetuity.

Though hackers have reverse-engineered their own servers for the game, anyone hoping to play it legit without nefariously tinkering around with their Switch is sadly totally out of luck.

Given Nintendo's tendency to stick by even their most head-scratching of business decisions, don't expect them to change course on this one either.

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