All five Game Boy Mega Man games have been added to Switch Online

Nintendo has added the five Game Boy entries in the Mega Man series to Switch Online.

The five games, known as Rockman World 1-5 in Japan, are not straight ports of the NES games but have some similarities, with most of them featuring bosses from the console games.

All five games, with the exception of Mega Man II, were outsourced by Capcom to another studio called Minakuchi Engineering, and were received positively by critics.

For Mega Man II, the game was outsourced to another developer called Japan System House. Mega Man co-designer Keiji Inafune said this was the Game Boy Mega Man game he liked the least, claiming the studio wasn’t familiar with the series, and as such Capcom returned to Minakuchi Engineering for the third game.

The addition of all five Mega Man Game Boy titles now brings the total number of Game Boy and Game Boy Color games on Switch Online to 29 in the west, with two more (Yakuman and The Frog for Whom the Bell Tolls) available in Japan.

Game Boy and Game Boy Color games are available as part of the standard Switch Online subscription, which costs £3.49/€3.99/$3.99 for a one-month membership, £6.99/€7.99/$7.99 for a three-month membership, and £17.99/€19.99/$19.99 for a 12-month membership.

The standard membership also includes separate libraries of NES and SNES games.

Players who pay extra for the Switch Online Expansion Pack also get access to Nintendo 64, Mega Drive / Genesis and Game Boy Advance libraries.