A Nintendo Switch online subscription gets you a host of Nintendo Entertainment System classics to play, but fans are clamouring for more: SNES titles, to be precise.

Considered by many fans to be the pinnacle of 2D gaming, its presence has been sorely missing from Nintendo’s latest console, in stark contrast to previous generations that each offered up a buffet of downloadable retro content.

The SNES drought may be over soon, however, with Engadget reporting that references to 22 popular SNES titles have been unearthed in the Switch’s online code.

Revealed on Twitter, the code strings tease the appearance of what may be the first batch of games to be released to Switch online subscribers, including a bunch of titles we’d all expect to be slated for the first wave.

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, Super Metroid, Super Mario Kart and Yoshi’s Island are all named, alongside a couple of less essential titles like Demon’s Crest and Super Soccer.

While the list looks promising, there are a few glaring absences, especially in comparison to the games that made their way to the recent SNES Classic.

The Donkey Kong Country series is missing entirely, as are third-party faves like Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting, Mega Man X, And Final Fantasy VI.

With Contra III: The Alien Wars among these potential new titles, though, we’re sure more third-party games will eventually make their way to the service.

While many people may be questioning why Switch owners are so excited about replaying these same titles yet again, don’t forget: Nintendo is adding online features, hopefully enabling us to play some old-school multiplayer Super Mario Kart over the net.

For now, we’ll have to wait and see what Nintendo has in store for us, but if this list proves to be legitimate, we might be putting our SNES Classic editions in the cupboard very soon.

And if you simply can’t wait for the future-past of gaming any longer, you can always hack your Switch to run emulated N64 games, too.

Read: Why the Nintendo Switch is going to change gaming consoles forever

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