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(Pocket-lint) - The UK Nintendo Store has the wireless Sega Mega Drive controller successful banal astatine last.
Designed for Nintendo Switch owners to play the scope of Mega Drive / Genesis games disposable with the Switch Online Expansion Pass, the controller has been disposable to bid successful the US for a while. Now UK retro gaming fans tin snag 1 too.
Play the Sega games with the Switch Online Expansion Pass arsenic they were intended. This faithful recreation of the archetypal controller is lone missing the cable, arsenic it is wire-free. Order present for £39.99.
Nintendo promises escaped transportation for the controller, arsenic it's implicit the £20 minimum spend.
It volition enactment with each the Sega games disposable connected Expansion Pass, which presently includes classics similar Dr Robotnik’s Mean Bean Machine, Ecco the Dolphin, Golden Axe, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Streets of Rage 2, and Strider.
Sadly, the wireless N64 controller is present retired of stock. As is the SNES controller for the Super Nintendo games disposable arsenic portion of a regular Switch Online subscription.
The dual battalion of NES controllers is inactive listed arsenic successful stock, however.
Switch Online is the paid rank work to alteration online gaming connected astir Switch games, positive different benefits, specified arsenic the expanding database of classical games. It costs £17.99, €19.99, $19.99 for a 12-month subscription.
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The Expansion Pass adds N64 and Sega Mega Drive / Genesis games, positive different add-ons, specified arsenic the Animal Crossing: New Horizons - Happy Home Paradise DLC. It bumps the terms up to £34.99, €39.99, $49.99.
Writing by Rik Henderson. Originally published connected 24 November 2021.
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