More Sega Games Added To Nintendo Switch Online – Popgeeks

One of the more neglected corners of the Nintendo Switch Online library just received some love…Sega Genesis got three more games today.

The most recognizable is the original Streets of Rage, the 1992 brawler that introduced the world to Axel, Adam, and Blaze. Three games would soon follow, the most recent being for modern consoles. Now you can see where all the hype came from…

Great two-player action! Axel, Adam, and Blaze—ex-cops, the solution to punk pollution. The city’s a war zone, and they’re going out two at a time to give the gangs a kick in the guts. This is the ultimate in street combat. These city fighters are martial arts maniacs with a battery of 40 individually controllable attacks including jabs, head butts, and overhead kicks. They’re up against a mob of Kung-Fu creeps and axe hurling fiends. On the streets it’s only two of them against hordes of attacking scum. Slam into pipe-wielding weirdos and bash ’em with their own metal. Throw an uppercut or an elbow smash—these goons keep comin’.

The other two titles are a bit more obscure….I haven’t heard of ESWAT at all, so I don’t really have anything to say about it. Super Thunder Blade is one of those pseudo-3D on-rails shooters Sega liked to do, mainly to show off their Super Scaler technology in the arcade. The Genesis had no scaling capability (without any add-ons, at least) and thus the conversions came off a bit choppy, as you’ll see here:

All three games are part of the Nintendo Switch Online library now — and they’ll be available on Switch 2 as well.