There’s no end to the amount of subscriptions that you can buy today. It’s absurd. Just when you think you’re able to cut cable, select a few options, and save some money, in rolls another service with the niche choice that you love so much. Goodbye to another ten bucks a month. So I can understand if you were apprehensive about another way to lose that hard-earned cash.

Hear me out, though. I’m talking to those of you who have a Switch, or those of you who might be interested in one, so you’ve already bought into this a little bit. The online feature doesn’t affect all your games from Nintendo, and it doesn’t possess the breadth of PlayStation Plus or Xbox Gold. I’ll be much more pleased when Nintendo fleshes out the subscription as more titles release for the Switch, and as support for the console deepens.

But it’s only $20 for a year, and that’s not bad at all. For the price of a movie ticket and a snack, you can have online capability with the Switch for twelve months. So they’re not milking us and running away like bandits or anything. The selling point for me, though, was the two or more free games that you receive whenever you purchase the subscription. A library of NES games, the classics, goodies like Metroid, Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda, and Donkey Kong.

I never got to play these when I was younger. And my wife, who did, never got to finish many of them. Now we have a chance to delve back into our childhood and revisit gaming history, without the need for a retro console like the ones that have been selling lately. Even better, the games come with a Save and Rewind function. This means there’s a chance for those of us who aren’t masochists to complete these games from start to finish without breaking our controllers and screaming in fits of rage.

Nintendo Switch online will give you the chance to duke it out with friends and strangers on games like Splatoon 2, Smash, and Mario Kart. But it also gives you a catalog of gaming treasures to work through when you want to take a break. Oh yeah, and there’s Tetris, too!