Nintendo Announces 3 Retro Mario Games Returning for Mario Day

Nintendo Announces 3 Retro Mario Games Returning for Mario Day Southeast Asia Home Amazon Deals Pro-tips by Codashop PC PS4 Xbox One Nintendo Mobile Entertainment EsportsMoreSearch Home More About IGN SEAContactAdvertisePressUser AgreementPrivacy PolicyCookie PolicyRSSIGN Southeast Asia is operated under license by Media Prima Digital Sdn Bhd Change Region United States United Kingdom Australia Africa Adria Serbian/Croatian Adria Slovenian Benelux / Dutch Brazil China / 中国 Czechia / Slovakia France Germany Greece / Ελλάδα Hungary India Israel Italy / Italia Japan / 日本 Korea / 한국 Latin America Middle East – English Middle East – الأوسطالشرق Nordic Poland Portugal Southeast Asia Spain / España Turkey / Türkiye world.ign.com Register / Login Register / Login Login Register Mario vs. Donkey Kong Nintendo Announces 3 Retro Mario Games Returning for Mario Day Tennis! Clash! Donkey Kong! This post might contain affiliation links. If you buy something through this post, the publisher may get a share of the sale. By Tom Phillips  Updated: March 4, 2026, 6:32 p.m. Related reads:MapleStorySEA Celebrates 20th Anniversary With Massive Summer Updates Next week’s annual celebration of Super Mario will be marked by the return of three retro games via Nintendo Switch Online.Nintendo will add two more Virtual Console titles and a popular Game Boy Advance classic to its subscription service on March 10, otherwise known as Mario Day (because its date is MAR10).More like thisOpen Back Headphones: A Sound Experience Like No OtherThe recently-launched Nintendo Switch Online Virtual Console range will get Mario Tennis and Mario Clash, both released in 1995, while its Game Boy Advance catalog will add 2004’s Mario vs. Donkey Kong. You will, however, need the Switch Online’s pricier Expansion Pack tier to access the games. Three classic titles are coming to #NintendoSwitch2 and #NintendoSwitch on March 10.Virtual Boy for #NintendoSwitchOnline members:- Mario’s Tennis™- Mario Clash™Game Boy Advance for Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack members:- Mario vs. Donkey Kong™ pic.twitter.com/amdzOF5tEn— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) March 4, 2026 If you like peering into a peripheral and batting away balls, Mario Tennis is a fairly standard sport experience that happens to feature Nintendo’s mascot and other Mushroom Kingdom residents on the court. Mario Clash, meanwhile, is set within the a series of underground pipes and lets you go bowling with Koopa Troopa shells. Of the three, Mario vs. Donkey Kong is the most interesting. A spiritual successor to the original Donkey Kong, this puzzle platformer was successful enough that it spawned a whole spinoff series, and a full Switch remake that launched in 2024. Here, you can see where that all started.Nintendo has not yet announced any other celebrations to mark Mario Day, though fans are hoping we hear more from the company soon following a recent third-party Partner Direct and this week’s Indie World broadcast. The company has often held a full Nintendo Direct in March, ahead of the financial year’s end. Maybe we’ll hear more about that next week too.Tom Phillips is IGN’s News Editor. You can reach Tom at tom_phillips@ign.com or find him on Bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social This post might contain affiliation links. If you buy something through this post, the publisher may get a share of the sale. In This Article