Author Picks 5 Weird SNES Switch Online Games for Console's 35th Anniversary

Q: Which incredibly rare, expensive retro game is secretly hiding in your Nintendo Switch Online subscription right now?

It is **Wild Guns**. Among the SNES games highlighted in the anniversary revisit of Nintendo Switch Online, **Wild Guns** stands out not just as a great action game but as a genuinely expensive collector’s item in the retro market. The writer praised it as a chaotic, stylish shooting-gallery game with a cowboy-and-robots aesthetic and said it was one of the best discoveries in the library. The added reporting makes clear why that matters: **physical copies of Wild Guns, especially the PAL version, are rare and costly**. Price-tracking data cited in the background material shows the PAL release selling for roughly **$170 loose**, more than **$1,100 complete**, and several thousand dollars in sealed or graded condition. That makes it one of the more valuable SNES-era games now effectively sitting inside a standard Nintendo Switch Online retro catalog entry. Other featured games such as **Uncharted Waters: New Horizons** also have notable collector value, but the searched material specifically points to **Wild Guns** as the rare, expensive retro title hiding in plain sight on the service. So if the question is which “incredibly rare, expensive” game is quietly included with a subscription, the clearest answer is **Wild Guns**.

1 articles · Updated · Polygon · Aug 22

Five lesser-known SNES games on Nintendo Switch Online stood out in an anniversary playthrough marking 35 years since the console’s 1991 North American launch.
Cosmo Gang The Puzzle led the list as a Tetris-like puzzler with 2x1 blocks and arrow mechanics that kept the reviewer playing for a week.
Wild Guns and Amazing Hebereke followed as the most immediately enjoyable finds — one a frantic cowboy-and-robots shooting gallery, the other a relaxed, cute arena fighter with simple combos.
Uncharted Waters: New Horizons impressed with unexpectedly deep 16th-century exploration and management systems, while Mario and Wario was judged more as a historical curiosity because its mouse-only controls felt clumsy.
The roundup framed Nintendo Switch Online as a way to revisit overlooked corners of the SNES library, not just staples like Super Mario World.