
I unlocked Donkey Kong as one of my games with my Pikachu Amiibo (we’ll get to that in a second), and Donkey Kong only has three levels. you’ll get a very long way through it before the timer runs out.īeyond that, the timer hardly matters for half the NES games out there. Or, in other words, if you’re really, really good at Super Mario Bros. To the best of my knowledge each of the games on this download are there in their entirety, with the only thing preventing you from playing the entire game is the 180 second time limit. That way you get to experience a fair number of the game’s important moments within the 180 seconds that each Amiibo tap grants you. Each game is broken up into ‘scenes,’ and each time you tap the Amiibo down you’ll be taken to a different scene within the game.

Now you won’t start in the same spot each time. Each Amiibo unlocks one game, and then each time you tap that Amiibo to the gamepad, you get 180 seconds to play one of Nintendo’s classic NES or SNES games. It makes no sense whatsoever, even though it won’t cost players anything.Īmiibo Touch & Play allows you to use those Amiibo miniatures that you’ve been spending a fortune on to unlock time limited demos of a range of SNES and NES games.

But then I started playing with it, and felt compelled to write something about it, because I cannot fathom why Nintendo would expend the resources and energy to create this thing. I wasn’t going to review this ‘game,’ because it’s free and it doesn’t even have microtransactions.
