With GameCube games now available to play on Nintendo Switch Online with the Expansion Pack upgrade, it’s fun to think about other hardware that might benefit from similar treatment. The Wii springs most readily to mind, with a lineup of amazing games many players will remember from the system’s heyday.

There’s no shortage of gems in the Wii library, and they didn’t all come from Nintendo itself. Thinking back on some of the games that people missed at the time, it’s easy to argue that Nintendo should add Wii to Switch Online sometime soon, if only so we have another chance to play classic games like the 12 on this list.

You’ve heard of Excitebike, but have you heard of Excite Truck? It was the start of a short-lived offshoot series of arcade-style racers from Monster Games (NASCAR Heat 4), which was a frequent Nintendo collaborator around that time. Players controlled pickup trucks as they raced around beautiful environments around the world and beyond, using nitrous to launch from small hills and catch air. The island’s topography changed around them, keeping the action fast and furious for both players. A sequel, Excitebots: Trick Racing followed in 2009, and leaned more heavily into airborne stunts. Then the franchise disappeared. It would be nice to see it return in remastered form, possibly even with a new sequel. But if that can’t happen, an appearance on Switch Online would be just lovely.

Known as Anno: Create a New World outside North America, Dawn of Discovery for Wii was an accessible city builder published by Ubisoft.

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