Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for May 6th, 2019. It’s an unusually quiet Monday today, probably owing to the Japanese side of things still being on holiday for Golden Week. Nevertheless, we’ve got a little news, a new release, and a bunch of sales to check out today. That’s the Switch for you: even when it’s quiet, there’s never nothing going on. Let’s go ahead and have a look at what today is all about!
News
‘Donkey Kong Jr.’, ‘Clu Clu Land’, ‘Vs. Excitebike’ to Join Nintendo Switch Online

While Nintendo hasn’t made the official announcement as of this writing, the main site for the Nintendo Switch Online service has listed three upcoming games for the service. Presumably, these will be the May titles for the app, but all we can say for sure is that they are coming at some point. The games are Donkey Kong Jr., Clu Clu Land, and Vs. Excitebike. Donkey Kong Jr. is of course the follow-up to Nintendo’s hit Donkey Kong. You’ve probably played it. Clu Clu Land is a puzzle action game that seems slightly underwhelming at first but is actually pretty fun when you figure out how it works. Rather confusingly, Vs. Excitebike is not the same game that Hamster released on Switch a while back. Instead, it’s a previously Japan-only release that came out on the Famicom Disk System. It has a few interesting differences from the usual Excitebike, so I guess that...