Enlarge / Nintendo's promotional key art for the launch of GoldenEye 007 on Switch. (credit: Nintendo )

Today marks the long-awaited rerelease of the Nintendo 64 classic GoldenEye 007 on the Nintendo Switch. As was announced before the launch, the game supports widescreen. When I learned that, my first thought wasn't "Oh, nice!" Rather, it was "OK, but what about the rest of the library?"

To be clear, there's no easy way to make old 4:3 games fill up a modern 16:9 aspect ratio, and that's not something I would recommend in this case. But the solution used by the rest of the library of old games running within the Nintendo Switch Online service—enclosing every game in horribly distracting and potentially destructive gray borders—is, well, awful.

So as Nintendo finally adds one of the most beloved Nintendo 64 games to Switch Online, allow me a moment to vent some frustration on behalf of many players.

Enlarge / The box art for Atari 50 includes teases of various console designs and game box art images. (credit: Atari Corp. / Digital Eclipse)

Earlier this year, news emerged about yet another Atari classic-gaming compilation meant to celebrate the company's 50th anniversary. As we've seen quite a few Atari-branded collections over the years, we wondered exactly what shape Atari 50 's selection of "over 100 games" would take ahead of its launch on Steam , Xbox One , PS4 , and Nintendo Switch on November 8.

Thanks to a European retailer listing that emerged over the weekend, we now have an apparently final list of the Atari 50 selection of games: 103 in all, as spread across arcade cabinets, six console families, and a selection of "reimagined," newly coded games and ports. The verdict: It's pretty good, yet it's still a glaring reminder that the compilation might better be named "Atari Corp. 50."

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We'll break this article up into platform-specific lists, which each include our own notes and analysis, and we'll start with the least-surprising list. This collection's stewards at Digital Eclipse ( TMNT: The Cowabunga Collection ) had already announced plans to "reimagine" six games beyond the original code supplied by Atari's archives, and these alone could be worth the price of admission for '70s and '80s gaming stalwarts.