Boy, doing re-license some good retro games are indeed nightmare nowadays.

I'm not fussed about the NES games, I only pay up to play Splatoon 2 Mario Kart, Mario Tennis, Duabli 3 and Monster Hunter. I would happily pay double if Gamecube games were offered.

Stop subscribing and maybe they will try to make it better...

Huh?!?!?! You see more value in a service that gives you 2 retro old games, cloud storage, and online capability versus a service that gives you games across 3 platforms monthly, discounts, much better online capability, cloud storage, etc? Interesting....

When the PS+ free games are games either own already or have no interest in playing then they have no value to me. Not going to play a game just because it is free

lol while I know my experience is the minority, It could happen shit i refuse to renew psplus because Sony banned my ip 2 yrs ago a week after I subscribed to psplus . When i called sony to find out why they told me its because of my internet providers type of service(nevermind I use xbox live,steam,nintendo etc  all on the same network and they have never ip banned me). They told me to fix the issue i would have to get a new router or do some complicated port forwarding stuff that is beyond my field of experience. sorry i know it's slightly off topic

Why not? tbh.

Wii was 13 years ago..... whats wrong with Nintendo giveing out a few of those along with their service?

Xbox Gold in jan is giveing Celeste (1y game), WRC 6 (2y old game), Lara Craft - Guardian of the Light (6yo game), Farcry 2 (10yo game)

Playstation does likewise, they dont give you some 30yo (NES) games, some of them are newer titles.

Why shouldnt Nintendo do the same?

Don't forget that Microsoft had already given out Tomb Raider for free previously.

@OP

Not going to defend the service (though I don't know what people are expecting for under $2 a month), but Zelda II and Blaster Master are absolutely not "snoozefests".

They are both among the very best games for the system, and if neither appeals to you it's unlikely many other nes games would heh

That's what I think. I know that the "free" games are the selling point, but honestly I barely played any of them. And it costs almost three times as much. Personally I only use those services for online play, so while both of them are completely unnecessary, Nintendo offers the best value for what I need, costing me literally one espresso solo per month.