BitSnark

As promised, Nintendo has made ten NES games free to download to 3DS ambassadors (folks, who bought the console before the price drop).

The ten free games that are available for download are:

Super Mario Bros.
Donkey Kong Jr.
Balloon Fight
Ice Climber
The Legend of Zelda
Wrecking Crew
Mario Open Golf
Mario & Yoshi
Metroid
Zelda: Adventures of Link

How do you get these lovely, free retro-treats you ask? It’s quite simple really just follow the instructions below:

1) Go into the eShop and scroll all the way to the left. Click on ‘Settings / Other’. Scroll down on that list and click on ‘Items You’ve Downloaded’ to see your download history.

2) Scroll past all the downloads you’ve made since you got your 3DS and you will come across the ten free NES games as listed above.

3) Click the ‘Re-download’ button on each one and repeat times ten.

And voila! Ten free NES games that you’ve probably played and completed countless times before are now yours.

Once you’ve grabbed all ten of these games, you will also find a little something called ‘Ambassador Certificate’. You’re going to want to download this, because whilst on first inspection it looks like a pointless as piss video, it actually has Notification functionality that will keep you updated on when the other ten games, those delicious GBA titles, will be available for the grabbing.