Nintendo is doing something the company has never done before: Next month, it will remove a retro game from its the Nintendo Switch Online’s classic catalog.

The Nintendo Switch Online service has removed its first retro game from its selection of SNES titles. While there are still hundreds of games to play on the NES, SNES, Game Boy, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo 64, and Genesis libraries through Nintendo Switch Online, one specific game will be lost on March 28.

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Nintendo Switch Online customers in Japan and South Korea will lose access to Super Formation Soccer on March 27th. This is a harsh reminder that subscriptions are not a replacement for ownership, and that legacy game publishers are not motivated by preservation.

Super Formation Soccer is being pulled from the service on March 28th, a Japanese Nintendo support account announced. The game, which seems to be owned by Spike Chunsoft and goes by Super Soccer in the US and Europe,

We’ve become used to the slow addition of Nintendo classics to the Nintendo Switch Online service since it launched in 2018, but some subscribers will apparently lose access to an old-school game on March 28.