My retro gaming heart is already in love with Nintendo's newly revealed Switch collection of NES speedrunning challenges
May. 8, 2024A 34-year-old esports event is back as Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition
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The game features 150 challenges spread across 13 NES classics, all focused on completing an in-game objective as quickly as possible. There are challenges ranging from beating the first level of Super Mario Bros. to defeating a certain number of enemies in Zelda 2. You earn coins from completing these objectives that you can use to unlock further challenges, and you’ll get letter rankings based on your performance after each goal.
Just like it seemedbased on the ESRB leak, it looks like a slightly less wacky follow-up to NES Remix, which was one of my favorite Wii U releases. The difference here is the focus on time-based challenges, particularly a set of online leaderboard challenges that rotate weekly. There’s also a party mode that’ll let you run through the challenges with eight players at once locally.
Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition hits July 18 for $30. You can also get a deluxe physical edition for $60. (Yes, I have already pre-ordered it.) In a press release, Nintendo confirmed the 13 games featured:
I’ve already got my fingers crossed that after this NES Edition, we’ll see a SNES Edition, Game Boy Edition, and more.
Several of thebest NES gamesof all time are here.
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