On July 18, Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition will be out for Switch.
Video game speedrunning is a time-honored habit, and this is especially true when it comes to games that are considered to be considered to be vintage. The Nintendo Switch game Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition, which is scheduled to be released on July 18th, is Nintendo’s attempt to capitalize on the trend. The game is really somewhat weird. The focus is on completing old video games at a high speed, including games such as Super Mario Bros., Metroid, and Legend of Zelda, amongst others.
This comes in the form of 150 speedrunning challenges that have been obtained from thirteen different NES titles. These challenges appear to be somewhat similar to those awesome NES Remix releases that were released during the Wii U period. To give it the feel of a tournament, there will be worldwide internet leaderboards, and there will also be local eight-player cooperative play. People will be able to try and try again until they get it right because the game will also have a feature that automatically rewinds the game.
If the name Nintendo World Championships sounds familiar to you, it is because it is derived from the semi-regular esports competition that the corporation hosts. Since 1990, when Nintendo traveled to 29 different locations across the country, this has been the company’s logo for competitions that take place in person. An extremely rare Nintendo Entertainment System cartridge that had minigames based on Super Mario Bros., Tetris, and Rad Racer was also produced as a result of the first national competition. There were just a few hundred ever produced, and they are currently selling on eBay for a whopping $175,000, no kidding. This cartridge was selling for between $5,000 and $10,000 at the time that we covered it the last time. We are living in a time of retro-flation.
There is a physical edition that will be released in the near future, however pre-orders for the digital version are currently available on the eShop. One physical game cart, thirteen art cards, and five pins will be included with this edition of the game. In addition to that, it will come with a special gold NES cartridge, which, unfortunately, will not work anyhow. Why don’t you, Nintendo? In thirty years, I want to be able to sell that item for $175,000, therefore I need to make it functional. It costs thirty dollars to purchase the digital edition of Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition, while the deluxe physical pack costs sixty dollars.