Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition officially revealed

Posted on May 8, 2024 by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Switch

Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition has now been officially revealed. The game launches for Switch on July 18, 2024.

Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition pays tribute to the 1990 tournament held in 1990, 2015, and 2017. The game features a variety of bite-sized bits of classic blockbusters, and there are over 150 speedrun challenges taken from 13 classic NES titles.

The single-player Speedrun Mode is included in which players can beat their own times and unlock new challenges and in-game pins. Also available is the Party Mode, which supports up to eight players locally. Lastly, Nintendo Switch Online members can enter World Championships Mode to submit their best times in five challenges that rotate each week and compete for a spot on the global leaderboard.

The following NES games are featured:

Balloon Fight
Donkey Kong
Excitebike
Ice Climber
Kid Icarus
Kirby’s Adventure
Metroid
Super Mario Bros.
Super Mario Bros. 2
Super Mario Bros. 3
Super Mario Bros. The Lost Levels
The Legend of Zelda
Zelda II: The Adventure of Link

Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition will be sold digitally for $30 and physically for $60. The latter is the Deluxe Set containing a physical version of the game, a set of five collectible pins, 13 art cards commemorating each of the featured NES classics, and a replica of the fabled gold-colored NES Game Pak (for display only, stand included) to commemorate the original 1990 Nintendo World Championships event.

You can currently pre-order the Deluxe Set at GameStop here.

Here’s the first trailer:

Announcement Trailer

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