In celebration of the nationwide video game competition, Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition challenges players from around the globe to compete against each other.
Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition features 150-speedrunning challenges across 13 different NES games, including Super Mario Bros. 3, The Legend of Zelda, Donkey Kong, and more. Players can either enjoy completing the mini-games offline or put their skills to the test and compete for a spot on the global online leaderboards. Additionally, the title supports up to eight players in local party mode.
Nintendo World Championships goes live on the Nintendo eShop on July 18 for $29.99. Nintendo confirmed that a Deluxe Set which costs $59.99, including collectible items and a physical game cart, will also be available.
In 1990, Nintendo hosted the first Nintendo World Championships, touring 29 U.S. cities to see who could get the highest score in Mario and other games in a limited allotment of time. 25 years later, Nintendo brought the competition back in 2015 and 2017, and had contestants compete for the highest scores and fastest times across multiple retro and current titles.
Nintendo brought back contestants from previous Nintendo World Championship competitions for the reveal trailer. Some challenges shown in the trailer included racing to grab a super mushroom in Mario, defeating a group of Octoroks in Zelda, and reaching the gate as quickly as possible in Metroid. Based on the footage, it doesn’t appear that many of these challenges will take longer than five to twenty seconds, but we might have only gotten a look at some of the simpler mini-games.
