Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition will be arriving later this month on the Switch, and ahead of its launch, Nintendo Treehouse has released a 30-minute video showing off the different games, challenges, and modes.
This is perhaps the most detailed look at the game yet, so if you're still not sure whether you would be interested in this upcoming release, this should help you out. Be sure to also check our Nintendo Life hands on. In short, we think this has the potential to become an absolute staple of game night!
When this title launches on 18th July 2024, there'll be a digital version and a Deluxe Set containing a physical game card as well as a gold replica NES cartridge. You can learn more about this retro-inspired bundle in our previous coverage:
Will you be getting this game when it arrives on the Switch later this month? Tell us in the comments.
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Oh yeah, I forgot I preordered the deluxe of this.
Still think they should include the full games, ain't nobody speedrunning 20 second parts of games. Heck I'd pay $60 for a physical Switch cart with every first party NES game.
@IceClimbersMain Literally all of them come with Nintendo Switch Online.
@nomadforlove
(question: how)
@Mario500
(question: what)
I will give the summary of the two opinions we will ever read on this game so we can save some time.
1) This looks great. Day 1 pre-ordered. I love speedruns!!
2) For the price they are asking, I wish they came with the full games instead.
Many doubted it, but…. Kid Icarus is back!
Yeah. Excited for this. 😎
Nice, will watch it later when I have the time for it!
By the way, has everyone forgotten that there are also the Legends challenges which based on the one we've seen in the trailer shown during the Direct - doubt the other ones will be much different - are practically the full games (https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2024/06/nintendo-world-championships-nes-edition-shows-off-survival-mode-and-legend-challenge)?
I don't understand how people are expecting this to include full versions of the NES games.
1. Nintendo never said the full games would be part of the “Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition”.
2. Nintendo World Championships (1990, 2015 and 2017) was never about playing the full versions of the games.
3. The full games are part of Nintendo Switch Online (NSO) which is a subscription service. Nintendo want people to subscribe to NSO.
4. Nintendo has never really been that into doing retro port collections, like Sega and many other publishers are doing.
Nintendo has sold retro games in physical and download form, but mainly one by one, and they pretty much stopped after the Wii U and 3DS.
There are a few exceptions, Nintendo has released a few collections, but they are mainly just a few games, by series and usually have updated versions of the games.
Okay, I've just watched the video, they confirmed that each game has a Legend challenge so most likely for several if not all the games you'll have to fully speedrun them.
In the case of Super Mario Bros. you do so by using the Warp Zones and it seems like the game automatically rewinds if you fail to do so (we know for sure it does if you block the vine in 4-2 with a block as seen in the video so most likely it does that even if you just go past them) so the full games are indeed not included in that sense, but at the same time it makes way more sense in the context of speedrunning and so this game.
@nomadforlove yeah and if I stop paying the $20 a year (or I go offline for longer than a week, which happens often with a portable device) then I can't play them. I want to own my games.
This still looks like a neat game to learn speedrunning tricks for these specific games and to maybe get into speedrunning other classic games.
However, it's not really for me. I'll play the full titles at my own pace.
That was worth watching for the Mario speedrun race. I'm actually looking forward to my preorder now.
I appreciate everyone's position and circumstances are different. For me, the NSO service is a better deal than owning the games. I already own most people f the retro games I want on the original hardware I purchased in the 90s (N64, SNES) and I have a NES minim frankly, the last thing I want is to have to purchase these games on the Switch, and then again on the Switch 2. I've already tried that with my 3DS and Wii.
I would never have purchased the number of games that I now have access to via NSO, so this is the right solution for me. For the retro games I do own (largely cart only, no box or instructions to manage costs), I have a huge backlog that realistically I am going to struggle to make a reasonable headway into until my children are grown and left home.
As I said at the start of this post, I do appreciate that the circumstances we approach "what is best for me" will be individual to us all.
Needless to say I have pre-ordered this bad boy and remain super excited.
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