Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition

Released on July 18, 2024 by Nintendo

Developed by Nintendo

Test your speedrunning skills across more than 150 challenging moments from 13 classic NES games! Compete against players around the world online, challenge your friends on the couch, or try to see how far you can push your personal bests.

Do you have what it takes to be a champion? The tougher challenges may truly test your limits!

Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition Is Already A Classic!

Nintendo released World Championships NES Edition on Switch July 18th. Because I'm a pretty consistent mark for classic Nintendo games remixed in a new way, some months ago I pre-ordered the Physical Edition that came with a few fun extras along with the Switch game cart. After playing it a few times with friends on the couch I can say that this game is a nearly perfect game to play with friends. I've seen some reviews say that it's light on content and that's a fair consideration, however I believe there is a lot of game here and that this is a game that I will keep coming back to and playing with my friends for many years to come, if not... forever?

People talk about... Read All Nintendo released World Championships NES Edition on Switch July 18th. Because I'm a pretty consistent mark for classic Nintendo games remixed in a new way, some months ago I pre-ordered the Physical Edition that came with a few fun extras along with the Switch game cart. After playing it a few times with friends on the couch I can say that this game is a nearly perfect game to play with friends. I've seen some reviews say that it's light on content and that's a fair consideration, however I believe there is a lot of game here and that this is a game that I will keep coming back to and playing with my friends for many years to come, if not... forever?

People talk about "forever games" like Fortnite, Minecraft or others that have a ton of online players and games that one can play all day for years at a time. As I'm a bit older and some could say ancient I don't sit down and play games for 8-10 hours a day. Typically I play games with my young son or friends and it's a handful of hours per week. Still, I have games I'd consider "forever games" that I'll come back to over and over through the years like Link's Awakening or Secret of Mana and I'm always looking for other games to add to that the "forever list." I think Nintendo World Championship: NES Edition may be a forever game in that it mashes up some of the best NES games in a way that makes it really fun to compete with your friends.

World Championships is so good I think I agree with other reviewers in that a bit more to it would make it even better. I'm not sure it would take a lot and I'd appreciate more long form races through games like Zelda like a category where you raced through the whole game or started the game through a few dungeons or race through a hard dungeon with minimal items.

As a fan of the 3DS Remix game I'm happy Nintendo carried the series over to World Championships. Hopefully there are free updates that come later that adds more, I'd love one update that turns off the crowd cheering, it's really distracting and I'd prefer the normal audio anyway. Also, if Nintendo is reading this and they are absolutely not I'd totally buy a Super Nintendo World Championship game so... you know, make that one too.