Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition

Not to be confused with NES Remix.

Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition
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Developer(s)	Nintendo EPD indieszero
Publisher(s)	Nintendo
Director(s)	Hirotaka Watanabe
Producer(s)	Kouichi Kawamoto Takayuki Shimamura
Composer(s)	Masaru Tajima
Platform(s)	Nintendo Switch
Release	WW: July 18, 2024
Genre(s)	Action, party, platformer, racing
Mode(s)	Single-player, multiplayer

Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition ^[a] is a 2024 video game developed by Nintendo and indieszero ^[1] and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch system. It is based on the Nintendo World Championships esports competition. ^[2] The game was released on July 18, 2024, digitally on the Nintendo eShop and as a physical deluxe edition in stores. ^[3]

Gameplay

Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition focuses on players speedrunning certain objectives, known as Challenges, in NES-era Nintendo video games, aiming to complete these tasks as fast as possible. Players are given specific grades for completing these Challenges based on how fast they completed them and are given coins to spend on unlocking new Challenges. Unlike the actual Nintendo World Championships in 1990 or the Nintendo World Championships Remix game mode within NES Remix , there is no mode within NES Edition that uses a points system over three games. ^[4]

Modes

• Speedrun Mode - Players have to speedrun specific Challenges as fast as possible on their own. Coins earned in the game can be used to unlock new Challenges to complete in this mode. ^[4]
• World Championships - Players speedrun five different Challenges consecutively, with the time spent on them being tallied and placed onto an online leaderboard. The World Championships mode consists of weekly Competitions, with the list of Challenges updated each week. ^[5]
• Survival Mode - In this battle royale style mode, the player faces the ghosts of players from all over the world in three rounds. At the end of each round, half of the players are eliminated. To qualify, the player must place in the top half of the leaderboard. ^[6]
• Party Mode - Up to eight players in local multiplayer compete to see who can complete Challenges the fastest. Each player is given points after each Challenge (known in the mode as a Match) that are accumulated to determine a winner. ^[3]

Games

The following games are featured in this game: ^[3]

• 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

Development and release

The game was initially accidentally leaked early by the ESRB on May 3, 2024. ^{[7] [8]} It was officially announced on May 9, 2024, and was released on July 18, 2024. ^[9]

Reception

Reception

Aggregate score

Aggregator	Score
Metacritic	73/100 [10] [b]

Review scores

Publication	Score
Famitsu	32/40 [11]
Game Informer	7.75/10 [12]
Shacknews	8/10 [13]

Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition received "mixed or average" reviews from critics, according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. ^[10] In Japan, four critics from Famitsu gave the game a total score of 32 out of 40, with each critic awarding the game an 8 out of 10. ^[11]

Sales

Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition debuted at No.3 on the Famitsu chart during the opening week in Japan, selling 27,391 retail copies, becoming the second-best selling new release of the week, behind Powerful Pro Baseball 2024-2025 . ^[14]

See also

• NES Remix , a video game series on Nintendo 3DS and Wii U with similar play style

Notes

1. Nintendo World Championships: Famicom Sekai Taikai (Japanese: Nintendo World Championships ファミコン世界大会, Hepburn: Nintendō Wārudo Chanpionshippusu: Famikon Sekai Taikai)
2. Score based on 70 reviews

References

1. Robinson, Andy (July 11, 2024). "NES World Championships developer revealed via datamine". VGC. Retrieved July 11, 2024.
2. Brian (May 8, 2024). "Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition officially revealed". Nintendo Everything. Retrieved May 8, 2024.
3. Yin-Poole, Wesley (May 8, 2024). "Nintendo Announces Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition for Switch With Release Date and Debut Trailer". IGN . Retrieved May 8, 2024.
4. Webster, Andrew (May 8, 2024). "Nintendo's new NES collection is all about speedrunning". The Verge . Retrieved May 8, 2024.
5. LeBlanc, Wesley (May 8, 2024). "Nintendo World Championship: NES Edition Hits Switch In July With 150 Speedrun Challenges In 13 Games". Game Informer . Archived from the original on May 8, 2024. Retrieved May 8, 2024.
6. Grassl, Zion (June 26, 2024). "Hands On: Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition - All The Trappings Of A Game Night Great". Nintendo Life. Retrieved June 30, 2024.
7. Yin-Poole, Wesley (May 3, 2024). "Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition for Switch Rated by ESRB". IGN . Retrieved May 8, 2024.
8. Lada, Jenni (May 3, 2024). "Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition Switch Leaked by ESRB". Siliconera. Retrieved December 9, 2024.
9. Yin-Poole, Wesley (May 9, 2024). "Nintendo Announces Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition for Switch With Release Date and Debut Trailer". IGN . Archived from the original on July 18, 2024. Retrieved December 24, 2024.
10. "Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition - Reviews". Metacritic . Retrieved August 4, 2024.
11. Romano, Sal (August 7, 2024). "Famitsu Review Scores: Issue 1861". Gematsu. Retrieved May 20, 2025.
12. "Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition Review". Game Informer. Archived from the original on July 28, 2024. Retrieved October 8, 2024.
13. Mejia, Ozzie (July 17, 2024). "Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition review: 8-bit is almost enough". Shacknews. Retrieved April 1, 2025.
14. "Famitsu Sales: 7/15/24 – 7/21/24 [Update]". Gematsu. July 25, 2024. Retrieved January 14, 2025.

External links

• Official website