Get hyped: Nintendo is reviving a legendary contest with bite-sized NES challenges tailored for speed, party play, and online rivalries — dropping on Switch this summer.
A fresh announcement tied to a legendary 1990 tournament
Nintendo has revealed Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition, a new release inspired by the iconic 1990 Nintendo World Championships. The title will arrive on Nintendo Switch on July 18 and adapts the tournament spirit into a compact collection of competitive tasks built around classic NES games.
Which retro titles supply the challenges?
The game pulls moments from thirteen NES classics: Balloon Fight; Donkey Kong; Excitebike; Ice Climber; Kid Icarus; Kirby’s Adventure; Metroid; Super Mario Bros. 1, 2, 3 and The Lost Levels; and the first two Zelda entries (The Legend of Zelda and Zelda II: The Adventure of Link). Those originals serve as the source material for the new challenge set.
150 short tests built from tiny moments in each game
Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition assembles 150 micro-challenges that turn small in-game scenarios into competitive objectives — for example, reaching a specific door or defeating a set number of enemies. Each task isolates a brief fragment of the source game and reframes it as a scoreable challenge to beat solo or against others.
Three main play options: speedruns, local parties, and weekly global events
The package centers on a Speedrun mode where players progress through challenges and unlock additional tasks and exclusive collectible pins as they advance. For in-person gatherings there’s a Party mode that supports up to eight players locally. A World Championship mode provides online competition: every week five specific challenges are posted and rotated, letting players worldwide compete on the same set of tests.
How this relates to past Nintendo collections
The concept has clear parallels with the NES Remix series (released on Wii U, with a later Ultimate version for Nintendo 3DS), which also repurposed small segments of NES games into challenge-based gameplay. Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition repackages a similar idea under the tournament banner, emphasizing short, competitive tests drawn from classic titles.
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