Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition

Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition is a 2024 video game developed by Nintendo EPD (Group 4) in collaboration with indieszero and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch system. It is based on the Nintendo World Championships esports competition. The game was released on July 18, 2024 digitally on the Nintendo eShop and as a physical deluxe edition in stores.

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 mode within NES Remix, there is no mode within NES Edition that uses a points system over three games.

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.
 * 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.
 * Survival Mode - In this battle royale style mode, the player faces the ghosts of players from all over the world in 3 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.
 * Party Mode - Up to 8 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.

Games
The following games are featured in this game: • 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.

Reception
On Metacritic, it has a weighted average score of 73 out of 100, based on 51 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".