Nintendo World Championships NES Edition Deluxe Set

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Sealed: the original seal is intact. Any flaw in the seal is noted here and shown in the photos. It ships in a collector's bag or a hard plastic case.

Item Description

Gold cartridges are the stuff of NES legend. After the 1990 Nintendo World Championships, a small run of gold competition carts was given away as contest prizes, and they went on to become holy grails for game collectors. Nintendo leaned straight into that legend with the Deluxe Set of Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition, a commemorative release that paired the Switch game with a gold-colored NES Game Pak and stand, art cards and pins honoring the original event.

The game itself turns 13 NES classics into a competition. Rather than playing full games, you tackle more than 150 short challenges pulled from titles such as Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros. 3, The Legend of Zelda, Metroid, Kirby's Adventure, Donkey Kong and Balloon Fight, each with a single objective and a running clock. Some last seconds, others ask you to string together a whole sequence without a slip, and the late challenges are tough enough to test players who have known these games for thirty years.

Speedrun mode is the heart of it, grading every attempt from B up to S and paying out coins that unlock more challenges, with a Classified Information feature offering tips when a run has you stuck. Party mode turns the couch into an arena, with friends trading turns on single challenges or full packs while points are tallied to crown a winner. Survival mode pits you against seven ghost players through three escalating rounds in Silver and Gold divisions, and the World Championships mode was designed around rotating online events in the spirit of the original tournament.

What makes it special is how it changes your relationship with familiar games. Studying a route through a Mario stage, shaving fractions of a second off a Zelda objective and finally landing an S rank turns well-worn 8-bit stages into something fresh. The Deluxe Set wraps that experience in a celebration of the tournament itself, which makes it the edition that belongs beside an NES collection, gold Game Pak and all, as a tribute to the moment Nintendo first turned its games into a competitive event.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB
Released
2024
Publisher
Nintendo
Players
Single player, Multiplayer
About the game

The Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition – Deluxe Set includes: Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition game card Gold-colored NES Game Pak and stand to commemorate the 1990 World Championships 13 art cards Set of 5 pins

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