Remember the movie 'The Wizard'? The movie that is basically a giant advertisement for Nintendo where a some kids travel cross country to get to a videogame tournament called Video Armageddon"? Well Nintendo basically did that in real life and it was called the Nintendo World Championships. The event has become the stuff of legends especially due to the grey and gold Nintendo World Championships carts that were given out at the event and are extremely rare and sell for crazy amounts of money. Well the Nintendo World Championships has seemingly returned and now everyone can compete.
Nintendo has announced Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition and will include 150 challenges to complete in 13 different NES games along with multiple game modes including Speedrun mode, Party mode with up to 8 players locally and online leaderboards and weekly challenges.
This looks like an updated version of NES Remix with online play and leaderboards and that is perfectly okay as that game was a lot of fun. Also the fact that this is called "NES Edition" makes me think we could get more of these in the future focusing on different Nintendo consoles. I could easily see "SNES Edition", "Gameboy Edition", "Nintendo 64 Edition" versions of this game coming in the future if this one is successful.
Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition launches on July 18th for the Switch.
