While athletes from all over the world have been competing for days to reach the top in the Paris Olympic Games, thousands of video game fans – also from all over the world – have been competing for days to reach the best times in titles as classic as Super Mario Bros. or The Legend of Zelda. Is there some kind of retro video game Olympics being held? Not at all. It is about Nintendo World Championships: NES Editiona new game that invites users to be the fastest at the controls of great classics from the Japanese company.
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Available for Nintendo Switch, the game takes its name from a real competition that, anticipating the so-called electronic sports, was held throughout different North American cities in 1990. In that mythical tournament, participants had to demonstrate their skill in different titles and Precisely, this is what this curious game proposes: 150 timed challenges belonging to 13 titles from the iconic 8-bit console.
8 bit spirit
The game incorporates 150 timed challenges from 13 NES classics
To give an example, this past weekend, while the American sprinter Noah Lyles conquered glory at the Saint-Denis stadium, thousands of players were looking for the same thing, being the fastest to pass the classic Super Mario Bros. Although with more journalistic interest than hopes of taking the laurels, a server participated in the test and managed to beat the game in just over ten minutes. What a surprise for me – with how proud I was of my result – when I saw that I was in position 23,870 in the world ranking.
Nintendo World Championships
Great NES classics
The game incorporates small challenges from the following NES console games:
– 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
He speedrunthat is, the ability to complete a game as quickly as possible, is the backbone of this Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition. The specific challenge of passing all of Super Mario Bros. is quite extensive, but most of the tests are much shorter, a few seconds, and are designed so that the player not only feels the need to beat their own marks, but also learn and soak up the culture speedrunner. That’s what all the tools that Kyoto offer the player are for in the form of tips, tricks, videos with replays and even a rewind function.
The fastest
An invitation to enter the “speedrun” culture
In addition to the aforementioned 150 challenges, the game offers different online modalities to test what you have learned. Here they range from weekly challenges to a frenetic survival mode in the style battle royale. All this without forgetting the local multiplayer, a “Party Mode” in which up to eight players can compete in different thematic tests and in which the television screen is divided into as many small screens as there are participants. It’s crazy.
No video game company respects its legacy as much as Nintendo. Respect and monetize, of course. The thing is that, by doing both, the creators of Super Mario manage to put at the center what is most essential in the interactive medium. Playability and design are the great value of the Japanese company. One may think that returning again and again to the same classic games is not progressing, but one could precisely argue the opposite, because, even if a person has been playing these games for years with Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition You will experience them in a completely new way.
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