{"id":24786,"date":"2024-08-09T00:01:39","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T00:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=24786"},"modified":"2024-07-23T14:03:55","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T14:03:55","slug":"nintendo-world-championships-nes-edition-deluxe-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/09\/nintendo-world-championships-nes-edition-deluxe-set\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo World Championships NES Edition Deluxe Set"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Recently Nintendo released Nintendo World Championships NES Edition on the Switch.\u00a0 It\u2019s more or less very similar to the NES Remix games on the Wii U and 3DS, except with more of a focus on speedrunning.\u00a0 I was able to get the Deluxe Set, so I wanted to show off what\u2019s in there.\u00a0 Plus this\u2019ll be a little review of the game, too.\u00a0 I was really glad to get the Deluxe Set of this game because I attended the first Nintendo World Championships back in 1990 when it was in Dallas.\u00a0 I even wrote an article about it almost ten years ago<\/strong><\/a>, and I encourage you to follow the link and read that one, too, so you\u2019ll know just how special that was to me.\u00a0 And after you\u2019ve read that, come back here and check out what\u2019s in the Deluxe Set of the Nintendo World Championships NES Edition!<\/p>\n

First of all, here\u2019s a bigger picture of the box.<\/p>\n

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And here\u2019s the back of the box.<\/p>\n

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One of the cool things this set comes with is a replica of a gold NES cartridge of the Nintendo World Championships 1990.\u00a0 I love how it even includes one of the old NES game sleeves.\u00a0 Remember those?\u00a0 The cartridges that were used in the competition are sought after by collectors, and Nintendo Power even had contests where you could win gold versions of these cartridges, so this was pretty neat.\u00a0 It even comes with a little stand.<\/p>\n

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I do want to emphasize that this is just a replica.\u00a0 I took a picture of the bottom so you can see there are no circuit connectors or anything like that.<\/p>\n

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On the back of the cartridge are these little symbols.\u00a0 I think they are sprites representing the games in this title, but it was so shiny and glary that it was kind of hard to see them.\u00a0 But I took a picture of them anyway.<\/p>\n

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In the game you can complete challenges where you do certain things in NES games as quickly as you can.\u00a0 It might be getting the first mushroom in Super Mario Bros., getting the sword in The Legend of Zelda, or harder things like finishing the first three stages of Donkey Kong or beating the first Zelda dungeon.\u00a0 When you get an A rank or above in these activities, you earn a virtual pin.\u00a0 The Deluxe set comes with actual versions of some of those pins, so that was neat.<\/p>\n

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The thirteen games you can do competitions on are as follows:<\/p>\n

Balloon Fight<\/p>\n

Donkey Kong<\/p>\n

Excitebike<\/p>\n

Ice Climber<\/p>\n

Kid Icarus<\/p>\n

Kirby\u2019s Adventure<\/p>\n

Metroid<\/p>\n

Super Mario Bros. 1, 2, 3, and Lost Levels<\/p>\n

The Legend of Zelda and Zelda II: The Adventure of Link<\/p>\n

The Deluxe Set comes with \u201cart cards\u201d representing the thirteen games on this collection.\u00a0 The front of the cards has the US box arts from those titles.<\/p>\n

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The back of the cards has sprites from the games.<\/p>\n

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And last but not least, the set comes with the game itself.<\/p>\n

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When you first play the game, you have to set up a profile.\u00a0 You can pick sprites from the various games on here, and buy more with points you earn by playing.\u00a0 You can also pick your favorite NES game for everyone to see.\u00a0 This is cool because the list includes nearly every officially released NES title!\u00a0 I don\u2019t think I have a favorite NES game, but here I chose Chip N Dale\u2019s Rescue Rangers because I thought it was cool that was on here.<\/p>\n

In single player, you can do Speedrunner Mode where you do the challenges separately.\u00a0 This is where you earn the pins.\u00a0 There\u2019s also a mode where you compete in weekly challenges against other players.\u00a0 And there\u2019s a mode where you compete against eight other players\u2019 ghost data at the same time.\u00a0 There is also a Party Mode where up to eight players can do a local competition!\u00a0 I think it’s neat how in some of the modes, when you play you can hear cheers in the background like you’re at a real competition.<\/p>\n

I do wish this game included more titles, and I can understand other peoples\u2019 problems like having to play the challenges by Nintendo\u2019s rules (the game rewinds if you stray from their intended path).\u00a0 And they\u2019re basically just repackaging NES games you\u2019ve already probably bought multiple times by now.\u00a0 Also it would’ve been neat if you could play the actual 1990 competition games, but then Nintendo would’ve had to get the license to use Rad Racer from Square and Tetris I guess. And just know that when you are playing, you can’t pause the game for some reason.\u00a0 But it is a neat new way to play old games.\u00a0 I\u2019m not really into the speedrunning scene, but I did find this game more addicting than I thought it would be.\u00a0 Not as good as NES Remix, but still neat.\u00a0 Maybe later they\u2019ll do a SNES Remix or a SNES Edition of this game!\u00a0 Anyway, that\u2019s all for now, later!\u00a0 –Cary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently Nintendo released Nintendo World Championships NES Edition on the Switch.\u00a0 It\u2019s more or less very similar to the NES Remix games on the Wii U and 3DS, except with more of a focus on speedrunning.\u00a0 I was able to get the Deluxe Set, so I wanted to show off what\u2019s in there.\u00a0 Plus this\u2019ll […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24786"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24790,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24786\/revisions\/24790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}