Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition's lack of strong competitive modes makes for a fun but lacking introduction to video game speedrunning.
Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition MSRP $30.00 Score Details “ Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition will teach you the thrill of speedrunning, but it's only a tease.” Pros Cons My hands are dripping with sweat. I’m not sure if it’s from the 90-degree summer heat or if that’s just the adrenaline coursing through my veins. I’m determined to set a personal record.
The joys of speed Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition has a bit of a misleading title. You might think that you’re getting a faithful re-creation of the actual Nintendo World Championships series, a live competition that first took place in 1990. That’s not really the case. The real event had players competing to set high scores in modified versions of Super Mario Bros., Rad Racer, and Tetris playing off a special NES cartridge built for the event.
Before I knew it, I’d spent over 15 hours almost exclusively playing Speedrun mode. I was driven to perfect my time in as many games as possible as I racked up S-ranks and unlocked some badges and icons to display on my online profile. I became a master of Donkey Kong in a few days, getting as close to a perfect time as possible on most of its challenges. Even when it felt like I’d exhausted that loop, I was still picking up my Switch multiple times a day and shaving milliseconds off challenges.
To make matters worse, Nintendo World Championships uses a bizarre split-screen solution that I can’t wrap my head around. Each screen appears as a tiny square with tons of empty space around it. When my friends first saw how tiny our screens were in five-player mode, one person volunteered to sit out so we could get a proper four-quadrant split that gave us bigger screens. Instead, our tiny squares were placed in a straight line that ran from edge to edge of the TV.
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