Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition held its first online tournament this past weekend and it turns out I'm better at Super Mario Bros. than I knew.
The newly released Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition is all about mastery. The retro microgame collection takes 13 NES classics and breaks them down into bite-sized speedrunning challenges that beg players to replay them over and over to lower their best time. That process all leads to the package’s big event, the titular Nintendo World Championships. Every week, players all submit their best times for five specific challenges and fight for a top ranking come Monday morning.
Taking on 1-1 For its maiden voyage, Nintendo World Championships started players off with some easy challenges. They’d have to get the first mushroom in Super Mario Bros. as fast as possible, complete a vertical platforming sequence in Metroid, beat a short stretch of Super Mario Bros. 2, and quickly kill some bats in The Legend of Zelda. The hardest challenge, though, was more involved: beating World 1-1 in Super Mario Bros. as fast as possible.
A powerful learning tool What’s so clever about Nintendo World Championships is that it acts as a teacher for people who have that mindset. In its single-player speedrun mode, players can complete a handful of challenges from each of its 13 games. Those aren’t random. If you look closely, you’ll realize that those are designed to teach players different skills needed to master games. In the Super Mario Bros.
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