Nintendo World Championships NES Edition for Switch announced: date, prices and details

Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition comes to Switch in July. All the details about its editions, reservations, game modes and more.

After the leaks, the announcement has arrived. Nintendo just announced Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition for Switch, a game that rescues the spirit of the 90s video game tournament with a compilation of NES classics, tons of challenges and a special edition that will arrive on July 18 of this year.

A title that bathes in the nostalgia of the Nintendo tournaments from the 90s, that were revived at E3 in 2015 and 2017. Their proposal is simple: you have 150+ speed challenges and quizzes You beat in some of the best classic Nintendo games, and through different game modes.

These are all the nintendo games who star in the tests of Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition:

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.

On the other hand, these are the game modes What is available:

Speedrun mode (1 player) – Speed trials where you beat your own records to unlock new challenges and exclusive pins.
Party Mode (Up to 8 players locally) – Compete with friends or family in NES game tests.
World Championship Mode (Online) – Five challenges (that change weekly) in which to achieve the best times to sneak to the top of the world rankings.

Editions of Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition for Switch – Prices and contents

Nintendo has announced two editions of Nintendo World Championships NES Edition. A standard one at a reduced price that costs less than €30 and is limited to the game, and one full of extras that amounts to €60 and is in physical format, although it loses out compared to the Japanese edition. Below are all the details:

Nintendo World Championships: NES Standard Edition

The Nintendo World Championships Standard Edition: NES Edition for Nintendo Switch is priced at 29.99 € ($29.99 in America) and is only available in digital format. Its download size is about 500MB approximately.

There doesn’t seem to be any possibility of getting the game in physical format without purchasing the deluxe edition.although this includes a series of nostalgic extras that will appeal to more than one.

Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition Deluxe Set

The Nintendo World Championships NES Edition Deluxe Edition it has a price of €59.99 ($59.99 in America), includes a series of very nostalgic bonuses and is the only one that contains the physical game. To get it, you have to register in the form enabled by My Nintendo Store. You have it available at this link: