We’ll fix it in the edit.
Tiny pieces, quite often.
When it comes to Nintendo World Championships, the unwieldy name is easily the lengthiest single thing about it.
For the rest of the game, it’s, what, 10 seconds, 50 at a push?
This is Nintendo doing TikTok, Nintendo in the editing suite.
And it’s fascinating.
Nintendo World Championship: NES Edition
Nintendo World Championship is all about speedrunning.
The game takes 13 old Nintendo classics and slices them down to form around 150 one-shot challenges.
Ice Climber has challenges about reaching certain floors.
Metroid…
Two things are obvious.
Firstly, I think the shorter challenges are by far the best.
With games exclusively from the 8-bit era, Nintendo World Championship is living in a world of playful immediacy.
To see a Mario screen is to know what you have to do.
Same for Zelda, Metroid, ExciteBike.
you’re free to see the whole world, not just a first-person slice of it.
You don’t need to worry about camera controls or twin sticks.
Gosh, my life used to be simple.
Even as I bang out that, I wonder if I’m entirely correct, though.
These games seem more immediate to me, but I’m extremely old by this point.
Nintendo World Championship breaks down into four main elements, I think.
Then there’s party mode.
And it’s funny, that thought about Sony or Microsoft doing the same.
Make a river inDorfromantik!
Kill a shopkeeper inSpelunky!
