There are some Nintendo games we'd like to see return. However, a very particular title could well make a comeback on Nintendo Switch. Will you wait for it?
Nintendo's catalog is teeming with cult games that made the heyday of retro consoles. But, even more, there are rare titles that make them legendary. This is the case of a game which is being talked about again more than twenty years after its release after its title burst into the classifications for the Nintendo Switch.
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On many occasions, the new entries of theESRB, the North American classification body in charge of evaluating which audience to recommend this or that video game to, gives us wind of the next releases to come. This is again the case with a Switch game which will certainly delight those nostalgic for the NES.
This game will please the most nostalgic on Nintendo Switch
In fact, on May 3, a game “ for all ” named Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition appeared on the websiteESRB. The title takes us directly back to Nintendo World Championships 1990. It was an original compilation inspired by a real competition organized by the Japanese publisher. The concept was to score the most points in around 6 minutes, in challenging levels designed from cult licenses like Super Mario Bros. or Tetris.
On the social network X, insider Pyoro had teased the news the day before by posting an image of the NES cartridge. After noting that the new version of the 1990 title had been classified, he provided other answers to the questions that this “NES edition” raises in a second post. However, according to him, it would not be a simple portage…
The fact is that the ESRB presents this Nintendo World Championships as a “ compilation of challenges and 2D platform games in which players traverse different modes “. Several types of challenges will therefore be there. For example, we will have to go through a level as quickly as possible or survive for a given time.
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The presentation also evokes characters in pixel art armed with “ small swords or arrows to attack their enemies “. We can already imagine monsters from, why not, the Zelda universe… But, in this case, it would vary from the 1990 version. It suggests not an emulation for Nintendo Switch Online, but perhaps a new version?
Ambiguity is always required. Especially since Pyoro specifies that no, “ it will not be not a free game “. However, we could consider the retro games on Nintendo Switch Online to be “free” since they are freely accessible by subscription. We will therefore stay on the lookout to see more clearly about this compilation which already promises good nostalgic moments.