Nintendo World Championships 1990
In the year 1990, Nintendo held a now rather famous video game competition called Nintendo World Championships as part of the Powerfest traveling video game festival. Contestants would compete against each…
Nintendo World Championships 1990 is a platform developed by Nintendo, released 31 December 1990 on Nintendo Entertainment System.
What Nintendo World Championships 1990 is
Nintendo World Championships 1990 is a platform game developed by Nintendo and released in 1990. It is available on Nintendo Entertainment System only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
In the year 1990, Nintendo held a now rather famous video game competition called Nintendo World Championships as part of the Powerfest traveling video game festival. Contestants would compete against each other in a triathlon of the NES titles Super Mario Bros, Rad Racer, and Tetris. The ROMs themselves were modified to suit the competition, and the winners would be determined by an overall score count from all three games. High placing winners took home a cash prize amongst other goodies. However, the finalists of this competition each took home their own copy of the specially made ROM on a standard NES cartridge. Another issue of the cartridge, colored in a golden tint similar to The…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Mario series
Nintendo World Championships 1990 is the 85th of 668 entries we hold in the Mario series. The next entry was Princess Toadstool's Castle Run Game in 1990.
What it launched against
Nintendo World Championships 1990 launched on 31 December 1990, within three weeks of Sengoku, A-Train and The Amazing Spider-Man.
Released around the same time: Sengoku, A-Train, The Amazing Spider-Man.
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