Nintendo World Championships NES Edition VS Famicom Remix on Wii U! With Unboxing & Personal Story!

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Almost 35 years since the original event, the Nintendo World Championships are back on the Nintendo Switch! Hey, didn't they do this 11 years ago....? (Chapter Markers and more below…)

Episode information
GTV 175 “Nintendo World Championships Remixed" Season 9 Episode 15
Original Airdate: July 19, 2024
Produced July 12-19, 2024
Recorded at Butsudan Studios and edited on my 14” MacBook M1 Pro! Edited and produced with Photoshop and Final Cut Pro, all paid for with Gainful Employment™ while riding the train to work and home, back and forth, day after day, and lunch breaks too!

0:00 GTV ID: The Best in the World Where Available
0:05 Act: Remembering the NWC 1990
02:57 Act 2: Famicom Remix for Wii U
08:42 Act 3: NWC 2024 Japanese Special Edition Unboxing
15:01 Act 4: The Scorecard!

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Footage came from the NWC 90 promo tape as well as various Nintendo commercials and trailers!

Partial transcript

Debuting on July 18th, 2024 The Nintendo World Championships can be downloaded through the Nintendo e-Shop, like all Switch games, as well as a Special Edition that was announced some months before. If you were lucky enough to pre-order one of these, some goodies were included… for a price!
The NES Version, released outside of Japan, includes a replica gold cartridge, somewhat similar to the ones awarded to the winners of the 1990 Championships.
In Japan, the event from 1990 is a footnote to a footnote. The promotional campaigns say as much, ignoring the original competition and focusing on the challenges in the game, hosted by none other Arino-Kachou! The host of Game Center CX!! The original game challenge show! … And the only person I would ever concede to being better at video games than me… OK (Shin) Takahashi Meijin too!!
This campaign is running concurrently with the Family Computer 40th Anniversary celebration. That campaign features Kobayashi-san, who works in a used game store, telling stories about the glory days of the 1980s and playing old favorites with friends.

It’s a very cool idea! Having a series of YouTube videos with a bunch of old guys hanging out in an used game store “Talking About Games!” I’ve never seen that before! I can see why it’s popular!!!

In Japan, the gold cartridge… makes little sense, and is replaced with two working Family Computer wireless Switch controllers! The same ones offered to Nintendo Switch Online subscribers, and are the equivalent to the grey NES controllers sold elsewhere. Do the microphones work? Well, what do you think?
Postcards are included that feature the cover art of all 13 games included, with important information on the back. A set of 5 pins are also in the box. Pins are an award system in game, so its nice to have an tangible pin to go along with that.

The Japanese special edition is actually a good value! The whole set costs 9,800 yen! You save about 600 yen and get the swag too!
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Once best times and rankings start to appear, feel free to share your best! Oh and yeah of course the mic on controller 2 works!

GTV-Japan
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Sorry to hear about your competition, that is utter BS they didn't give you another opportunity.

I had a similar complaint with the Blockbuster Video Championships as a kid too, so I feel your pain.

Larry
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I think it's very unfair that they punished you for the bad deed that the other guy did, but for me, you are the real "The Wizard."

Indalord.
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Sadly, This game is the Closest thing we'll Ever get to an NES Compilation game.

ModernVintageTV
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Loved your personal narrative of the ‘90 event, coupled with such a diversity of real footage from it.

CarletonTorpin
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I adore all your content for multiple reasons (the well done research, the coverage of both the well known and obscure, the passion and dedication) but the personal stories really hit me on another level. 1990 was truly one of my favorite years in gaming, despite being only 6/7 it was an incredible time which can't replicated in really any fashion again due to the unique position Nintendo had in the market. I remember Mario Mania building up my hype so much that I would have dreams of how I imagined SMB3 would play, aside from the very well advertised racoon powerup I was very off base.

My copy of Nintendo World Championships showed up yesterday and while I'm super pumped to get some great nostalgia going I'm currently in the middle of attending an anime convention so no real time to fit it in between panels. Still I did see a wonderful panel on the history of Nintendo from it's founding to the current day and it got my excitement for the Championships going even harder.

Unquestionable
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Modern day E-sports really stems from these kinds of competitions. Imagine if these tournaments were as big as the ones now, and the prizes were aimed beyond the average kiddy gaming prizes. Like actual money instead of scholarships or the entire product line of Nintendo through that year. Imagine the Mario themed energy drinks you'd find near the checkout of a computer repair and goods retailer. I used to love watching the little TV shows that had similar contests to this, only on a much smaller 20 minute scale. I think one show just offered to let the winner run around in a fake video store, grabbing as many game cart boxes as you could. And as a kid, that seems like it was good enough.

mightyfilm
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I personally would've preferred a NES Remix port. I loved some of the wacky challenges in Remix that are absent here. I would've been sooo angry at that kid that messed up your NES World Championship run if that were me in your shoes lol

FeralInferno
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11:52 Holy crap, even licensed games like Ghostbusters are listed?! That is awesome 👌

Morgil
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2:06 lol, I think we all were there at one point another. I remember my first job at Subway Sandwiches - getting that check and realizing they took over $75 of it (my state taxes were rough). I was like _"Hey! You just stole like 9 hours of my work! Give it back!"_ lmao. 🤣

mr.selfimprovement
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At my age now, I hate timers in games. And I love game genie and cheat codes.

Sarcophagus
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A fun fact about the NWC, prior to it, in Canada Nintendo held the Nintendo Challenge Championship in 1989 and 1990.

MaidenHell
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@10:18 The Microphone works in the versions sold with the Switch online membership, so I would expect them to also work here. I imported the pair 5+ years ago just to have the option to try the Japanese version of Zelda with the microphone.

Sappharad
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Nintendo created a college counterpart to the original Nintendo World Championships 1990:
the Nintendo Campus Challenge 1991, where college students from colleges and universities across the United States competed.
The NCC contestants had to compete in Super Mario Bros. 3, Pin-Bot and Dr. Mario...

Justin-Hill-
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The challenges in the new NWC NES Edition video game for the Nintendo Switch feel so vanilla when compared to the remixed challenges found in NES Remix...

Justin-Hill-
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Lol taxes taken out of the pay check. When I was young all work was under the table

onlygameguru
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The Switch can, in fact, connect 8 controllers (otherwise 8-player Smash Bros wouldn't have existed as far back as the Wii U). Obviously each controller only has 4 LEDs to show their virtual port number, so once you get to virtual port #5, you'll start seeing different permutations of two LEDs being lit at once.

PhirePhlame
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I would love more games like this, dlc, or options for online play etc. for this game

Thundervolt
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Those gamecentre cx videos seem to be on the nintendo switch news section as well where they usually play newly released switch games.

I think it's tied to the nintendo switch Japanese news channel.

Mubashar_Asghar
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Ya know, I never had a WiiU or NES Remix (even though I have my 3DS), so I'll be interested in trying out NWC NES Edition.

mhmrules