Nintendo Download: Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition is Available Now!

Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition is available now. (Graphic: Business Wire)

REDMOND, Wash.--()--This week’s Nintendo Download includes the following content:

  • Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch:
    • Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition – Bring the Nintendo World Championships straight to your living room, or on the go! Test your speedrunning skills across more than 150 challenging moments from 13 classic NES games* including Super Mario Bros., Kirby’s Adventure and so much more! Compete against the ghost data of players from around the world online**, challenge your friends on the couch*** or try to see how far you can push your personal bests. Do you have what it takes to be a champion? The Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition game is available now.
    • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate – The heroic Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles need to fend off the Foot Clan and rescue their kidnapped master in their first roguelike adventure! Travel through reality-bending portals where every level has the potential to change with randomized power-ups, changing room layouts and boss modifiers. Permanently upgrade and strengthen your Turtle powers by spending in-game currency on ability-enhancing artifacts and use your increased skills to take on more challenging runs. Explore iconic New York City locations solo or jump online** with up to three other players in drop-in/drop-out co-op play. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate is available now.
    • Darkest Dungeon II – Form a party, board your stagecoach and set off across the decaying landscape on a last gasp quest to avert an apocalypse in this roguelike road trip of the damned. Choose from 12 playable heroes and journey across five campaigns, each featuring its own terrifying challenges to face. Play the game with touchscreen controls, customize your difficulty with thematic modifiers, discover 10 companion pets that confer various bonuses onto you and explore an extensive progression hub called The Altar of Hope. In addition to the base game, The Binding Blade DLC – featuring two new heroes, a special questline and more – will also be available as part of the Oblivion Edition. Darkest Dungeon II is available now.
    • SCHiM SCHiM is a game about jumping from shadow to shadow, while interacting with a relaxing and lively environment. A “schim” is the soul and spirit of an object, thing or living being. Everything in the world has one. A schim should never be separated from their thing! In SCHiM, you play as a schim separated from their human. Manipulate and jump through shadows to reunite with your human companion. SCHiM is available today!
    • ACE COMBAT 7: SKIES UNKNOWN DELUXE EDITION Become an ace pilot and take to the skies in the ultimate flight and combat simulator series: ACE COMBAT. Soar through the air with 360 degrees of freedom, relying on your flying and fighting instincts to take down the enemy, overcome tense situations and become the hero. The latest installment includes three original aircraft sets and three SP Missions, Music Player Mode and more. ACE COMBAT 7: SKIES UNKNOWN DELUXE EDITION is available now.
  • Game Boy Advance – Nintendo Switch Online**
    • Densetsu no Starfy – No sleep ’til Pufftop! A sudden storm has caused Starfy, prince of the floating sky kingdom Pufftop, to plummet from his lofty home into the sea below. Luckily, he is rescued by an old lobster named Lobber who sets the adorable hero on a grand journey back to Pufftop. The way home is full of dangers, though, and Starfy will need to employ a variety of abilities – including Star Spin and Glide – and vehicles like the mighty Mole Tank, to overcome the challenges that await. The legend begins here!
    • Densetsu no Starfy 2 – Help Starfy save his mother and bring peace back to Pufftop Kingdom in this action-packed sequel! Ogura – the villain of the first game – is back to seek vengeance against Starfy, and this time he has Mama Star in his sights. The revenge-driven ruffian ransacks Pufftop and steals away Starfy’s mother in the ensuing kerfuffle, leaving Starfy no choice but to dive head-first into his next adventure. With his best friend Moe in tow and challenges aplenty to face, Starfy has his work cut out for him.
    • Densetsu no Starfy 3 – Starfy’s sister Starly joins him and Moe for their third adventure on Game Boy Advance! Discover the truth behind the mysterious villain that’s been pulling Ogura’s strings all this time and put a stop to their nefarious plans once and for all. Spin and float with the starry siblings and save the day across action-filled stages with the help of familiar friends, including … Wario?! You read that right: Wario crosses paths with Starfy and Starly to help them through the Undersea Ruins in Stage 8 (while hunting for treasure, of course), so be sure to check it out. Go, Starfy and Starly, go!

Activities:

  • Show Off Your Championship Spirit in Style! Inspired by the Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition game, get a totally rad trucker hat as a physical reward from My Nintendo. My Nintendo members can redeem 1200 My Nintendo Platinum Points**** to get this reward! For more information, check out https://my.nintendo.com/news/5ebf7a72fcd827d6.

Nintendo eShop Sales on Nintendo Switch:

Also new this week in Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch:

* NES games are not included in their entirety.

** Any Nintendo Switch Online membership (sold separately) and Nintendo Account required for online features. Paid Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack required to play the Game Boy Advance – Nintendo Switch Online collection of games. Membership auto-renews after initial term at the then-current price unless cancelled. Not available in all countries. The Nintendo Account User Agreement, including the Purchase and Subscription terms, apply. nintendo.com/switch/online

*** Additional accessories may be required for multiplayer mode. Sold separately.

**** A Nintendo Account is required to receive and redeem points. Terms apply (https://accounts.nintendo.com/term_point).

Nintendo Switch Online is a paid membership service that allows members to team up or face off online in compatible Nintendo Switch games, such as Splatoon 3, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Nintendo Switch Sports and Super Mario Bros. Wonder. Members also enjoy a curated library of classic NES, Super NES and Game Boy games, including Super Mario Bros. 3, Super Metroid, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past and Kirby’s Dream Land, among many others. To find out more about the benefits that come with Nintendo Switch Online, to view membership options and to learn about a free seven-day trial for new users, visit https://www.nintendo.com/switch/online/.

With a Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack membership, players get access to even more benefits, including a library of Nintendo 64 games with added online play for up to four players (additional accessories may be required for multiplayer mode; sold separately), a library of select Game Boy Advance games, Animal Crossing: New Horizons - Happy Home Paradise DLC, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – Booster Course Pass DLC, Splatoon 2: Octo Expansion DLC (full version of game required to use DLC for that game; sold separately) and retro SEGA Genesis games.

Nintendo eShop is a cash-based service that features a wide variety of content, including new and classic games, applications and demos. Users can add money to their account balances by using a credit card or purchasing a Nintendo eShop Card at a retail store and entering the code from the card. All funds from one card must be loaded in Nintendo eShop on the Nintendo Switch family of systems.

Customers in the U.S. and Canada ages 18 and older can also link a PayPal account to their Nintendo Account to purchase digital games and content for the Nintendo Switch family of systems both on-device and from the Nintendo website.

My Nintendo members can earn Gold Points on eligible digital purchases. Already have Gold Points? Redeem them toward your next digital purchase of Nintendo Switch games and DLC on Nintendo eShop. Visit https://my.nintendo.com/reward_categories for more details.

Remember that the Nintendo Switch features parental controls that let adults manage some of the content their children can access. Nintendo Switch players who register a Nintendo Account gain access to free-to-start games and free game demos from Nintendo eShop, and also get the latest news and information direct from Nintendo. For more information about parental controls on Nintendo Switch and other features, visit https://play.nintendo.com/parents/tools-for-parents/parental-controls/ and https://www.nintendo.com/switch/.

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Eddie Garcia
Golin
213-335-5536
egarcia@golin.com

Justin Aclin
Golin
212-373-6004
jaclin@golin.com