Nintendo just revealed a NES speedrunning collection inspired by an ultra-rare 1990 cartridge

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Lawrence is a contributing reporter at Engadget, specializing in our AI overlords, musical doodads and, of course, garden variety gaming and tech. To that end, Lawrence once lost badly in multiplayer Mario to Nintendo’s own Shigeru Miyamoto, who laughed gleefully as he threw him down a pit.

, and this is especially true when it comes to retro titles. Nintendo is getting in on the trend with aThis comes in the form of 150 speedrunning challenges pulled from 13 NES games, which seems mightily familiar to those cool. There will be global online leaderboards, to give it a tournament feel, and local 8 player co-op. The game will also include an automatic rewind feature, letting people try and try until they get it right.for, no joke, $175,000.

Pre-orders for the digital version are available right now on the eShop, but there is a physical edition coming. This version will include 13 art cards, five pins and a physical game cart. It’ll also include a gold commemorative NES cartridge, though it's sadly nonfunctional. Come on Nintendo! Make that thing functional so I can sell it for $175,000 in 30 years.

 

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