Nintendo World Championships might be my favorite multiplayer game in years, but the improvements for a potential sequel are obvious

When I first saw Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition, I didn’t think too highly of it. I thought it looked cheap, like a nostalgia-needling cash-grab. I thought that it seemed cynical. In hindsight, perhaps I am the cynical one for thinking that way: as detailed in my earlier preview of the retro package, there’s a lot more to it than first meets the eye. Criticisms I initially had, like being annoyed that the package didn’t include the full versions of the NES games it featured, qui...