Nintendo World Championships
Nintendo World Championships 1990 is the name of one of the rarest games for the Nintendo NES game console and was the name of a Nintendo competition held in 1990, which was inspired by the film Joy Stick Heroes.
Content
The plug-in module contains versions of the games Super Mario Bros. and Rad Racer, and the NES version of Tetris. The goal was the competition to make as many points as possible within 6:21 minutes. In the first game, a modified version of Mario Bros. with 99 lives, the player had to collect 50 coins. This was followed by Rad Racer, where the player had to drive through without time limitation developed specifically for this module route. Recently launched a Tetris - endless game, in which, after the usual rules Tetris game ending was possible. Between games, a screen will be displayed for 20 seconds each, announcing the next game.
If the total playing time is reached, the points from Super Mario Bros. to ten times the points from Rad Racer and 25 times the points of Tetris are added together to determine the final score.
The use of the module attached to the DIP switch enables to change, the playing time in a number of steps from five minutes to nine minutes and 42 seconds.
Power Festival 1990
The power was fixed in three age groups ( 11 -, 12-17, 18 years) divided, were in which in addition to the modules for each 30 finalists and three prizes for the best player award. Most players tried as soon as possible to arrive at Tetris and there to reach as many points. Some players, however, turned to a trick in Super Mario Bros. to get there on many points. Average players reached 300000-500000 points, while players reached more points with the trick. Nevertheless, the hard power of players has been obtained, which reached as quickly as possible to Tetris.
Who reached a certain number of points, qualified for the quarter-finals. The local winners were invited to the semi-finals. There were seven players in each age group will compete against each other, there being the best player was invited to the finals.
One criticism was that the players were able to participate in several competitions. The competitions were held in several cities and in each city, players could participate, regardless of whether they had already participated in another city. The second criticism was that the players had to attend standing.
The names of 21 of the 90 finalists have survived. Originally it was planned that the finals at Universal Studios should take place in Florida, but the place was moved quickly to the Universal Studios Hollywood. In September and October 1990 sent Nintendo Letters to the finalists, where this has been notified. The final itself took place in December 1990. Each finalist received a copy of the cartridge as well as a copy of the " Nintendo World Championship Insider's Guide " and an order for a Nintendo - World - Championships - patch and a plush figure of Mario or Luigi.
Jeff Hanson (11 - ), Thor Aackerlund (12-17 ) and Bo Whiteman (18 ) won the final of the Nintendo Power Festival 1990.
Rarity
The plug-in modules was produced in an edition of 116 copies, which were not commercially available. They were issued only to persons who have shown outstanding achievement in the context of Nintendo Power Festival in 1990 or at a competition of Nintendo Power. 90 gray units were awarded to the finalists of hard power, while 25 gold pieces were awarded as second prizes and a golden copy of the first prize in the competition of Nintendo Power.
In private auctions more than 400 U.S. dollars were paid for the modules. In an eBay auction in November 2007, a module was set at a fixed price sale price of $ 12,000 and sold. A myebid auction, in which a father sold the 24 games of his deceased son in Iraq with a starting bid of $ 24, including a NWC module, scored 21,400 U.S. dollars. In January 2014, a module was almost auctioned off for the record price of 99,902 U.S. dollars in an eBay auction. After Autkionsschluss the highest bidder withdrew its offer after which the provider is now looking for serious candidates.
The SNES module Nintendo Power Fest is still rare in 1994, as obtained from this, only two of the original 32 copies.
Different dealers offer without official license to produce so-called repro - modules, but which have no value to collectors and beyond constitute copyright infringement.
References and sources
- Http://www.neswarpzone.com/champ.html
- Http://www.atarihq.com/tsr/nes/nwc/nwc.html
- Computer game 1990
- NES game
- USK without classification