Nintendo World Championships 1990
| Nintendo World Championships 1990 | |
|---|---|
| Studio | Nintendo |
| Publisher | none |
| Erstveröffent- lichung |
 1990 |
| platform | NES |
| genre | Jump 'n' run , racing game and puzzle |
| Game mode | Single player , second controller starts the game |
| control | NES controller |
| medium | Plug-in module |
| language | English |
| information | Only 116 modules were issued |
Nintendo World Championships 1990 is one of the rarest games for the Nintendo - game console NES and was a barred from Nintendo 1990 competition, which in the film The Wizard was ajar.
content
The cartridge contains versions of the games Super Mario Bros. and Rad Racer, as well as the NES version of Tetris . The aim of the competition was to score 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 a route developed especially for this module without time restrictions. Most recently, a Tetris endless game started, in which an early end of the game was possible according to the usual Tetris rules. A screen is displayed for 20 seconds between games announcing the next game.
When the total playing time is reached, the points from Super Mario Bros. are added to the ten times the points from Rad Racer and 25 times the points from Tetris to determine the final score.
The use of the DIP switches attached to the module enables the playing time to be changed in several steps from five minutes to nine minutes and 42 seconds.
PowerFest 1990
The PowerFest was divided into three age groups (11-, 12-17, 18+ years), in which three prizes were awarded to the best players in addition to the modules for each of the 30 finalists. Most of the players tried to get to Tetris as quickly as possible and get as many points as possible there. However, some players used a trick on Super Mario Bros. to get a lot of points there. Average players scored between 300,000 and 500,000 points, while players using the trick scored more points. Nevertheless, the PowerFest was won by players who got to Tetris as quickly as possible.
Whoever reached a certain number of points qualified for the quarter-finals. The winners there were invited to the semi-finals. Seven players in each age group competed against each other, with the best player being invited to the final.
One point of criticism was that the players could participate in several competitions. The competitions took place in several cities and players could participate in each city, regardless of whether they had already entered another city. The second point of criticism was that the players had to participate standing.
The names of 21 of the 90 finalists have been handed down. The original plan was for the finale to take place at Universal Studios , Florida, but the location was moved to Hollywood Universal Studios at short notice . In September and October 1990, Nintendo sent letters to the finalists stating this. 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 form 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 PowerFest 1990.
In 2015 Nintendo plans to hold a follow-up competition, the Nintendo World Championships 2015 .
rarity
The plug-in modules were produced in an edition of 116 copies that were not commercially available. They were only given to people who showed outstanding performance at the Nintendo PowerFest 1990 or a Nintendo Power competition . 90 gray copies were given to the finalists of the PowerFest, while 25 silver copies were awarded as second prizes and a gold copy as first prize in the Nintendo Power competition.
More than $ 400 was paid for the modules in private auctions. At an eBay auction in November 2007, a module with a buy-it-now price of $ 12,000 was listed and sold. A myebid auction in which a father sold the 24 games his son, who died in Iraq, sold with a starting bid of US $ 24, including an NWC module, fetched US $ 21,400. In January 2014, a module was sold at an eBay auction for almost the record price of US $ 99,902. After the auction closed, the highest bidder withdrew his offer, whereupon the seller is now looking for serious buyers.
The SNES module Nintendo PowerFest 1994 is even rarer, as only two of the original 32 copies have survived.
Various dealers offer the production of so-called repro modules without an official license , which however are of no collector value and also represent copyright infringements .
Individual references and sources
- ↑ Technical details , accessed on November 11, 2012
- ^ Official notice from Nintendo , accessed May 13, 2015
- ↑ krone.at: Nintendo game achieves 12,000 dollars on eBay ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on November 28, 2007)
- ↑ chip.de: Nintendo game for $ 12,000 on eBay ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Article of November 26, 2007, accessed November 28, 2007)
- ↑ http://www.snesmaps.com/maps/NintendoPowerFest94/NWCgoldAuction.pdf (PDF file)
- ↑ destructoid.com: [1] (article from January 26, 2014).
- ↑ Nintendo PowerFest 94 Competition - Map Selection. Retrieved February 15, 2020 .
