Nintendo World Championships???

[K.C.]

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The original of this bad boy goes for between $15,000-$20,000 dollars because there's only 116 in existence (26 gold copies, 90 gray copies).

Now there are a bunch of reproductions floating around, but the authentic ones have the DPI switch in the top left corner.


As the story goes, Nintendo Power tried to create a tournament similar to the movie Wizard called the Nintendo World Championships. They created this special game in which you have six minutes and 21 seconds to complete a Super Mario Bros. mini game, a Rad Racer mini game, and a Tetris sprint to accumulate points. The tournament took place in 1990


Never heard this story until today.

[midwestjeff]

I always dreamed of either an R.B.I. tournament or a Baseball Simulator 1.000 tournament as a kid. I was unbeatable. I kept my own stats in R.B.I. before I got B.S. 1.000. It would have been my Mt. Everest. Instead I faded into obscurity, never getting to share my awesomeness with the outside world. On the plus side, I started getting laid eventually and Nintendo tournaments weren't very high on the daydream list.
I also dominated the original Golf game. I forgot about it until last night when I found it on VirtualNes. I shot a +2 on my third game. The first two were awful. Fuck this, I'm going to go play now.

[K.C.]

I always dreamed of either an R.B.I. tournament or a Baseball Simulator 1.000 tournament as a kid. I was unbeatable. I kept my own stats in R.B.I. before I got B.S. 1.000. It would have been my Mt. Everest. Instead I faded into obscurity, never getting to share my awesomeness with the outside world. On the plus side, I started getting laid eventually and Nintendo tournaments weren't very high on the daydream list.
I also dominated the original Golf game. I forgot about it until last night when I found it on VirtualNes. I shot a +2 on my third game. The first two were awful. Fuck this, I'm going to go play now.

I actually think I'm going to go by the Farmer's Market down here this weekend and see if anyone there is still selling the cartridges fairly cheap.

I broke out my NES console yesterday and was playing some Castlevania III today...great game, but tough in some spots.

Everything works surprisingly well with my console, especially when I clean the cartridges with a q-tip and some rubbing alcohol before hand.

I'd look at getting one of the top-loading NES's, but those things still cost like $100 online.

[JustJon]

The original of this bad boy goes for between $15,000-$20,000 dollars because there's only 116 in existence (26 gold copies, 90 gray copies).

Now there are a bunch of reproductions floating around, but the authentic ones have the DPI switch in the top left corner.


As the story goes, Nintendo Power tried to create a tournament similar to the movie Wizard called the Nintendo World Championships. They created this special game in which you have six minutes and 21 seconds to complete a Super Mario Bros. mini game, a Rad Racer mini game, and a Tetris sprint to accumulate points. The tournament took place in 1990


Never heard this story until today.

The story is true. They had planned multiple tournaments, but only held one, so not all of the cartridges were given out to the general public.

[underdog]

I always dreamed of either an R.B.I. tournament or a Baseball Simulator 1.000 tournament as a kid. I was unbeatable. I kept my own stats in R.B.I. before I got B.S. 1.000. It would have been my Mt. Everest. Instead I faded into obscurity, never getting to share my awesomeness with the outside world. On the plus side, I started getting laid eventually and Nintendo tournaments weren't very high on the daydream list.
I also dominated the original Golf game. I forgot about it until last night when I found it on VirtualNes. I shot a +2 on my third game. The first two were awful. Fuck this, I'm going to go play now.

I loved RBI Baseball. I still have a working cartridge of it.

I've been waiting for them to release it on Virtual Console.

[Snoogans]

I loved RBI Baseball. I still have a working cartridge of it.

I've been waiting for them to release it on Virtual Console.

Nintendo was all about Tecmo Bowl and Shinobi

[DolaMight]

I don't know about all that but that kid from the wizard who had the power glove in the special case got mad pussy back in the day.

[Snoogans]

I don't know about all that but that kid from the wizard who had the power glove in the special case got mad pussy back in the day.

that movie sucked. Fuck Fred Savage. Or Ben. I never remember which is which

[DolaMight]

Nintendo was all about Tecmo Bowl and Shinobi

Shinobi was sega master system. Shinobi rules. So did that micheal jackson moonwalker game.

[underdog]

Nintendo was all about Tecmo Bowl and Shinobi

They released the Techmo Bowl without Bo Jackson in it on VC. I'm waiting for them to release the good one.

[DolaMight]

that movie sucked. Fuck Fred Savage. Or Ben. I never remember which is which

Maybe but Randy Savage definatley ruled.

[Snoogans]

Shinobi was sega master system. Shinobi rules. So did that micheal jackson moonwalker game.

they had shinobi on NES. It was a black cartridge the same as RBI baseball

[TheMojoPin]

Shinobi was sega master system. Shinobi rules. So did that micheal jackson moonwalker game.

Maybe he meant Ninja Gaiden?

[Snoogans]

Maybe he meant Ninja Gaiden?

no but that kicked ass too

[DolaMight]

they had shinobi on NES. It was a black cartridge the same as RBI baseball

I thought you meant Ninja Gaiden.... I now remember NES did have the one arcade shinobi then it was sega from then on out.
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[Snoogans]

Ninja Gaiden ruled but Ninja Gaiden 2 was worse then Caddyshack 2

[Snoogans]

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[DolaMight]

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that blue guy's about to overheat and pull over.

[K.C.]

I don't know about all that but that kid from the wizard who had the power glove in the special case got mad pussy back in the day.

I like the Angry Nintendo Nerd's review of the Power Glove....in fact his whole series of videos is weird....it comes across as ridiculously stupid since it's just a Nintendo dork cursing at games....but the more you watch, it oddly becomes kind of funny.

<a href="http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=33473681">The Power Glove by the Angry Nintendo Nerd</a><br><embed src="http://lads.myspace.com/videos/vplayer.swf" flashvars="m=33473681&v=2&type=video" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="430" height="346"></embed>

[angrymissy]

Ghosts and Goblins FTW. That game is fucking impossible. My whole family played it back in the day trying to get past level 3. I downloaded it on VC and got to the same point that I could not pass before. My sister downloaded it all smuglike, thinking she was older now and it would be easier, and got to level 2.

[Mullenax]

Confession: I belonged to an NES message board under the name "Eight Bits of Love". I can beat River City Ransom, Wizards -n- Warriors, and Double Dragon with one hand, and I held monthly Pro Wrestling Tournaments in the dorm.<p>
Maybe this belongs in "bragging about stupid shit" thread...
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[kevcala]

I actually completed in the Nintendo World Championships at Giants Stadium. You paid to get in and could enter as many times as you want.

I entered once and the put me on stage, just like in the Wizard. When the big screen showed my screen on it, I was sucking, so they took it off real fast.

I tried again and qualified for the semi finals and got to come back the next day and compete.

I was actually doing pretty well, until it got to the Tetris part. I remember my friend was behind the ropes watching me compete and he cheered for me. I looked back at him and on my next move on Tetris, I pulled down a block 1 space too far to the right and fucked myself. My 13 y.o. brain cracked and I couldn't recover. If Michael Cane ever offers me a Split Milk, I'm sure as shit going back to that Tetris move.

The funniest part to me was the night before the semis, I told my parents I was going out and my father said to me, "Don't you think you should be practicing?" It ended up in a fight, I kid you not, a teenager fighting with his father because he didn't want to practice his Nintendo.