Nintendo Campus Challenge 1992
'Nintendo Campus Challenge 1991 was a video game competition sponsored by Nintendo and held at nearly 60 college campuses throughout the United States.
1992 Games & Cartridge
The rules are the same as the 1991 version except with three SNES minigames. The first minigame of the competition is Super Mario World, where players must collect 50 coins (very similar to Nintendo World Championships 1990's first minigame, Super Mario Bros.). The second game is a version of F-Zero where players must complete two laps. The final minigame is Pilotwings where players must land on two targets successfully. Once time does expire, a player's score is totaled using the following formula [1][verification needed]:
- Super Mario World score
- + F-Zero score times 100
- + Pilot Wings score times 10,000
There are only two known '1992 Campus Challenge" cartridges. One was found at the same New York garage sale by Rob Walters as the 1991 cartridge. The cartridge is owned by a video game collector named Rick Bruns.[2] The second one was found in an attic of a former employee of a company who did projects for Nintendo. Nintendo sent the cartridge to the company along with some systems and other games.[3]
1992 Event Structure
The 1992 "Nintendo Campus Challenge" competition was held at 35 college campuses throughout the US.[4] The winner at each location won a Super Nintendo system with Super Mario World, F-Zero, and Pilot Wings. Consolation prizes of $100, $75, and $50 were awarded to second, third, and fourth place contestants. The winner of the whole US competition won $10,000.
Similar competitions were held in Europe and Japan in 1992. The winner of the US competition, Jeff Hanson, won against the winner of the Japanese competition, Yuichi Suyama, and became the World Champion at the 1993 Consumer Electronics Show.
Reproduction Cartridge by Retrozone
In 2011, the website retrousb.com (Retrozone)began selling Reproduction Cartridges of the Lost Grail Nintendo World Championships The reproduced cartridge is nearly identical to the original, complete with its own DIP switches. The differences are that the cartridge is Blueish Purplely Color. This can be played on any NES. It may play slow on your PAL NES system,The game comes with a nice printed manual, and a dust sleeve with the game in it.
References
- ^ "Nintendo Campus Challenge". MarioWiki.com. Retrieved 2009-07-13.
- ^ "Nintendo 1992 Campus Challenge". SNESMaps.com. Retrieved 2009-08-10.
- ^ "A 2nd Campus Challenge 92 Cartridge Found in Attic". PriceCharting.com. Retrieved 2012-10-09.
- ^ "Nintendo Campus Challenge". SNESCentral.com. Retrieved 2009-08-10.
External links
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