In 1990, Nintendo of America promoted a very special competition, the Nintendo World Championships . In this fantastic competition, participants are challenged on a NES with a special cartridge that contains all three games, Super Mario Bros., Rad Racer and the legendary Tetris. Each game had its challenge to accomplish all three challenges had to be completed within a time limit of 6 minutes and 21 seconds. The competition resembles the movie "The Wizard of Games."
The challenges differ depending on the game, Super Mario Bros (first title to which you are challenged) is started in single player with a total of 99 lives (It is probably a patched version of the game, as in the original there was a bug for a number of lives too high), the challenge was to collect a total of 50 coins. Between the first and the beginning of second level and 'already' nearly half 'of the work, as well as collecting coins also had to achieve a good score like the other games that were added in total at the end of the challenge.
The second title of the compilation was Rad Racer , here we played a game in single player with several advantages such as unlimited time to complete the challenge, and I say a little more game 'easier than the original. The soundtrack of the game seems to be different from the original title, but I'm not sure.
The last competition was the mythical title of Tetris for the NES, always on 'single player but with no apparent advantage in gameplay. The challenge for this title was to achieve the highest score 'high as possible in the remaining time of play.
At the end of the challenge as already 'said, added up all the scores were totaled in the various games. Only for the last 2 was multiplied by the score, to help 'further players to realize more and more scores' high.
My score as you can 'see from the screenshots and' far removed from the records sold for participating in the challenge, some Thor Aackerlund it covers 'a record of more than 4,000,000 points while it covers at a certain Jeff Falco' 2,800,000. The overall winner
port 'home a check for $ 10.000, a new car Geo Metro Convertible, a TV 40 "and a golden trophy of Mario.
It received a silver in all the other participants, the remaining top seven in each category instead received a check for $ 100.
Not bad even for the seeds finalists who received $ 50 in cash plus Nintendo 'a cap Journal of the competition and two pins from Super Mario.
pity that we in Italy has never organized anything like what' ...
Although passed more 'than 20 years of competition now, we can always make up for challenge with the NES emulator for our beloved. There is a ROM cartridge of the competition, is easily found on various sites of emulation.
I've played quietly on the emulator fceux with the support of the NES pad Retro link (which I have already 'spoken).
It is just because of the uniqueness' of the cartridge on which were these switches (as shown in photo) for a variety of settings, to start the game despite having used the gamepad I had to press "Enter" to Start the game.
It seems that some emulators are also able to manage these switches, to be honest I have not had the chance to try them. During the game, Start and Select buttons appear to have no utility 'apparent.
Despite the time limit of 6 minutes and 21 seconds, it seems that the cartridge for Super Mario Bros Tetris and can claim full versions. I managed to reach the level in Super Mario Bros 8-1 in a frantic race to the end without a warp zone to another before the cartridge stops me because of the game time expired.
For Tetris, I believe that if the weather does not limit the game it would probably also complete.
If you are going to try the game on ebay, as used, be aware that there may be 3 different versions of the cartridge. A classic gray seat, typical of the NES games, in a silver frame and a gold version released in only 26 copies of the estimated value of $ 17,500.
What can I say? A very expensive toy, thinking that even a game to 30 € and 'a better expenditure of these times.
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