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System 9 years 5 months ago Posts: 74809	Who here took part in the Nintendo World Championships in 1990? It was one of the most exciting experiences of my childhood. I was reading through some of my old Nintendo Power magazines and I saw the ad. I felt all tingly inside when I saw it. I didn't make it that far in the competition, but I did get to play on the main stage (not in the throne, however). All of the kiosks were cool, too, with the soon to be released games.

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Megatron 9 years 5 months ago Posts: 110	Aww man your so lucky i wish i could of competed but seeing i was 2 in 1990 i would have done horabley and probably would have cried.... so ya did you get any thing for participating and where was it held in universal studios like in the wizard?

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System 9 years 5 months ago Posts: 74809	I remember competing in some type of Super Mario 3 thing at Six Flags...could that possibly be it?? I barely remember it, but there was a stage with screens where you had to see who could get farther or something.

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System 9 years 5 months ago Posts: 74809	Megatron wrote: Aww man your so lucky i wish i could of competed but seeing i was 2 in 1990 i would have done horabley and probably would have cried.... so ya did you get any thing for participating and where was it held in universal studios like in the wizard? Getting to the regional quarter finals: A gold sticker (which I treasured since it was the furthest that I got) Getting to the regional semi-finals: A hat or t-shirt I don't know what else came beyond this level. It was a travelling event, so it was held in several major cities: Dallas, TX Cleveland, OH Pittsburgh, PA Detroit, MI Philadelphia, PA Indianapolis, IN Boston, MA These were the ones listed in the ad, but there were many more. I was especially excited because I won two entry tickets from a local sweepstakes so my best friend and I competed. He didn't go as far as I did...

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System 9 years 5 months ago Posts: 74809	jewels1978 wrote: I remember competing in some type of Super Mario 3 thing at Six Flags...could that possibly be it?? I barely remember it, but there was a stage with screens where you had to see who could get farther or something. The competition consisted of a specially designed combination of games: Super Mario Bros. (You had to collect 50 coins) Rad Racer (You had to finish one race) Tetris (You had to get as many points until the time ran out) The whole competition lasted 5 minutes. The game cartridges are actually the most highly collectable cart for the NES. There were only a few made. Some were given away in a Nintendo Power drawing. Others were given to finalists. Here's a good site about the competition: http://www.planetnintendo.com/thewarpzone/champ.html

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nippythefish 9 years 5 months ago Posts: 2713 Globally Banned	I have to be the only guy from the nintendo generation that never beat any of the Super Mario Bros. games. Pathetic. I did beat Mega Man 3 though!

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TheNighthaw 9 years 5 months ago Posts: 69	Holy Crap! I was there at the Oakland Coliseum event, I remember it. My sister was the big Nintendo fan, I think our mom took us. In fact, my sister had one of those championships hats with the pink logo, not sure if she still has it but did for quite a few years afterward. At the event I remember playing some game on the power pad where you had to run on it, something track and field, I must have only been 6 or 7 at the time. I don't think we competed, we just kinda went. I had this toy from the event that was a Super Mario Bros. toy: it had a red plastic castle backdrop with a large vinyl Mario with a star and a goomba behind him. I wish I still had it, or parts of it anyway hehe.

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Edymnion 9 years 5 months ago Posts: 2523	I was 8 when it happened (born in late '81, so wasn't 9 yet), and lived out in the boonies. Didn't even hear about it until after it was over.

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Badkitty 9 years 5 months ago Posts: 922	I remember it well but never entered. I was going too but as much as I enjoy playing video games, I'll be the first to admit that I suck at them. I remember we would sit around and talk about what we would do if we went and won and the prizes we would get.
	I don't know about you, Miss Kitty, but I feel so much... yummier
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djdedeo0 9 years 4 months ago Posts: 59	Wow, I remember them. I never went but man I sure wanted to. I remember watching Wizard and I was like wow! I remember one part of that movie where the guy is hooking up the system and I waas like wow, I never seen a guy pull a system out of a bookbag and hook it up that fast. Of course now i see why it was so easy.
	Born In '79
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System 9 years 3 months ago Posts: 74809	There was some contest I entered in many years ago. A big Nintendo transport came to the local shopping mall and the contest was to play the original Super Mario Bros. for 3 minutes to set the highest score. Some kid got like 99999999 points in 3 minutes. I don't know how the fuhk he did that, but to this day, I still say it was rigged. There are ways to get that amount of points very quickly, but certainly not in 3 minutes. No way

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System 9 years 3 months ago Posts: 74809	Wow, I went to this at the David L. Lawerence convention center in Pittsburgh PA. I didn't compete in the championships, but I did run around all day playing old, new, and unreleased nintendo games for free. The line to play Super Mario Brothers 3 (unreleased at the time i belive) was like 3 hours long, and once you got there you had like 10 mins to play. I didnt bother, i was WAY to happy to finally be playing Tecmo World Wrestling. I remember the nobody was in the Gameboy section. I wish I still had the tshirt.

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System
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I, sadly, was only 5 when this happened
so I wasn't able to experience it for myself.
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Mystie 9 years 3 months ago Posts: 1132	I remember going to Powerfest '94 and getting to play all the games and getting a free t-shirt. Man I wish I still had that t-shirt. It was all spraypainted orange with the Nintendo logo on it. Totally old school.

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System 9 years 3 months ago Posts: 74809	Nhoj wrote: Wow, I went to this at the David L. Lawerence convention center in Pittsburgh PA. I didn't compete in the championships, but I did run around all day playing old, new, and unreleased nintendo games for free. The line to play Super Mario Brothers 3 (unreleased at the time i belive) was like 3 hours long, and once you got there you had like 10 mins to play. I didnt bother, i was WAY to happy to finally be playing Tecmo World Wrestling. I remember the nobody was in the Gameboy section. I wish I still had the tshirt. That's where I was for the competition. My favorite kiosks were P.O.W and Super Spike V'Ball

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System 9 years 3 months ago Posts: 74809	OOoo Super Spike! kaBOOOOOOOM! I tried to find an image of the actual spike in progress, but no luck you're gonna have to settle for onomatopoeia, hehe.

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System 9 years 3 months ago Posts: 74809	Sorry about the back to back posts, but I found some decent info on the Nintendo Powerfest. link has some decent pics too. Linky Edit Pittsburgh's Winners Bruce(18+) and Mike(11-) Troggdon!

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System
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I checked out that link. I didn't know that part of the competition included Super Mario 3...
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