Nintendo Campus Challenge 1991
Nintendo Campus Challenge 1991 was a video game competition sponsored by Nintendo and held at nearly 60 college campuses throughout the United States.
Games
Like Nintendo World Championships 1990, the official event gave each player 6 minutes and 21 seconds to play in the contest, but there are three different minigames. The first minigame of the competition is to collect 25 coins in Super Mario Bros. 3. The next minigame is a version of Pin*Bot where players must get 100,000 points. The final minigame is Dr. Mario and this lasts until time expires. Once time does expire, a player's score is totaled using the following formula:
- Super Mario Bros. 3 score times 10
- + PinBot score times 1
- + Dr. Mario score times 100
Cartridge
There is only one known original copy of the 1991 Campus Challenge cartridge in existence. The game was found by a video game collector, Rob Walters, at a garage sale in New York [1] in 2006. The game sold for $14,000 in July 2009[2] After 3 months, the game was resold on eBay for $20,100.[3]
1991 Event Structure
The 1991 Campus Challenge was held at 58 college campuses and spring break locations. The event consisted of three stages. The main stage had the competition on 12 different game stations. The second stage was Nintendo Entertainment System systems with various games while the third stage had Game Boy systems. Attendees at the events could play as many times as they wanted and the highest score at the end of the day was announced the winner.
The winner from each location was flown to Disney World in Orlando over New Year's weekend in January 1992.[4] All the competitors played in the first round followed by a second round with the six highest scoring players only. The final round was a head-to-head match between Steven Lucas and Matt Sekelsky. Steven Lucas won with a score of 2,394,130.[5]
| Date | College | City |
|---|---|---|
| 11/29/1990 | Louisiana St | Baton Rouge |
| 12/3/1990 | Texas A&M | College Station |
| 12/6/1990 | Oklahoma University | Norman |
| 1/10/1991 | Consumer Electronics Show | Las Vegas |
| 1/15/1991 | Cal Poly | San Luis Obispo |
| 1/17/1991 | UC Santa Barbara | Santa Barbara |
| 1/21/1991 | UCLA | Los Angeles |
| 1/24/1991 | USC | Los Angeles |
| 1/28/1991 | Cal State Long Beach | Long Beach |
| 1/31/1991 | UC Irvine | Irvine |
| 2/4/1991 | Cal State Fullerton | Fullerton |
| 2/7/1991 | San Diego State Univ. | San Diego |
| 2/11/1991 | UNLV | Las Vegas |
| 2/14/1991 | ASU | Tempe |
| 2/18/1991 | Univ. of Arizona | Tucson |
| 2/21/1991 | Univ. of New Mexico | Albuquerque |
| 2/25/1991 | Texas Tech | Lubbock |
| 2/28/1991 | Univ. of Texas | Arlington |
| 3/4/1991 | Univ. of Texas | Austin |
| 3/7/1991 | Univ. of Houston | Houston |
| 3/11/1991 | Spring Break | South Padre Island |
| 3/19/1991 | Spring Break | Daytona Beach |
| 3/25/1991 | Spring Break | Daytona Beach |
| 4/4/1991 | Univ. of Georgia | Athens |
| 4/8/1991 | Georgia Inst. of Technology | Atlanta |
| 4/11/1991 | Auburn Univ. | Auburn |
| 4/15/1991 | Univ. of Alabama | Tuscaloosa |
| 4/18/1991 | Univ. of Tennessee | Knoxville |
| 4/22/1991 | Ohio St Univ. | Columbus |
| 4/24/1991 | Chevy Open House | GM Tech Center |
| 4/25/1991 | Univ. of Michigan | Ann Arbor |
| 4/29/1991 | Indiana Univ. | Bloomington |
| 5/2/1991 | Univ. of Wisconsin | Madison |
| 5/6/1991 | Univ. of Minnesota | Minneapolis |
| 5/9/1991 | Northwestern Univ. | Evanston |
| 8/2/1991 | Ohio State Fair | Columbus |
| 8/15/1991 | Illinois State Fair | Springfield |
| 8/22/1991-9/20/1991 | Canada Tour | Canada |
| 9/23/1991 | State Univ. of New York | Albany |
| 9/26/1991 | Univ. of Massachusetts | Amherst |
| 9/30/1991 | Boston Univ. | Boston |
| 10/3/1991 | Univ. of Rhode Island | Kingston |
| 10/7/1991 | New York Univ. | New York |
| 10/10/1991 | Rutgers Univ. | New Brunswick |
| 10/14/1991 | Univ. of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia |
| 10/17/1991 | Univ. of Maryland | College Park |
| 10/21/1991 | George Washington Univ. | Washington DC |
| 10/24/1991 | Univ. of North Carolina | Chapel Hill |
| 10/28/1991 | Clemson Univ. | Clemson |
| 11/11/1991 | Univ. of Washington | Seattle |
| 11/13/1991 | Nintendo Open House | Seattle |
| 11/18/1991 | Univ. of Oregon | Eugene |
| 11/27/1991 | CSU Sacramento | Sacramento |
| 12/2/1991 | Univ. of California Berkeley | Berkeley |
| 12/5/1991 | Stanford Univ. | Stanford |
| 12/9/1991 | San Jose State Univ. | San Jose |
| 1/4/1992 | Walt Disney World | Orlando |
Reproduction Cartridge by Retrozone
In 2008, 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
- ^ "Greatest Video Game Garage Sale". VGPC.com. Retrieved 2009-08-09.
- ^ "Nintendo Campus Challenge 1991 Price History". VGPC.com. Retrieved 2009-08-09.
- ^ "Nintendo Campus Challenge 1991 Ebay". ebay. Retrieved 2009-10-08. [dead link]
- ^ "Campus Challenge Video". VidLife.com. Retrieved 2009-07-13.
- ^ "Campus Challenge Winner Video". VidLife.com. Retrieved 2009-07-13.
External links
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