Feat. Game 06.05.2005 - Nintendo World Champ. 1990

[Speedy_NES]

Amazing how this thread just turned into a thread about ultra rare games and not the NWC.

Those are the first things that come to mind when most collectors think of the NWC

-Speedy

[Izret101]

I was just wondering if we can say with 100% certainty what the top right of the label means?

I understand the SW would mean StopWatch but then there is one more set of time than there are switches.

[Speedy_NES]

I think the SW stands for Switch...each switch turned "on" adds a certain amount of time to the time limit...and no matter which switches are turned on, the cart always has a default time limit of 5 minutes to begin with...which is the 5th "time" on there...

-Speedy

[Izret101]

Makes more sense than Stop watch.
I thought each switch might have added or detracted that much time from the original.

[Speedy_NES]

it's funny that the golden NWCs didn't have this info on the label...people actually have to guess and check with those

-Speedy

[Izret101]

I don't thin the gold ones were ever meant to be played.
ust put in a glass container to show off.

[Speedy_NES]

That's true...altho in that case Nintendo might just as well have made them in 24k gold  I wonder if the gold color of the golden NWC cartridges is identical to that of the golden Zelda versions.

-Speedy

[Sureshot]

I'd rather have this cart than one of the ULTRA RARE OMG L@@K Streets of Rage 3 carts.

Who even decided SoR3 was anything like rare?

Oh and P.S., I think I read somewhere (rumour mill probably once more) that a gold NWC cart went for $6.3k

[Speedy_NES]

Yea, that's what it says in the DP guide, that a golden version has sold for as high as 6.5k$.  I remember a golden NWC selling for over 8000$ on eBay several years ago.  I'm starting to doubt my memory though, as it may have been 800$, which was already a high amount for a NES game at the time (in 1998 or 1999).  

-Speedy

[Sauza12]

I went to the world championships when it made a stop in Detroit.  To this day, I have never been so in awe of anything in my life.  

I went with one of my older sisters.  If I remember correctly (I was no older than 9 at the time), The first site that greeted you as you drove down the street was a two story tall inflated Mario.  We pulled into the parking lot and walked through the hall doors and you were immediatley hit by the glorious world of Nintendo.  No feeling in the world was like walking through those doors.  To this day, I don't think that I have ever been as excited about anything in my life.

The first thing we tried out was the Power Pad.  I don't remember what game we were playing, but my sister actually seemed as excited to play it as I was.  We walked up to the two huge pedestals they had set up for this.  Looking down off of these things, you could see the throngs of people pouring through the door and sucking in every ounce of video goodness that the gods at Nintendo could provide.  When our game started, my sister and I started running our asses off and she whipped me pretty handly.

Everything else from that point forward is pretty much a blur as I tried to see as much as possible in the thin 2 hour time period I was alotted.  The one thing that does stick out in my head was wandering over to the Gameboy area.  I came over here because there was hardly anybody in this area and it's pretty hard to fight for a chance at an NES when your 9.  The Gameboy area became my favorite area of the entire show.  They had dozens of Gameboy displays set up, each playing a different game, and there was no wait for any of these.  Some of the games that I remember playing were Castlevania, Boxxle, and Nemesis.  One game however sucked me in for the last 30 minutes that I was there, and that was Wizards and Warriors.  

I wish Nintendo or some other company would have another tour like that.  The closest that I have seen so far is Sony's Playstation tent at Ozzfest, which is not even close.