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This week it's rizz's pick.
This time it's not a game to discuss about, but a very rare cartridge.

In 1990 Nintendo held a special video game competition. The competition dubbed Nintendo World Championship was based on scoring points in three Nintendo Entertainment System games within a timelimit of six minutes 21 seconds. The competition was based on the movie The Wizard.
For the competition 116 special game cartridges were manufactured. 90 of these copies exist in a grey cartridge and were given out to semi-finalists of the 1990 NWC. 26 of these cartridges are "gold" - like the Legend of Zelda cartridge - and were given out to the top winners.
The Nintendo World Championship 1990 game cartridge is considered to be the rarest and most valuable NES cartridge released, promo cartridges aside.




This is considered the "Holy Grail" of many (if not all) hardcore collectors. (i.e. maniacs)

Post about it what you like. Don you know someone who entered the contest. Were you in the contest itself? Would you want that cart?
How much would you be willing to pay if you found it in the wild (i.e. flea market, garage sale... who knows where you might find one)?

Also, if you have interesting links, post them here.
I'll start:

I never really even knew about this cart until I got online about 2 years ago. That being said, I know nothing about it (what games are on it, what the switches do, tournament details). However, if I found this "in the wild", I would pay just about anything to get it. And then re-sell it for thousands

I really have no desire to own this cart other than re-sell.

Great post.
Cool to read a 1st hand story of somebody who was there.
Also thanks for the info on the switches.
Nice read.

Wow, no other comments on the NWC? Doesn’t anyone have anything they can share?

I must say, rizz, that must be one of the longest posts I've ever seen! I liked to read about the NWC, really interesting. Would have been cool to have experieced it, but I was only a mere 1-year-old when it all happened...

So the Nintendo World Championships were inspired by the movie "The Wizard"?

I will admit I've never heard of this game. But I will probably download it, and if its any good I will buy it.

Well, that could get a bit expensive, the grey, normal cart alone comes up to over 1000 dollars on eBay.

Not sure, but this entry looks a bit like spam... There are hundreds of other threads where he could have posted and introduced himself...
Maybe he just wanted to get a link to his homepage on the profile page to get his page rank up... who knows?

Really? Seemed OK to me, but I trust your instincts.