NINTENDO CAMPUS CHALLENGE CUPS
(Posted 2013-01-03 08:00:05 by basscomm)

Image: UNITDSTS [
http://www.crummysocks.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/UNITDSTS-300x168.png
]

Around the early 1990's, it wasn't terribly uncommon to find video game
tournaments scattered around the country, focusing on the ol' NES. Heck,
there was an entire movie [
http://gamerlimit.com/2010/02/retro-reunion-the-wizard-movie-review/ ]
about one such (fictional) contest. I even participated in (and lost) my
fair share of local competitions, but one that I never was able to find
around my old stomping grounds is the Nintendo Campus Challenge.

[caption id="attachment_7062" align="aligncenter" width="300"]Image: Campus
Challenge Drinkware [
http://www.crummysocks.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/campus_challenge_cup-300x225.jpg
] [ http://www.ruinedcartridge.com/?attachment_id=7062 ] A couple of cups
from the Nintendo Campus Challenge[/caption]

Above are some cups that I managed to get hold of from this challenge, and,
in fact, were the first that I had actually heard of the thing. It turns
out that in the NES's heyday (1991, it seems [
http://www.mariowiki.com/Nintendo_Campus_Challenge ]), Nintendo sponsored a
video game tournament held, you guessed it, primarily at universities. And
since I was 12 years old at the time, I didn't really spend a whole lot of
times at college campuses. But if one did spend time at one of the campuses
where this event was held, you might have played a special cartridge where
you got to compete in portions of several [
http://www.retrousb.com/product_info.php?cPath=23&products_id=68 ] NES
games (Pin-Bot, Super Mario Bros. 3, and Dr. Mario) and get the highest
score possible, for the chance to win Big Money [
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCgS079ZkPU ]. You might have even had the
opportunity to drink out of one of these cups.

Well, probably not one of these specific cups, but you get the idea.

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