The jollerancher's topic: IT'S THE CAMPUS CHALLENGE!!!!!

**JOLLERANCHER** · 05-31-2006, 09:30 PM

Originally Posted by sirhansirhan

Can someone explain to me how you got the Earthbound proto to work? Did you have to do something to it to get it to work in your system, or was it just a matter of trying it a bunch of times? I'm confused.

i stuck the eartbound into my nintendo the title screen came up than i started playing it. it the first screen im in a room and a lamp attacks me. i fight it off my hitting some commands, i sent a bunch of pics to nicola. i'll take some more later tonight. as u can imagine i've had to answer about 150 e-mails in the last couple of days so im getting a little tired. peace!!!!

**Nicola** · 06-01-2006, 06:39 AM

Originally Posted by JOLLERANCHER

i stuck the eartbound into my nintendo the title screen came up than i started playing it. it the first screen im in a room and a lamp attacks me. i fight it off my hitting some commands, i sent a bunch of pics to nicola. i'll take some more later tonight. as u can imagine i've had to answer about 150 e-mails in the last couple of days so im getting a little tired. peace!!!!

Here are all the pics, for all 56K:

**Nicola** · 06-01-2006, 12:41 PM

Surprise! It's the Campus Challenge!

As I've predicted here!

And it's from 1990!

Please don't flood the owner with request and mails. He has never stated that he wants to sell anything.
He is really precious and priceless in this moment

**NESaholic** · 06-01-2006, 12:51 PM

Wow that looks mega sweet, welcome to the forums, great entry!

I would love to see some more pics, any new ones coming up?

**Nicola** · 06-01-2006, 01:46 PM

btw we are OT

**Nate Nanjo** · 06-01-2006, 01:58 PM

Man, make me wish I could find deals like this.

I'd just...well I don't know...probably go insane if I found something like this.

**Buyatari** · 06-01-2006, 03:27 PM

so how many campus challegese are out there now?

**Nicola** · 06-01-2006, 03:36 PM

Are you sure that the final of the NWC in 1990 wasn't on these games?
Are you really really sure that the final was on the usual NWC?

Because these games, (SMB3, Pin Bot and Dr Mario) were all new for 1990! And, remember, the whole competition has been held following the success of The Wizard movie! And in the final, that little boy had to play with SMB3!!!

Think about it!

The competition begins 8 march and SMB3 has been released the 1st february...and the hype was BIG!

Think well! Try to remember!

The final, are you sure about it???

This is what I think: for the competition they used usual NWCs, but for the final they used this cart. If not, I can't explain the "1990".

To Buyatari: we're currenlty rtying to understand this. There is one Campus Challenge for SNES and this "second" NWC for NES. In 2 days all the history has been changed!

**kralleman** · 06-01-2006, 04:42 PM

I want the NES one as well

**jajaja** · 06-01-2006, 05:04 PM

Wow i didnt notice it was 3 diffrent games than the NWC cart. Is it possible that they planed to have these 3 games instead of SMB/Rad Racer/Tetris? Or doesnt the release dates on the other games match with when the NWC was held?

**Nicola** · 06-01-2006, 05:08 PM

Originally Posted by jajaja

Wow i didnt notice it was 3 diffrent games than the NWC cart. Is it possible that they planed to have these 3 games instead of SMB/Rad Racer/Tetris? Or doesnt the release dates on the other game match with when the NWC was held?

Did you read my post 2 posts ago?
It's all matching. I think it has been used, maybe during the finals.

**DreamTR** · 06-01-2006, 05:10 PM

Trust me, the Super Mario 3/Pinbot/Dr. Mario is part of the Campus Challenge tournament. I had been saying something like this existed for years. It was NOT part of the NWC.

The SNES portion of the Campus Challenge I was unaware of myself, but I am sure there were two portions.

**kralleman** · 06-01-2006, 05:15 PM

It would also confirm this old article, which I've quoted before:

http://www.neswarpzone.com/campus.html

**jajaja** · 06-01-2006, 05:30 PM

Originally Posted by Nicola

Originally Posted by jajaja

Wow i didnt notice it was 3 diffrent games than the NWC cart. Is it possible that they planed to have these 3 games instead of SMB/Rad Racer/Tetris? Or doesnt the release dates on the other game match with when the NWC was held?

Did you read my post 2 posts ago?
It's all matching. I think it has been used, maybe during the finals.

Yep, i did read it. You only mention when NWC was held and when SMB3 was released. I dont know when Dr. Mario and Pin-Bot was released. If i knew i wouldnt have asked hehe :P

But DreamTR confirmed it and kralleman came with the article. So i guess the mystery is solved now

**JOLLERANCHER** · 06-01-2006, 05:46 PM

Originally Posted by Nicola

btw we are OT

so do i got someting good here. dont know if i mentioned but i think i also have the ken griffey jr proto or demo from the the 94 snes powerfest competition. this week its cool being me.

**kralleman** · 06-01-2006, 05:54 PM

Originally Posted by JOLLERANCHER

Originally Posted by Nicola

btw we are OT

so do i got someting good here. dont know if i mentioned but i think i also have the ken griffey jr proto or demo from the the 94 snes powerfest competition. this week its cool being me.

I'd rather be you than the guy who sold you the stuff...

**evil_genius** · 06-01-2006, 06:04 PM

Originally Posted by JOLLERANCHER

this week its cool being me.

i would have to agree with u on that one

**DreamTR** · 06-01-2006, 07:16 PM

Well, hopefully we find out when/how these are being sold, and/or if they are not being sold.

**Nicola** · 06-01-2006, 08:02 PM

Originally Posted by JOLLERANCHER

Originally Posted by Nicola

btw we are OT

so do i got someting good here. dont know if i mentioned but i think i also have the ken griffey jr proto or demo from the the 94 snes powerfest competition. this week its cool being me.

Please, please, before selling, if you ever want to, share as many pics and infos as you can! After being sold, this cart may be lost forever: not everyone is like DP members!

**Speedy_NES** · 06-01-2006, 08:24 PM

Great find!

What I don't understand, though, is why it doesn't have a Campus Challenge titlescreen when they already made one for the SNES version. I'm assuming that there's two possibilities. Either this cart was used for the NWC finalists like Nicola mentioned, which would make sense since finalists would have to be able to master (new) games in a relatively short time period. Or this cart was meant to be used for the NWC, then scrapped due to the fact that the games were too new and the contest would have too small of an audience (SMB/Rad Racer/Tetris had been played by just about every NES consumer/gamer back then, so with those games the audience is automatically MUCH larger), and possibly the software was then later used at the Campus Challenge since most gamers by that time had played them, and the titlescreen wasn't changed since they just used the same software from the initial version?

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