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tpugmire:
Some were handed out, but not all. From what I remember, there were 25-30 stations set up, each with a copy of the game. Not sure how many we're actually handed out, but I'm sure it wasn't all of them. The competition was held in cities all over the place, so I've never been able to determine how many we're actually manufactured, but I'd guess 100-200.

patrickmeansly:

--- Quote from: tpugmire on May 15, 2013, 12:31:20 am ---Some were handed out, but not all. From what I remember, there were 25-30 stations set up, each with a copy of the game. Not sure how many we're actually handed out, but I'm sure it wasn't all of them. The competition was held in cities all over the place, so I've never been able to determine how many we're actually manufactured, but I'd guess 100-200.

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Thanks for the information. Kind of reminds me of that movie "the wizard". where the guy played in a nintendo contest or something like it

ffxik:
There are 250 grey NWC carts that were handed out at the competitions.
There are 25 gold NWC carts that were gave away by a Nintendo Power sweepstakes.

soera:
All right, time for my input ... NWC was indeed 6 minutes 21 seconds to get 50 coins on SMB, 1 course on Rad racer, then get as many points as possible on Tetris. The points you got for SMB counted as equal. The points on Rad Racer counted x 10. The points you got on Tetris counted x 25. An actual Tetris was worth a mega ton of points in that aspect. I competed in OKC. I won the first day but did not win the second day and as such, I did not get an invite to the finals.

The carts themselves were the same grey carts people are paying loads of money for. They were all just to be destroyed but the parents of the people that didnt win the actual competition but did win in their respective cities were upset that they had to bring their family to the competition and were going to get nothing for it ... so as an afterthought, Nintendo gave each competitor a cartridge. Its actually unknown by everyone (including Howard Philips himself) how many were given out but the number is around 150.

The gold NWC is just a normal NWC in a gold Zelda-ish cartridge. It was a contest in Nintendo power and 26 were won.

tpugmire:
Your memory is better than mine. I could have sworn they told us that the third objective was to get 4 Tetrises. But like I said, I sucked anyway and couldn't do it. Did they hand out Mario and Luigi plush dolls at yours? We got them at the door, but I gave mine to my little sister. I wonder whatever happened to those?

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