Nintendo Campus Challenge 1991

Nintendo Campus Challenge 1991 was a video game competition sponsored by Nintendo and held at nearly 60 college campuses throughout the United States. It was the first of two Campus Challenges.

Games

Nintendo Campus Challenge 1991 Cartridge

Like Nintendo World Championships 1990, the official event gave each player 6 minutes and 21 seconds to play in the contest, but there are three different minigames. The first minigame of the competition is to collect 25 coins in Super Mario Bros. 3. The next minigame is a version of Pin*Bot where players must get 100,000 points. The final minigame is Dr. Mario and this lasts until time expires. Once time does expire, a player's score is totaled using the following formula:

Cartridge

There is only one known original copy of the 1991 Campus Challenge cartridge in existence. The game was found by a video game collector, Rob Walters, at a garage sale in New York in 2006.[1] The game sold for $14,000 in July 2009[2] After 3 months, the game was resold on eBay for $20,100.[3]

1991 Event Structure

The 1991 Campus Challenge was held at 58 college campuses and spring break locations. The event consisted of three stages. The main stage had the competition on 12 different game stations. The second stage was Nintendo Entertainment System systems with various games while the third stage had Game Boy systems. Attendees at the events could play as many times as they wanted and the highest score at the end of the day was announced the winner.

The winner from each location was flown to Disney World in Orlando over New Year's weekend in January 1992.[4] All the competitors played in the first round followed by a second round with the six highest scoring players only. The final round was a head-to-head match between Steven Lucas and Matt Sekelsky. Steven Lucas won with a score of 2,394,130.[5]

Date College/Location Place
11/29/1990 Louisiana State University Baton Rouge
12/3/1990 Texas A&M University College Station
12/6/1990 Oklahoma University Norman, Oklahoma
1/10/1991 Consumer Electronics Show Las Vegas
1/15/1991 California State Polytechnic University San Luis Obispo
1/17/1991 University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara
1/21/1991 University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles
1/24/1991 University of Southern California Los Angeles
1/28/1991 California State University, Long Beach Long Beach
1/31/1991 University of California, Irvine Irvine
2/4/1991 California State University, Fullerton Fullerton
2/7/1991 San Diego State University San Diego
2/11/1991 University of Nevada, Las Vegas Las Vegas
2/14/1991 Arizona State University Tempe
2/18/1991 University of Arizona Tucson
2/21/1991 University of New Mexico Albuquerque
2/25/1991 Texas Tech University Lubbock
2/28/1991 University of Texas at Arlington Arlington
3/4/1991 University of Texas at Austin Austin
3/7/1991 University of Houston Houston
3/11/1991 Spring Break South Padre Island, Texas
3/19/1991 Spring Break Daytona Beach, Florida
3/25/1991 Spring Break Daytona Beach
4/4/1991 Univ. of Georgia Athens
4/8/1991 Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta
4/11/1991 Auburn University Auburn
4/15/1991 University of Alabama Tuscaloosa
4/18/1991 University of Tennessee, Knoxville Knoxville
4/22/1991 Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio
4/24/1991 Chevy Open House GM Tech Center
4/25/1991 University of Michigan Ann Arbor
4/29/1991 Indiana University Bloomington
5/2/1991 University of Wisconsin–Madison Madison
5/6/1991 University of Minnesota Minneapolis
5/9/1991 Northwestern University Evanston
8/2/1991 Ohio State Fair Columbus
8/15/1991 Illinois State Fair Springfield
8/22/1991-9/20/1991 Canada Tour Canada
9/23/1991 University at Albany Albany
9/26/1991 University of Massachusetts Amherst Amherst
9/30/1991 Boston University Boston
10/3/1991 University of Rhode Island Kingston
10/7/1991 New York University New York City
10/10/1991 Rutgers University–New Brunswick New Brunswick
10/14/1991 University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia
10/17/1991 University of Maryland, College Park College Park
10/21/1991 George Washington University Washington DC
10/24/1991 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill
10/28/1991 Clemson University Clemson
11/11/1991 University of Washington Seattle
11/13/1991 Nintendo Open House Seattle
11/18/1991 University of Oregon Eugene
11/27/1991 California State University, Sacramento Sacramento
12/2/1991 University of California, Berkeley Berkeley
12/5/1991 Stanford University Stanford
12/9/1991 San Jose State University San Jose
1/4/1992 Walt Disney World Orlando

References

  1. ↑ "Greatest Video Game Garage Sale". VGPC.com. Retrieved 2009-08-09.
  2. ↑ "Nintendo Campus Challenge 1991 Price History". VGPC.com. Retrieved 2009-08-09.
  3. ↑ "Nintendo Campus Challenge 1991 Ebay". ebay. Retrieved 2009-10-08.
  4. ↑ "Campus Challenge Video". VidLife.com. Retrieved 2009-07-13.
  5. ↑ "Campus Challenge Winner Video". VidLife.com. Retrieved 2009-07-13.
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