I've been doing some digging on rare competition carts from the early-mid 1990's and found something pretty cool. It's the Super Famicom 1992 Challenge Competition Cart. Here's some pictures of the game in action: http://pixpipeline.com/d/159a1d0c73.jpg http://pixpipeline.com/d/f8bb3054de0e.jpg http://pixpipeline.com/d/7d0c8584a4d2.jpg http://pixpipeline.com/d/0d0f97c74764.jpg http://pixpipeline.com/d/89174a0f63bf.jpg http://pixpipeline.com/d/7f7e5b3ab3d9.jpg This seems identical to the Nintendo Campus Challenge 1992 Cart http://snescentral.edgeemu.com/article.php?id=0790 Both games have: 1) Super Mario World - Get 50 Coins 2) Play F-Zero - Finish 2 Laps 3) Play Pilotwings - Don't forget to use your parachute Seems kinda like the Nintendo World Championship 1990 Cart, right? Another thing I came across of was the Nintendo PowerFest 1994 Cart: http://pixpipeline.com/d/f3839ef3523e.jpg http://pixpipeline.com/d/7342efba4f4d.jpg http://pixpipeline.com/d/21aadd80477f.jpg http://pixpipeline.com/d/1cd9fbb60e93.jpg http://pixpipeline.com/d/1058dea83ea6.jpg Here's a video from a news clip from '94 http://www.vidilife.com/video_play_698666_Powerfest_94.htm Maybe we could see if we could maybe start a collection to maybe buy the SFC Competition cart & dump it? Although, the starting price is $3,999.00 and there aren't any bids on it yet. h:
Ehehe we couldn't get $1000 for items of far greater (subjective) value..no chance for this unfortunately.
i think that, the problem was time and organization... if we had 7 days we would have had no problems at all IMHO. i would have gladly dished out 15 euros (or more) that are almost 20 $, and i'm sure other people would have dished even more... with all the users we have i think it would have been easy to reach the target...
$4k is insane. I wonder what price these things usually reach? I know the Starwing/Starfox cart was cheaper, but that was given away as competition prizes (at least from Official Nintendo Magazine System). I'd donate for a dump but not for something overpriced.
The owner off those carts was lucky enough to buy a lot of stuff from an ex-Nintendo employee on the cheap at a garage sale. he has since put a *LOT* of it up on eBay at stupid-high prices in the hopes of a get-rich-quick scheme. Some of the stuff he has is good, much of it not. Regardless, it's all overpriced and he's been sitting with most of it. With these in particular there would be some interest in looking at the cart itself, but the ROM code is nothing special. -hl718
That cart is interesting, for sure. I wonder what else that plastic casing was used for? It's definitely overpriced, but it'd be neat to have a dump of it...assuming it doesn't have any other custom hardware in there. It's definitely not a Super Famicom cart, despite the plastic case, as it was purchased in the US and has the Super Nintendo logo too
Some explaination: It's a Super Famicom cart because there are 2 kinds of these (and 2 known copies). As the original seller-ex-Nintendo said: they made a competition between a USA player and a Japanese one by telephone acros the ocean. So a USA and a JAP copies. It's not the Campus Challenge (which went for more $ than this one) but something more obscure. the shell of this cart should be the same of the SNES Test Station and SNES-CD. On the top-right of the board you have the telephone plug. If you want to know more, just ask.
I bought an old VHS-tape with a Donkey Kong Country behind-the-scenes documentary. It has footage of a DKC-prototype in a shell just like the comp- carts'. http://pici.se/pictures/wKVE9n.jpg http://pici.se/pictures/Ht8wIo.jpg The only difference seen on-screen between the Campus Challenge cart and the 1992 Challenge Competition cart, is the title screen. The Campus Challenge cart in the article was also used in the final of a swedish competition called Nintendo On Tour, held in '92. EDIT: The Campus Challenge cart has not been sold. The PowerFest however was sold for 10k.
