Nintendo World Championships 1990 (Game Pak)

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The Nintendo World Championships 1990 Game Pak was a game used exclusively at the Nintendo World Championships 1990. While originally not intended to be given away, the competitors (and others) were eventually given the Game Paks they used in the competition (90 were made). In addition, a contest was held by Nintendo Power to give away 26 gold copies. The Game Pak combined Super Mario Bros., Rad Racer and Tetris to be used in competition.

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Due to its fame and scarcity, the Nintendo World Championships 1990 Game Paks are especially prized by collectors, and demand a high price. The gold copies in particular are some of the most valuable video games.

Condition is also an issue with these cartridges, with very few being in mint condition. This is in part due to the cheap glue used in the adhesion of the labels. Time has showed that this will cause the label to peel over time, even without normal use.

In 2008, Retrozone made replicas of the cartridge for play on the Nintendo Entertainment System due to the fact that emulators of the game tended not to be very accurate in timing of the games. The game comes in a distinctive clear cobalt blue shell without switches to prevent it from being confused for a official cart.

In 2021, NESDev forum user "Xrider" built five replicas of the cartridge with vintage components inside, one gold and four grey variants. The following serial numbers were used on the labels: 0284, 0342, 0310 and 228 with the latter being a prototype. The replicas are rather easy to identify as such (wrong label design on the gold cartridge, wrong SMD marking codes, different fonts for the PCB markings etc.). One replica of the grey variant was later sold on eBay for 1,561.00 EUR.

Verified Copies[]

No.	Original Owner	Current Owner	Picture
0055	Randy Napier	Randy Napier as of 3/22/12
0061	Colleen Cardas	????
0083	????	Nick Morgan
0087	Mike Iarossi	????
0090	Jason Brandos	Eddy Yuja
0095	????	Jason Wilson
0103	Robin Mihara	John Tani as of April 2009
0105	Shannon Webster	Nicola Ferrarese
0119	????	????
0132	????	????	File:NWC90 0132.JPG
0136	????	Dain Anderson
0137	Ben Smith	Tod Curtis as of 10/16/2005
0156	????	????
0163	????	????
0166	Justin Grant	Justin Grant
0168	????	Scott Ross
0183	Chris Tang	????
0196	????	????
0215	????	Portnoyd
0227	Rich Ambler	????
0240	????	????
0250	????	????
0260	Dustin Durham	Steve Lin
0265	????	Michael Swanson
0273	Anonymous ex-NOA employee who used Ben Smith as a middleman	Rob Budrick
0280	????	????	File:NWC90 0280.JPG
0283	Shamus Bowker	????
0305	Steve Gingerich	Rob Fischer
0311	????	????
0325	Brad Russo (received from his Dad, Arthur "Torch" Russo, an NWC staffer)	????
0330	????	????
0343	Ben Smith	????
0346	Robert Whiteman	Robert Whiteman
0???	????	Muresan (aka Stephen)
0???	Steve Factor	Undecided

Nintendo World Championships 1990 (Game Pak)

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