Nintendo World Championship Locations Announced
Back in 1990, Nintendo hosed a special video game competition that was loosely based on the film, The Wizard. It featured a special cartridge that was to be used for that competition only, and featured three different Nintendo games that were popular at the time. The competition was based on scoring the highest number of possible points in the alotted time limit.
That unique cartridge has gone on to become a thing of video game legend as only a handful were ever made and they've since gone on to become one of the holy grails of video game collecting, easily selling for several thousand dollars each on the rare occasion that they've gone on sale. But that's another story for another time.
What's exciting today is that Nintendo is reviving and updating their World Championship competition for 2015.
Eight Best Buy stores have been selected to host the qualifying events for the competition on May 30th. The stores are as follows.
1717 Harrison St.
San Francisco, CA
3675 Pacific Coast Highway
Torrance, CA
10760 NW 17th St.
Miami, FL
900 E. Golf Road
Schaumburg, IL
12905 Elm Creek Blvd. N
Maple Grove, MN
5001 Northern Blvd.
Long Island City, NY
9378 N. Central Expressway
Dallas, TX
2214 S. 48th St.
Tacoma, WA
The top winners from each location will then compete in a live stream on June 14th in LA during E3 to determine the Nintendo World Champion.
The qualifying rounds will feature the game Ultimate NES Remix for the Nintendo 3DS on Championship mode and, like the original contest, will feature score based competitions this time in the games Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros 3, and Dr. Mario. Nintendo has said that the game and the 3DS will be provided at each of the eight locations, but the game is already avaliable to buy for anyone who wants to start practicing.
So if you think you might be potential Nintendo World Championship material, get practicing. You have until May 30th.
That unique cartridge has gone on to become a thing of video game legend as only a handful were ever made and they've since gone on to become one of the holy grails of video game collecting, easily selling for several thousand dollars each on the rare occasion that they've gone on sale. But that's another story for another time.
What's exciting today is that Nintendo is reviving and updating their World Championship competition for 2015.
Eight Best Buy stores have been selected to host the qualifying events for the competition on May 30th. The stores are as follows.
1717 Harrison St.
San Francisco, CA
3675 Pacific Coast Highway
Torrance, CA
10760 NW 17th St.
Miami, FL
900 E. Golf Road
Schaumburg, IL
12905 Elm Creek Blvd. N
Maple Grove, MN
5001 Northern Blvd.
Long Island City, NY
9378 N. Central Expressway
Dallas, TX
2214 S. 48th St.
Tacoma, WA
The top winners from each location will then compete in a live stream on June 14th in LA during E3 to determine the Nintendo World Champion.
The qualifying rounds will feature the game Ultimate NES Remix for the Nintendo 3DS on Championship mode and, like the original contest, will feature score based competitions this time in the games Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros 3, and Dr. Mario. Nintendo has said that the game and the 3DS will be provided at each of the eight locations, but the game is already avaliable to buy for anyone who wants to start practicing.
So if you think you might be potential Nintendo World Championship material, get practicing. You have until May 30th.
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