Nintendo Campus Challenge 1992

Nintendo Campus Challenge 1992 was a video game competition sponsored by Nintendo and held at nearly 60 college campuses throughout the United States.

Games and cartridge

Nintendo Campus Challenge 1992 Cartridge

The rules are the same as the 1991 version except with three Super NES minigames. The first minigame of the competition is Super Mario World, where players must collect 50 coins (very similar to Nintendo World Championships 1990's first minigame, Super Mario Bros.). The second game is a version of F-Zero where players must complete two laps. The final minigame is Pilotwings where players must land on two targets successfully. Once time does expire, a player's score was totaled using the following formula:

• Super Mario World score
• + F-Zero score times 100
• + Pilotwings score times 10,000

There are only two known "1992 Campus Challenge" cartridges. One was found at the same New York City garage sale by Rob Walters as the 1991 cartridge. The cartridge is owned by a video game collector named Rick Bruns.^[1] The second one was found in an attic of a former employee of a company who did projects for Nintendo. Nintendo sent the cartridge to the company along with systems and other games.^[2]

Event structure

The 1992 "Nintendo Campus Challenge" competition was held at 35 college campuses throughout the US.^[3] The winner at each location won a Super NES Control Set with Super Mario World, F-Zero, and Pilot Wings. Consolation prizes of $100, $75, and $50 were awarded to second, third, and fourth place contestants. The winner of the whole US competition won $10,000.

Similar competitions were held in Europe and Japan in 1992. The winner of the US competition, Jeff Hanson, won against the winner of the Japanese competition, Yuichi Suyama, and became the World Champion at the 1993 Consumer Electronics Show.

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