Nintendo PowerFest '94
Nintendo Powerfest '94 (also known as Nintendo World Championships II, or just simply Nintendo Powerfest), is a cartridge of a video game for the SNES, and was a video-game competition in 1994 promoted by Nintendo. Many of the competitions were in towns held in a customized trailer outsite of stores.
Tasks
Players like in the Nintendo World Championships had to complete 3 tasks. The following tasks on the following games are shown below:
- Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels - Players had to complete Level 1-1 as fast as possible.
- Super Mario Kart - Players had to get 5 laps on the track selected.
- Ken Griffey Jr. Home Run Derby - Players had to select the mode "home run derby" and hit as many home runs as they could.
Also, again, just like the Nintendo World Championships, the player's scores are multiplied and then added together to get the total. After completing Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels, the score is multiplied by 1. However, in Super Mario Kart, there is an exception. The player can get extra points depending on what place they finish, and coins are worth 1,000 points. After finishing Ken Griffey Jr. Home Run Derby, the score is multiplied by 1,000,000, and all scores are added up together to get the final score. <br=all>
Competitions
The Town Competitions were held for three days and the finals were held on a late Sunday afternoon. Eight competitors had the Top 8 final scores, so they were entered into the Top 8.
Top 8:
The top four competitors with the highest scores moved on to the next round.
Top 4:
The top 2 competitors with the highest scores moved on to the next round.
Final:
The final 2 competitors went against each other and the winner was crowned "Town Champion".
World Championships
As Town Competitions finished up, the top four teams from these smaller competitions were emitted to the World Championships, hosted in San Diego, California. The four teams were:
- Cyclones
- Hurricanes
- Tornadoes
- Typhoons
The Tornadoes won the championship with the highest score.
Top Two
The top two players on Team Tornadoes played against each other on a specialized game cartridge of Donkey Kong Country. The two players were Iarossi Mike and Brandon Veach, and Iarossi was victorious, receiving the tile as the 1994 Nintendo Powerfest World Champion.
Legacy
For the competition there were 33 cartridges which were produced by Nintendo, and after the competition were used in stores for over 100 events. However, out of the 33 cartridges that were produced, Nintendo ordered for them to be sent back to them, but however, there is still one in existence, which is valued at $10,000 being one of the most expensive video game cartridges in history.
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