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Hrrrrm
Profile Joined March 2010
United States2081 Posts
March 03 2011 02:07 GMT
#21
I competed in the Blockbuster Donkey Kong Country contest. Ohhh good times.
alot = a lot (TWO WORDS)
Fighter
Profile Joined August 2010
Korea (South)1531 Posts
March 03 2011 02:20 GMT
#22
I remember reading about this thing in old issues of Nintendo Power :p
For Aiur???
jax1492
Profile Joined November 2009
United States1632 Posts
March 03 2011 03:28 GMT
#23
that takes me back ... now i want to go see the wizard again lol
SeedyV
Profile Joined November 2008
United States29 Posts
March 03 2011 04:51 GMT
#24
I actually participated in the Dallas event when I was like....five. I still have a small t-shirt in a box somewhere from the event.

To be young again....
leakingpear
Profile Joined March 2006
United Kingdom302 Posts
March 03 2011 06:01 GMT
#25
I love the powerglove...


...It's so bad.
Torte de Lini
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Germany38463 Posts
March 03 2011 07:23 GMT
#26
Man I am going back to watch The Wizard again.
When I saw it, I shit my pants so hard and how badass that kid was. The final competition was fucking ballet!
https://twitter.com/#!/TorteDeLini (@TorteDeLini)
omg.deus
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Korea (South)150 Posts
March 03 2011 11:41 GMT
#27
when i was younger i competed in one at blockbuster where i played donkey kong country, clayfighter, some racing game and something else...i dont remember much besides i won free rentals from blockbuster for a year
Black[CAT]
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Malaysia2589 Posts
March 03 2011 13:01 GMT
#28
Wow! I never knew about this at all! One of the earliest events on e-sports. 1990? I was expecting it around 1995...
What a nice find along with that WCG 2005 footage thread...
Epic day indeed....
You mean ESPORTS isnt a synonym for SC2? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -Proud owner of a Filco Majestouch 2 with Cherry Blue Switches- BW or SC2? Why not both?
Loophole
Profile Blog Joined October 2002
United States867 Posts
March 03 2011 13:06 GMT
#29
I'm actually kind of impressed how the cheesy announcer guy managed to commentate a tetris match. Nice blog. =)
"Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak." -Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Heyoka
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Katowice25012 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-03 14:55:13
March 03 2011 14:18 GMT
#30
On March 03 2011 20:41 omg.deus wrote:
when i was younger i competed in one at blockbuster where i played donkey kong country, clayfighter, some racing game and something else...i dont remember much besides i won free rentals from blockbuster for a year


haha I found a GamePro ad of the games from the first year. Looks like Virtua Racing (side note - the 32x version of this game was actually kind of good). I think Donkey Kong Country Competition Edition thing was the second one.

On March 03 2011 06:47 Bosu wrote:
Looks like Thor started up a blog last month about retro gaming. Neat.


Thanks for the heads up, this is great it has him and some other NWC guys. This is a hilarious photo I found of him while searching for it. Apparently there is a Tetris doc coming out about the game's competitive side that has him in it. I'm pretty psyched for that, there are at least 3 good looking video game competition docs supposedly coming out this year. edit: I watched the trailer and it looks awesome, link. Looks like it covers a lot of NWC stuff which is great because this wiki article leaves a lot of unanswered questions.

The more stuff I read on Thor the crazier it gets.

"I never really thought about it. It was very surreal at the time, but the contest followed a period in my life that was really hard, our house in The Colony, TX burned down the year before, and my mother had an attack of ventricular tachycardia that left her very lucky to be alive and a very long hospital stay and rehabilitation period," Aackerlund recalled. "In the end it was a small bright spot in the midst of a lot of hardship and transition."


(from the article that pic is in)
@RealHeyoka | ESL / DreamHack StarCraft Lead
MangoTango
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United States3670 Posts
March 03 2011 15:25 GMT
#31
Lol at "collect 50 coins on SMB" and the strategies used to do so. Great blog!
"One fish, two fish, red fish, BLUE TANK!" - Artosis
Heyoka
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Katowice25012 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-03 16:46:48
March 03 2011 15:28 GMT
#32
heres an interview with Rob Mihara, third place in his age category at NWC and a part of that Tetris doc. Its pretty good, it says "his next challenge is mastering the power glove".

@RealHeyoka | ESL / DreamHack StarCraft Lead
JayDee_
Profile Joined June 2010
548 Posts
March 03 2011 19:30 GMT
#33
That announcer has a hilarious 80's mullet
AirbladeOrange
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United States2573 Posts
March 03 2011 19:46 GMT
#34
On March 04 2011 04:30 JayDee_ wrote:
That announcer has a hilarious 80's mullet


Hey now, that's not a mullet. Mullets are short in the front.

I take offense to this because I had one of those cool hair styles back in those days just like the announcer. People see pictures of me from back then and think it looks dumb and nobody believes me it was once a sweet ass hairstyle. Maybe some day it will come back and get the revenge it deserves...
drag_
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
England425 Posts
March 03 2011 19:57 GMT
#35
Wow, thanks for posting this! I cannot believe that cartridge sold for 18k :O
AnotherEon
Profile Joined January 2011
United Kingdom250 Posts
March 03 2011 20:34 GMT
#36
Thats great ; ]

// Liquid_Eon
Kyrth
Profile Joined July 2010
United States101 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-03 21:05:03
March 03 2011 21:03 GMT
#37
Ah I remember the Donkey Kong Country tournament. I had the highest score in my local blockbuster. My name was still on the top of the scoreboard, but someone allegedly beat my score but they never updated the board, so my child's brain was very disappointed in not being able to go to the next stage, despite looking like I was in first. I rented the game and trained hardcore at home too. haha. They gave out marvel trading cards each time you entered. You were allowed 3 entries. I gave 2 of my 3 packs of cards away to friends who were too lazy to enter but bugged me for em. I kind of regret doing that. Overall it was pretty awesome though
CuttyFlam
Profile Joined April 2010
Belgium523 Posts
March 03 2011 22:18 GMT
#38
There is no company in the gaming industry that deserves as much respect as Nintendo.. Not even close!

<3 Nintendo!!
Leave it to ................... Luck!!
MayorMcCheez
Profile Joined January 2011
United States5 Posts
March 03 2011 22:42 GMT
#39
I love the announcer's half-hearted "woo" at 2:42! XD
Shady
Profile Joined May 2010
Austria115 Posts
March 03 2011 23:14 GMT
#40
great! gotta love nintendo for doing such events in times where nobody heard of something like eSports
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