{"id":1031,"date":"2014-03-11T09:39:49","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T14:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=1031"},"modified":"2014-03-11T09:54:32","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T14:54:32","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-nintendo-world-championships-1990","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/1031\/retro-scan-of-the-week-nintendo-world-championships-1990","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Nintendo World Championships 1990"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/nintendo_world_championships_1990_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/nintendo_world_championships_1990_small.jpg\" alt=\"Nintendo Power Nintendo World Championships 1990 Advertisement 1990\" class=\"retroscan\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>&#8220;Children everywhere will be crushed and digitized by the trophy of power.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a certain <a href=\"http:\/\/www.polygon.com\/2014\/2\/5\/5380924\/nintendo-world-championships-cartridge-sells-for-100k-on-ebay\" target=\"_blank\">ultra-rare golden NES cartridge<\/a> out there that originated at <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nintendo_World_Championships\" target=\"_blank\">Nintendo World Championships<\/a> 1990.  Here&#8217;s an advertisement for the event itself on the back of a vintage Nintendo Power magazine from 1990.<\/p>\n<p>Kinda makes you want to go back in time and attend, doesn&#8217;t it?  Call 1-900-HOT-4NWC to find out more!<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From Nintendo Power, May-June 1990, rear cover]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> Video game competitions: interesting or boring?  Debate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Children everywhere will be crushed and digitized by the trophy of power.&#8221; There&#8217;s a certain ultra-rare golden NES cartridge out there that originated at Nintendo World Championships 1990. Here&#8217;s an advertisement for the event itself on the back of a vintage Nintendo Power magazine from 1990. Kinda makes you want to go back in time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,22,27,26,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-nes-famicom","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-retrogaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}