Who’s the person behind this game?
Nintendo PowerFest 1994 was a video game tournament organized by Nintendo America in 1994.
Nintendo is a worldwide video game publisher based in Japan. Fusajiro Yamauchi, a master craftsman, developed Nintendo Karuta in 1889.
Four teams competed in the Nintendo Powerfest competition to see who could obtain the highest score on three different games. Super Mario All-Stars would be the starting point after that is Super Mario Kart. And the last stage is Ken Griffey. So the player should complete the given task at every stage before moving to the next stage. In addition, you should complete this game within 6-minutes. Nintendo PowerFest 1994 had all three minigames on a single cartridge.
Why is this video game valuable?
Nintendo made about 33 cartridges for PowerFest ’94. These cartridges are used in stores worldwide. Unfortunately, only two cartridges are still available today. Nintendo received the last of the cartridges. It was dismantled and used as a component.
The PowerFest ’94 game is significantly larger than the typical SNES game. It has a back-end wire that allows it to connect to up to 8 other games, and it displays everyone’s score on a separate monitor. It also has a timer that stops all games after 6 minutes.
The first cartridge was from the competition’s preliminary rounds. And in Ken Griffey Baseball, home runs are worth 10,000 points. Another PowerFest cartridge was from the finals. It was when Nintendo changed the home run score to one million points. As a result, although playing the same game, both cartridges are unique.
What’s Nintendo PowerFest ’94 worth today?
They tried to list the cartridge on myebid.com for $300,000, but there were no takers. Then, finally, a collector discovered a cartridge. In 2012, it was purchased for $12,000 by J.J. Hendricks.
J.J. Hendricks owned the 10,000 points version of Nintendo Powerfest 1994.
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