Topic: Nintendo Superchallenge in Victoria, Australia

[TheYoungerPlumber]

It’s like a concert series on a movie screen.  Only it features GameCube games and gamers.

In a videogame competition of Wizard proportions, Nintendo’s Australian division is putting on a series of GameCube gaming sessions in search of the best Aussie Nintendo fan.

Preliminaries will take place every two weeks starting August 1st at six participating Village Cinema movie theaters in Fountain Gate, Sunshine, Southland and Crown.  Each competition will feature a different GameCube game of Nintendo's choice.  Players must purchase a single (AUS$12) or season (AUS$60) ticket to participate in one or all of the preliminary rounds, respectively.  The 50 contestants with the most points from each cinema will go on to the finals in Melbourne on October 24th.  Points will carry over from preliminary to preliminary, so a season ticket is your best bet for victory, and you’ll get a bag of swag for the extra money.  If you just want to observe the big-screen action, guest tickets are also available at $20 for a season ticket $5 for a single session.

The first prize winner will win a family trip to visit Nintendo of America in lovely Redmond, Washington.  Second prize is a GameCube system and  a year’s supply of Nintendo GameCube games.  The third place winner will win a private movie screening for 25 people.  Nintendo will also be giving away Game Boy SP systems unavailable down under.

Be sure to keep an eye on the official website for details on prizes and leader board rankings once the action begins!

[Ian Sane]

"The 50 contestants with the most points from each cinema will go on to the finals in Melbourne on October 24th."

Heh.  Are there even 50 people in all of Australia that own a Gamecube?

"Second prize is a GameCube game and a year’s supply of Nintendo GameCube games."

What an awkward sentence.  If you win a game and a year's supply of games isn't that the same as just plain winning a year's supply of games?  Of course a year's supply of Cube games in Australia would be like maybe six games.  

Sorry for all the sarcastic comments but when it comes to Nintendo and Australia the comments write themselves.

[TheYoungerPlumber]

I know what you mean!  And yeah, I meant a GameCube system--whoops.  I've fixed the article.

[Berto2K]

NAL doing something?!?!?! OMG hell must have froze over.

That is a cool contest.  Hopefully they are paying for all the travel for participants to Melbourne.

[Infernal Monkey]

I want a bag of NAL swag. ;__;
Sadly, I can't be arsed flying down to Melbourne to lose a game of F-Zero GX. That'd be cool, though. It's nice to see NAL doing things again, finally.

[Uncle Rich AiAi]

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Originally posted by: Infernal Monkey
Sadly, I can't be arsed flying down to Melbourne...

You don't wanna visit me?


Finally, a competition in Melbourne, but sadly, I don't like it much.  And since I play Sega > Nintendo games, I'll give it a pass.    To me, it looks like NAL are charging so they can pay their employees salary?  A grand total 5 of 'em....

[TheYoungerPlumber]

Actually, it's more likely they're charging so that the movie theaters (theatres?) don't make less money than they would showing a movie on those dates instead.

[Caillan]

Maybe this has something to do with the visit Satoru Iwata is planning to make? It's certianly nice to see NAL doing something, though it's aimed soley at the hardcore audience.

[WuTangTurtle]

GBA SP is unavailable in Austrailia??  I thought by now GBA SP's where everywhere!  What a world u guys live in, I mean next thing u know their gonna tell me they don't have dvd players down under!

[reviewgamer]

GBA SP is available in australia. sounds like a good idea but a bit expensive.

[Caillan]

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GBA SP is unavailable in Austrailia?? I thought by now GBA SP's where everywhere!

Eh? The GBA is definately available here. Even New Zealand got it's own custom-colour version. I think what the article means to say is that some of the customised colours that arean't available here will be given away.

[S-U-P-E-R]

Nintendo doing something for Australians? Impossible. It must be some sort of trap from which you'll never return

oh sh

[DrZoidberg]

ten bux sez they'll have PS1 games there or something, SIMPSONS WRESTLING GO!

[Infernal Monkey]

"Hey guys we set up a game of 1080"
"No, that's 720 you've got going over there. The old skateboarding game"
"..... "

...........
"Hey guys we set up a game of 1080"

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

Iwata-san busts thru the door, surrounded by mist and sparkly fireworks.

He's dressed up like that flashy dude from Iron Chef.

He greets you with 2 sentences:
"Try to bomb the HARBOR!"
"Chinpokomon give you HAPPY FEELINGS!"

[RABicle]

OK this thing has got to be some kind of joke right? This promotion is obviously expensive, I mean they are giving away 4 plane tickets to Seattle but just how promotional is anything that you have to PAY to enter anyway? What kind of contest is that? Smells like bull**** to me.

And second prize a gamecube system? What the hell! Who would pay to enter a gaming contest for a system they don't own and actually win. Seriously offering a Gamecube as a prize to Gamecube owners is ridiculous. And Ian is right, A years supply of Gamecube games in Australia is probably half a dozen to a dozen games because guess what? That's how many titles they release!

Seriously this contest is full of ****, even stupider is that it's in Melbourne only, that's like a huge indication to me taht NAL just can't be arsed doing something more than 20 minutes travel from NAL headquarters (Melbourne for the uneducated.) Why not really throw this contest open and make it Australia wide? It would be huge if the grand champions were announced as a kid from Geraldton WA and some nerd from Townsville Qld and they competed for the ultimate title in Adelaide or somewhere. Maybe then I would care about this event, or the F1 for that matter but no, only in Melbourne.

[Aussie Ben PGC]

I'm going to take a massive guess here, and guess that Nintendo will either be giving away NES GBA SPs or Tribal GBA SPs, as neither of those are available here.

Pity I can import both of those from Europe, eh?

Give me a Donkey Kong GBA SP, like the Japanese one!  Banana Yellow!  Finally, a Game Boy that would match my Donkey Kong Land 1, 2 and 3 carts I have.

EDIT:  What do you know, I'm right.  It IS the Tribal Edition.

[Dunny2]

Not only do I have to live in the world of Nintendo make Believe, I have to live in the world's most isolated capital city (aka Perth). It's been 5 years since we've seen a nintendo promotion in this state.

And with the amount of Australians who own a gamecube, I'd have damn good chance of winning, before taking skill into account.

[davidlow122]

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"Chinpokomon give you HAPPY FEELINGS!"

Ha! I didn't think anyone watched south park but me!

Q]Heh. Are there even 50 people in all of Australia that own a Gamecube?

There are 150,000 people in Australia that own a gamecube (source: Sydney morning Herald).

It's not THAT much of a failure, it's just that xbox has sold 420,000 here and ps2 1 million. However, xbox also LOSES the most money per unit here, so no wonder they're doing ok in terms of market share. But they lose almost $150 AUS per unit sold here (they're about $250 with 2 games) from what I've read. And they spend BIG on Ads and store space.

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"And second prize a gamecube system? What the hell!

So true. Oh well, give it to someone if you win.

If this was on in Sydney, I'd totally go. You cannot beat me at F-zero. I've never met my equal at goldeneye or Timsplitters 2, either. .

[JubJub]

This is yet another USELESS promotion from Nintendo Australia. I hate Nintendo Australia. They've got such a big, nice office... can't see why! It couldn't take more than 1 person to enter the words 'today, zero gamecubes purchased' each day.  

[DrZoidberg]

It's a pretty rad promotion, I mean they send the winner to the U.S. to see how a real Nintendo branch is run

but I'm in on that anti-NAL stance.

[cd2]

I would just like to point out that you don't just win a GameCube system as the second prize you win an "A GameCube Interactive Unit and a years supply of GameCube games" I.E The GameCube Demo Units you see in the shops.  So you do win a GameCube but You win a  TV and Nintendo Stand to hold it in.  As for you guys b*tchin about the years worth of games I would like to see you b*tch when or if you won it and got Metroid Prime 2, Paper Mario 2, Star Fox 2, Donkey Konga, Donkey Kong Jungle Beat, Mario Party 6, Advance Wars Under fire.  All for free!!!

Atleast, they are trying at the moment to get thing moving just look at the latest GameCube ads and the this promotion sure its a limited promotion but it doesn't mean that people from Brisbane, Sydney, Perth or tassie can't enter you just have to be stuff traveling there (Or have the time).

However, feel free to complain about the lack of locations, just holding it in Melboure is just unfair to the rest of us.  IT also means that I wont be able to make it.

Oh and check out the main Super challenage website. Main Super Challenage site

[Uncle Rich AiAi]

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Originally posted by: JubJub
I hate Nintendo Australia. They've got such a big, nice office... can't see why!

As I type, I'm a block away from NAL's hq.  oh noes, I'm losing IQ points as being near NAL is infectious.

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It's a pretty rad promotion, I mean they send the winner to the U.S. to see how a real Nintendo branch is run

I agree.  Who's to complain if you win to go to NOA hq?  It would have been better if the competition was nation wide though.