DefaultGen | 5,405 Posted June 9, 2023 Share Posted June 9, 2023 When I started more seriously collecting Japanese games a few years ago, I made a list of the best and rarest things I wanted to collect and this is #1 on the list. In Spring 1987, Nintendo's had (AFAIK) their first game competition with Famicom Golf: Japan Course on FDS. You would bring your disk to a store, a clerk would put it in a fancy machine, and it would fax your high score to Nintendo. Wild. (Baseless) estimates of 5,000-10,000 gold disks were sent out randomly to participants containing the Professional Course in a yellow disk-kun case. These are pretty gettable but I still love them. The actual top 100 winners of the contest got the Champions' Course disk. It came a personalized plaque, a personalized disk with their rank, and a unique very challenging course. It even has the outer box How am I so good at collecting? I don't know. At worst, this is Stadium Events, an extremely rare variant of an existing game. At best, it's the top prize of Nintendo's first contest far predating NWC and the rarest publicly released Nintendo game, which is of course how I tend to see it because I'm the greatest collector who ever lived. I don't think this is publicly dumped anywhere so I'll get on that. Here's a cool guy standing next to the fax station. There were a few other Disk Fax contests which had some cool prizes, but none are quite as rare or interesting. The only other top 100 prizes after this were trophies, not games, and I tend to just collect video games. And this is some guy on Youtube playing hole 18 to show how ridiculously hard it is: The next thing on the list is a gold Rockman 4 cart, but kind of doubt I'm ever going to get that since there were only 8 of them and I'm not a big enough Rockman 4 fan for what it would take to get one. Dave you can post some Taiwanese game where you own the only known copy to one up me now. 7 10 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkTone | 985 Posted June 9, 2023 Share Posted June 9, 2023 Holy shit! Congrats. Is this your new gem of your collection? Good luck with 4! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DefaultGen | 5,405 Posted June 9, 2023 Author Share Posted June 9, 2023 1 minute ago, DarkTone said: Holy shit! Congrats. Is this your new gem of your collection? Good luck with 4! It's certainly up there. The Rockman 4 winners list is pubicly available and I think 4-5 are confirmed to exist, so they're just waiting for someone to go DreamTR-call them all up with fat offers. I'm sure it's been done before but the modern gaijin might be willing to offer a LOT more than has ever been offered for one. I'm not sure how challenging cultural differences would be in getting one of country but it's not on my to-do list. I'll wait for one to sell for $70k on Heritage Auctions then be like "Man I should've hit up that Yoshitaka guy on Twitter". 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a3quit4s | 4,102 Posted June 9, 2023 Share Posted June 9, 2023 This is excellent. Thank you for posting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWunderful | 2,927 Posted June 9, 2023 Share Posted June 9, 2023 Incredible. I think even rarer than SE, especially in the west. Not a huge famicom import guy but I might want it even more than an SE. Looks sharp and minty too. Ps Respect for the pic quality, its obvious you know how to photograph games. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePhleo | 2,185 Posted June 9, 2023 Share Posted June 9, 2023 54 minutes ago, DefaultGen said: The next thing on the list is a gold Rockman 4 cart, but kind of doubt I'm ever going to get that since there were only 8 of them and I'm not a big enough Rockman 4 fan for what it would take to get one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePhleo | 2,185 Posted June 9, 2023 Share Posted June 9, 2023 WAIT A MINUTE. This is a Mario Game... This is officially the rarest Mario game... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Link | 2,713 Posted June 9, 2023 Share Posted June 9, 2023 7 minutes ago, ThePhleo said: WAIT A MINUTE. This is a Mario Game... This is officially the rarest Mario game... But is it a REAL Mario game? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePhleo | 2,185 Posted June 9, 2023 Share Posted June 9, 2023 12 minutes ago, Link said: But is it a REAL Mario game? Check out the screenshot. It's Mario, no "Ossan" from NES Golf. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearcat-Doug | 5,105 Posted June 9, 2023 Share Posted June 9, 2023 That's awesome! Congrats on the pickup! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Link | 2,713 Posted June 9, 2023 Share Posted June 9, 2023 1 hour ago, ThePhleo said: Check out the screenshot. It's Mario, no "Ossan" from NES Golf. And this is not Papa from Doki Doki Panic 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brickman | 3,987 Posted June 9, 2023 Share Posted June 9, 2023 Very cool pickup. Is there an interesting story to go with how you obtained it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanooki | 4,934 Posted June 9, 2023 Share Posted June 9, 2023 Yeah I'd have to agree it's a real Mario game, and worst of the worst to try and track down definitely. What a hell of a score I remember reading up on this a few times over the years most recently this year and yes that was their first fax/mail away prize thing with a game, Golf was #1 with the prize wheel of fun there and that's the big guns right there with that box, gold trophy plate and disk. That's nuts finding that and in such incredible shape too. Pretty big of you if it really isn't dumped to make a copy, very nice and giving all things considered. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DefaultGen | 5,405 Posted June 10, 2023 Author Share Posted June 10, 2023 45 minutes ago, Brickman said: Very cool pickup. Is there an interesting story to go with how you obtained it? I found an old crypto wallet and spent all my money 1 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick | 61 Posted June 19, 2023 Share Posted June 19, 2023 Awesome! Congrats on the fantastic pickup! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T-Pac | 7,550 Graphics Team · Posted July 1, 2023 Share Posted July 1, 2023 @DefaultGen it didn't dawn on me just how cool this was until I listened to the Collectors Quest podcast episode where you talked about it. What an incredible collectible! By the way - does the number 35 (the rank of your copy) have any significance to you? That would make it even more special. [T-Pac] 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackVega | 583 Posted July 3, 2023 Share Posted July 3, 2023 On 6/10/2023 at 2:16 AM, DefaultGen said: I found an old crypto wallet and spent all my money I thought you were selling pornhub premium subscriptions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bag of Magic Food | 0 Posted November 26, 2023 Share Posted November 26, 2023 On 6/9/2023 at 3:20 PM, DefaultGen said: I don't think this is publicly dumped anywhere so I'll get on that. I believe you're correct, at least according to the No-Intro wiki as of now. I have found dump lists with a Japan Course Prize Card, a Special Course Prize Card, and some DV 2s, but no Champions' Course! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_J | 0 Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 Just curious if you’re still planning on dumping the game? It’s such a rare and unique part of Nintendo’s history, and it feels tragic that it’s yet to be preserved. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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