Giveaway: World Championship Games for the Nintendo DS

When I was a kid, one of my dad’s jobs was as an arcade game vendor – he was responsible for putting those big video game machines into restaurants and other locations, and then split the profits with each business owner. So we often would have video games (yep, the big consoles) in the house when he’d need to fix or store one for a while. One of my brother’s and my favorites for a while was a track and field game – where you could compete in six different events. My main memories of the game are that we used to just about wear our index fingers raw because you had to ‘run’ by repeatedly pressing a button very quickly. 

Video games have come a huge way since the 80’s, and Nintendo has some of the most popular ones out there. And their World Championship Games is the most realistic simulation of athletic events out there for handheld consoles.

What it is:

World Championship Games, from the The Game Factory, allows you to, “create and customize your own athletes and compete with them in 14 different events at world famous arenas!”.

The game is for the Nintendo DS platform, and utilizes the stylus to let your athlete run, jump, throw, and otherwise compete in the 100m, long jump, shot put, high jump, 400m, 110m hurdles, discus throw, pole vault, javelin, 1500m, rifle shooting, pistol shooting and archery. There are several different modes, including ‘practice’, ‘career’, ‘tournament’ and multiplayer functions that let you challenge your friends and play with up to 4 people.

When you break records and win medals, the game lets you unlock additional events, stadiums and other hidden items to make play even more fun and exciting.

Would you like to try it?:

Thanks to the Family Review Network and The Game Factory, I have a copy of World Championship Games for the Nintendo DS to give away to a lucky reader! If you’d like to try out this game for yourself or give it as a gift, here are the rules:

1. Enter by visiting the Game Factory site and leaving a comment here to let me know which other game(s) look like fun to you. Please don’t just say ‘choose me’, or your entry will be discarded.
2. The contest will run until Friday, March 27th at 11:59 pm EST. The winner will be selected through random drawing, contacted by e-mail, listed on this post and also submitted to PRIZEY.Fetch. US entries only, please.
3. Please leave a valid e-mail address or other way to contact you! If you don’t wish to leave your e-mail address, please make sure that you leave a unique name and check back with PRIZEYWinners to see if you won. If the winner hasn’t responded within 3 days, an alternate winner will be chosen by random drawing.
4. If you’d like extra entries, you can:

• Subscribe to my RSS feed (click on the orange icon in the upper right sidebar) or subscribe via e-mail – leave me a separate comment to let me know.
• Mention this contest on your blog with a link back to this post, and leave a separate comment with the link to your post so I can find it.
• Either Twitter about, ‘Stumble’, ‘Digg’ or ‘Kirtsy’ this post – leave me a separate comment with your username at whichever site(s) you chose (one extra entry per method).

So that’s a total of 7 comments/entries if you do all of the extra entry options.

Good luck! 

THIS CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED – the random number generator has chosen comment #52 as the winner:

Congratulations toWehaf (no blog) who said, “I’d love to try Biker Mice from Mars.“! I will be e-mailing you shortly to work out the details.

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