Talk:Stadium Events

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Prior to 10/1/2008, this page was a redirect to the Power Pad wiki, which had limited information on Stadium Events itself. Unlike other games which are more notable for artwork, plot, or gameplay, the interest in Stadium Events is soley due to the fact that it is considered, by NES and vintage game collectors, as valuable are rare. In order to have a complete set of NTSC Nintendo games, which many collectors strive to do, they must have this game, making a small-production run game even more desirable and scarce.

If you have any magazine articles or other information to contribute, please do so. If you have old GamePro's, Nintendo Power, or other gaming magazine archives, please look through them for citable references to this game and it's production. I have already contacted Nintendo of America as well as Bandia America, but received no response.

If anyone can provide pictures of the box and/or information from the manual, that would be greatly appreciated. - i am currently in the process of buying an unsealed stadium events from someone, ill post the manual's content. KRISHANKO (talk) 23:25, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

Stadium Events recall rumor

Nintendo recalled the game shortly after its release in order to rebrand the Family Fun Fitness series as a first party product.

There is no source that Stadium Events was ever recalled instead of simply selling out of the limited stock there was (or getting thrown into the ocean, there's simply no information about it). It is speculation that has run out of control and is now being perpetuated through Wikipedia. This should have a source (I strongly suspect there is currently no reliable primary source either way on this rumor) or the line should be edited or removed.

To quote Howard Phillips in the ESPN article, the most relevant person at Nintendo I believe who has ever commented on it:

Not even Howard Phillips knows the truth. He was the face of Nintendo of America from the mid-'80s until 1990, testing and promoting NES games in Nintendo Power magazine. (A child of the '80s might remember him as the guru in a bow tie in the "Howard and Nestor" comic.) "There were 10,000 copies, maybe, produced," he says. "That sounds like a crazy- big number given that so few have shown up. Ten thousand copies for the North American release was close to minimum run. If there were 10,000, I don't know where they ended up. I don't have recollection of us burying them in a landfill. Destroying them or reworking them would've been a laborious task. Getting the label off would've been overly laborious on a per-unit basis. So ... the rarity is a mystery, isn't it?"

— "The true story of Nintendo's most wanted game". ESPN.com.

DefaultGen (talk) 16:57, 7 March 2019 (UTC)

Fixed. TarkusAB^talk 17:12, 7 March 2019 (UTC)

Separating Stadium Events from World Class Track Meet

I think Stadium Events and World Class Track Meet should be separate articles. Nate-Dawg921 (talk) 23:42, 3 August 2022 (UTC)