Post by GINTegg on Apr 5, 2019 19:09:55 GMT
Vectorman is a run and gun platformer for the sega genesis that was advertised with a contest called the "Play To Win" promotion. The idea was that certain copies of the game would have special screens on them with a secret phone number and mailing address that would be found by completing the game without using any cheats. Players would then call the number and presumably they would be given instructions on how to claim their prizes. The grand prize winner was a kid by the name of Keolamanaokalahuinui "Keola" Kaula who won $25,000 , a trip to sega hq,a page on sega online,and he supposedly also had a staring role in a sega advert. However according to a press release from sega at the time there were an additional ten $10,000 prizes given out and 90 sega saturns as well making for a total of 101 prizes given out and 101 special copies of vectorman although we don't know how many of those prizes were claimed although I doubt that every one of them was. Winners were to send their carts back to sega where they would be replaced with standard ones. I want to see the contest winner screen and if we can try to find any more of the winners.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo9du-dUJ8w ad for the game that mentions the contest
segaretro.org/Press_release:_1996-01-12:_12-year-old_gamer_wins_$25,000_cash_grand_prize_in_Sega%27s_videogame_contest press release from sega regarding the grand prize winner
www.rfgeneration.com/images/games/U-040/bb/U-040-S-06560-A.jpg the back of the game box with info on the contest
forums.sonicretro.org/index.php?showtopic=35486 another ad this time from egm #77 that has more info including what would happen if a rental cart was a winner.
also this is a separate thing from the sega channel vectorman morph contest
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo9du-dUJ8w ad for the game that mentions the contest
segaretro.org/Press_release:_1996-01-12:_12-year-old_gamer_wins_$25,000_cash_grand_prize_in_Sega%27s_videogame_contest press release from sega regarding the grand prize winner
www.rfgeneration.com/images/games/U-040/bb/U-040-S-06560-A.jpg the back of the game box with info on the contest
forums.sonicretro.org/index.php?showtopic=35486 another ad this time from egm #77 that has more info including what would happen if a rental cart was a winner.
also this is a separate thing from the sega channel vectorman morph contest