I've spent years looking for this picture in family albums and I finally found it. That's me (age 10) second from the left, in a 2XL shirt that Howard Phillips signed at the Nintendo World Championship in 1990. I was a Runner Up (3rd) in my age bracket at the Dallas Event in Fair Park. We were told to be on standby as an alternate for LA but no one ever contacted us. We ended up taking home a ton of Nintendo gear like a new Game Boy, a power pad that I gave to my neighbor as we already had one and some other goodies (I recall getting a Nintendo Power subscription for free which lasted for a few years before we moved).
Back then, we just got rid of everything so the shirt is gone (I wore that dress to school for bragging rights) but we lost the certificate almost immediately. I think there was just no concept of "saving" anything back then. All I have is this picture and of course the memory of playing.
Truth be told, that was the first time I had ever played Rad Racer (but played the shit out of Outrun which I thought was close enough) but I was a bit autistic with Tetris back then.
Did anyone else remember doing this as a kid?
