Treasure Master (USA)
Treasure Master is a video game released by American Softworks in 1991 for the Nintendo Entertainment System as part of a contest involving MTV.
Technical
CPU
- maincpu N2A03 (@ 1 Mhz)
Chipset
- N2A03 (@ 1 Mhz)
Display
- Orientation Yoko
- Resolution 255 x 240
- Frequency 60.098 Hz
Controlers
- Number of players 4
- Number of buttons 2
- Kind of controler
- triplejoy (8 ways)
- triplejoy (8 ways)
- triplejoy (8 ways)
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The contest
After the game's release in late 1991, players had until noon EST on April 11, 1992 to practice beating the game. At this time, MTV revealed a secret password. By entering in this password and the game's serial number before beginning the game, players unlocked a secret sixth "Prize World" level. After this, players had until midnight to complete the entire game including the Prize World. This prompted the game to reveal a 24 character code. By calling in to a special hotline with this code, players had a chance at winning one of 36,252 prizes.
Two first-prize winners had their pick of:
Contest prizes
Two first-prize winners had their pick of:
- Fantasy Rock Concert
- Fantasy Sports Event
- Fantasy Audio/Video Room
- $10,000
Music
The game's music was composed by Tim Follin. The game's title screen music was actually a remix of the theme song to the Starsky and Hutch television series.