I hear there's something called Nintendo Force which is aiming to be a spiritual successor of sorts. They would, on occasion, get some things completely wrong. It's pretty obvious a lot of their maps were stitched together from individual screenshots, frequently with the player character sprite plainly visible. Just think of the struggle of trying to put those complex layouts together with the technology of 30 years ago. You didn't have to go poking in Gamefaqs and flipping through a huge document that would lay bare every last secret in a game ? if a developer threw in some kind of obscure idiocy, odds are you could read about that one particular solution there. What I really liked about the magazine is that frequently, it really was 'the news that you could use'. It got pretty darn sad when that changed some time after the N64 era. You might even find a photo or two taken of a high score on a TV screen from someone that you know.Ĭlick to expand.Way, way back in the day, they really only contained one or two overt advertisements ? if you didn't count the entire darn magazine as one huge advertisement.

You can find all 145 issues added so far on . Nintendo Power Holiday 2011 Buyers Guide suggests the various Mario games of the Nintendo Selects collection, Super Mario 3D Land for the platforming purist, Mario Kart 7, Mario Sports Mix, the Mario Wii and Nintendo DSi XL bundles, and the First 4 Figures Mario Nintendo DS Holder as gifts. The era of the video game magazine may be behind us, but these are definitely worth going back and checking out. Best of all, you can check out what video game advertisements looked like nearly 30 years ago. They're full of stories about classic games, interviews, and information. It can be kind of hard to lay your hands on physical copies of these magazines, but thanks to, you can peruse the first 145 issues online. Starting in July of 1988, the magazine ran for over 24 years, with its final issue, #285, published in December of 2012.

If you want to be nostalgic about your childhood, or just see what we were reading back in the late 80s, you should check out Nintendo Power. /media/global/images/library/deriv/1340/1340458.jpg There are already 145 issues of Nintendo Power added to the collection so far. You Can Read Old Issues of Nintendo Power on Right Now

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