― kingfish, Monday, 12 March 2007 22:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― kingfish, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 00:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Abbott, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 04:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― kingfish, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 05:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― forksclovetofu, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― Z S, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 22:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― kingfish, Thursday, 15 March 2007 00:03 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Abbott, Thursday, 15 March 2007 20:29 (seventeen years ago) link
I recently read my free copies I received for registering games. I liked how good-natured it is towards games on non-Nintendo systems, giving kind words to Okami and Castlevania SOTN among others. But I suspect it's only because Nintendo is dominating the markets so much that they aren't worried about the competition.
― abanana, Saturday, 11 August 2007 03:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Wow, I don't remember them even acknowledging the existence of other consoles back the early 90s.
― marmotwolof, Saturday, 11 August 2007 03:07 (sixteen years ago) link
I think this was in the letter columns
― kingfish, Saturday, 11 August 2007 04:04 (sixteen years ago) link
the thing that strikes me about that cover upthread is that it's not shitty 3d CG like the covers were when the N64 hit the market
― Curt1s Stephens, Saturday, 11 August 2007 19:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Haha the very first issue of NP was like a clay model of SMB2, I held on to it for years, wish I still had it. I had the first six or seven years of NP. There were also bad covers with real people dressed up as Link and Simon Belmont and shit. Those were the days.
― marmotwolof, Saturday, 11 August 2007 20:00 (sixteen years ago) link
http://ganonstower.com/np4sm.jpg
I mean is that Richard Marx? WTF.
― marmotwolof, Saturday, 11 August 2007 20:04 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.themushroomkingdom.net/mania/images/mag/np_julyaugust88.jpg
― marmotwolof, Saturday, 11 August 2007 20:22 (sixteen years ago) link
^ Ha, I had forgotten about them making Mario's hat blue there.
http://castlevania.classicgaming.gamespy.com/Images/Scans/CV2/np-cv2.jpg
― marmotwolof, Saturday, 11 August 2007 20:29 (sixteen years ago) link
i also had the first six years of Nintendo power. Are they all online anywhere?
― forksclovetofu, Saturday, 11 August 2007 21:51 (sixteen years ago) link
I've just found these covers here and there. The only really cool thing about those old ones were complete maps for things like Metroid and Metal Gear.
― marmotwolof, Saturday, 11 August 2007 22:11 (sixteen years ago) link
And Kid Icarus. I've never even played Kid Icarus, but I remember staring at the maps in NP for hours on end, mentally working my way through the levels.
― Z S, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 22:27 (sixteen years ago) link
http://retromags.com/wiki/index.php?title=Nintendo_Power has most of the early covers.
― abanana, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 22:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Just got the new ish!
― forksclovetofu, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 20:16 (sixteen years ago) link
This Track and Field cover cracks me up to this day. http://retromags.com/wiki/images/9/9c/NP_Issue_003.jpg
Even as a little kid I was like "wtf, you don't have rocket shoes in that game."
― marmotwolof, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 21:10 (sixteen years ago) link
The cosplay covers just keep on coming: http://retromags.com/wiki/images/3/37/NP_Issue_005.jpg
Yeah, that dude looks like a "Hayabusa."
― marmotwolof, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 21:13 (sixteen years ago) link
I assume this is Nicholson's first and only game mag cover: http://retromags.com/wiki/images/8/83/NP_Issue_010.jpg
Someone please prove me wrong.
― marmotwolof, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 21:17 (sixteen years ago) link
well there was that Witches of Eastwick game they released for Atari Lynx
― latebloomer, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 22:58 (sixteen years ago) link
haha
Ok here's the sequel with Michael Keaton up front: http://retromags.com/wiki/images/0/07/NP_Issue_048.jpg
This seems to be the last of the cosplay shit. A little better than the early NES era stuff: http://retromags.com/wiki/images/9/95/NP_Issue_034.jpg
Earthquake RIP: http://retromags.com/wiki/images/a/a3/NP_Issue_035.jpg
― marmotwolof, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 23:07 (sixteen years ago) link
lol "CD-ROM TECH UPDATE" Yeah, we decided nobody wants that CD-ROM shit. Go make your "Playstation," Sony. Good luck with that.
― marmotwolof, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 23:09 (sixteen years ago) link
The new issue (feb 2009) is an RPG special and well worth checking out... mostly focusing on upcoming releases
― Jeff LeVine, Saturday, 17 January 2009 20:15 (fifteen years ago) link
they have such a terrible website
― Lamp, Saturday, 17 January 2009 22:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Nintendo Power corrupts Nintendoly.
― O Bama, Up Yours! (The Yellow Kid), Sunday, 18 January 2009 01:09 (fifteen years ago) link
$5.00 for a one year subscription to Ninteno Power via Amazon, if you're in the US. Preety crazy deal (lasts till next Satuday).http://www.amazon.com/Nintendo-Power/dp/B001074CAQ/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=magazines&qid=1275251965&sr=8-2
― Jeff LeVine, Sunday, 30 May 2010 20:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Nintendo Power
― Jeff LeVine, Sunday, 30 May 2010 20:43 (thirteen years ago) link
preety?
― Jeff LeVine, Sunday, 30 May 2010 20:44 (thirteen years ago) link
always been confounded by mario's blue hat on the first nintendo power cover
― ᵒ always toasted, never fried (crüt), Sunday, 30 May 2010 20:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Ok, for $5, that is my birthday present to myself. I am running out of trial issues of "The Week" to read in the restroom.
― breaking that little dog's heart chakra (Abbott), Sunday, 30 May 2010 21:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Rest in Peace
― Fiendish Doctor Wu (kingfish), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 13:36 (eleven years ago) link
Is sad
― "Pffft" --buddha (silby), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 19:09 (eleven years ago) link
eh, if EGM can make a comeback, so will Nintendo Power
― Nhex, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 22:21 (eleven years ago) link
when microsoft buys nintendo after they bankrupt, totally bet they'll relaunch
― "Batshit crazy," the foam clog tycoon said. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 22:35 (eleven years ago) link
Man I just had a vision of a world where Apple bought Comcast.
― "Pffft" --buddha (silby), Thursday, 23 August 2012 01:33 (eleven years ago) link
Are Nintendo in any danger of bankruptcy? They just took all 10 slots in the Japanese handheld sales chart!
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 23 August 2012 13:57 (eleven years ago) link
it's hard for me to see a future for Nintendo like its past, since the Wii HD or whatever it's called looks like a loser out of the gate, & the 3DS seems like the wrong handheld at this time; whether those spell bankrupcy I dunno, depends on their financial condition & skills, but short of licensing Mario to Apple they look like they might get Sega-ed.
― Euler, Thursday, 23 August 2012 14:00 (eleven years ago) link
haha I guess licensing Mario to Apple would be being Sega-ed.
― Euler, Thursday, 23 August 2012 14:01 (eleven years ago) link
uh nintendo are not even a little bit in trouble, i was being massively sarcastic
― "Batshit crazy," the foam clog tycoon said. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 23 August 2012 14:03 (eleven years ago) link
i'd say i'll miss nestor but a) i barely remember him and b) he creeped me out iirc.
― #1 Thwartstop Prospect (Will M.), Thursday, 23 August 2012 15:10 (eleven years ago) link
http://4thegirlgamers.blogspot.ca/2008/07/nintedo-power-20th-anniversary-edition.html
― get you ass to mahs (abanana), Thursday, 23 August 2012 17:41 (eleven years ago) link
Hah, sorry I don't keep much track of the industry (the all-10-positions was the result of some frantic Googling). I know they don't get a lot of respect, and that the Wii is no longer outselling the PS3 and 360 combined.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 24 August 2012 08:37 (eleven years ago) link
The WiiU will probably sell a trillion units.
― Jeff, Friday, 24 August 2012 11:31 (eleven years ago) link
Sony are the ones currently in trouble financially, 3DS is doing ok, really unconvinced by WiiU myself though.
― zappi, Friday, 24 August 2012 11:59 (eleven years ago) link
Lego City Undercover(nee Stories) looks cool, but at this point, I'm wondering if I should just pick up a Gamecube and load up on select cheap games, as the system was good for those.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlZ-vxCfWVg
― Fiendish Doctor Wu (kingfish), Friday, 24 August 2012 15:59 (eleven years ago) link
Wii can run Gamecube games though, right? So it might be a better buy.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 24 August 2012 16:07 (eleven years ago) link
Wii can run Gamecube games, Wii U won't I think (but idk probably will have them as downloadable Virtual Console titles?)
― "Pffft" --buddha (silby), Friday, 24 August 2012 18:38 (eleven years ago) link
Get the Wii just because it's hard and expensive to get video component out cables for the GameCube.
BUT! the later price cut Wii models don't have GC backwards compatibility, so watch out for that. They won't have the controller ports.
― Nhex, Friday, 24 August 2012 19:08 (eleven years ago) link
wow - I didn't know they dropped gamecube support... horrible.
― JCL, Friday, 24 August 2012 19:21 (eleven years ago) link
http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/npfinal-640x360.png
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/11/final-nintendo-power-cover-brings-the-magazine-full-circle/
This is sort of sad to me, but yeah I only subscribed up until N64 years and then I just pretty much never read a videogame magazine again. It's funny how many comments on various sites are "Who care this is just a 30-page ad from Nintendo WAKE UP SHEEPLE" when really what print magazine isn't basically an advertisement.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 2 December 2012 17:37 (eleven years ago) link
when really what print magazine isn't basically an advertisement
Holky siht...
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Sunday, 2 December 2012 18:57 (eleven years ago) link
Gotta say the demented-looking Mario from the first issue cover looks pretty awesome.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 2 December 2012 19:12 (eleven years ago) link
all video game mags are atrocious hack jobs but Nintendo Power at least was not also written with a dudebro core gamer male-gazey house style. I think all my back issues from my various subscription eras have been sold or disposed, alas.
― wongo hulkington's jade palace late night buffet (silby), Sunday, 2 December 2012 19:42 (eleven years ago) link
still hilarious to me that they fucked up Mario's coloring on the first cover
― crüt, Sunday, 2 December 2012 19:43 (eleven years ago) link
It's a brochure. Everyone mourning its passing is a fucktard
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Sunday, 2 December 2012 19:59 (eleven years ago) link
― (alternatively, “Respec’”) (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 2 December 2012 21:26 (eleven years ago) link
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pgRNgMASibE/Smu9E4Ekb-I/AAAAAAAAAA8/ibyomLpG5UQ/s200/norman.jpg
― s.clover, Monday, 3 December 2012 00:30 (eleven years ago) link
Really great article here
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/183233/Nintendo_Power_Remembering_Americas_LongestLasting_Game_Magazine.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+GamasutraFeatureArticles+%28Gamasutra+Feature+Articles%29
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 11 December 2012 18:46 (eleven years ago) link
Nice
― THE NATIONS YOUTH DANCED TO THE MACARANA (innocent) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 11 December 2012 18:49 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/1W3h7.jpg
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 11 December 2012 18:51 (eleven years ago) link
lol, we r old
― THE NATIONS YOUTH DANCED TO THE MACARANA (innocent) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 11 December 2012 18:56 (eleven years ago) link
Wow, that article is great so far. The making-of for the game maps!
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 00:36 (eleven years ago) link
Should I do anything with my stacks of old NP / Next Gen / EGM / etc. gaming mags or should they go straight into a dumpster
― 龜, Friday, 29 August 2014 19:59 (nine years ago) link
Internet Archive might be interested in scanning them
― Spirit of Match Game '76 (silby), Friday, 29 August 2014 20:10 (nine years ago) link
Basically spot check for anything that might not be scanned "out there", do a desultory eBay listing of anything in a contiguous chunk, then recycle
― Spirit of Match Game '76 (silby), Friday, 29 August 2014 20:11 (nine years ago) link
i kinda want em? for bathroom reading?
― the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Friday, 29 August 2014 20:14 (nine years ago) link
Forks if your address is still at 53rd street I'll send them to you
― 龜, Friday, 29 August 2014 20:17 (nine years ago) link
theres a (small) market for nes/snes era nintendo powers but even then i think i managed ~$3 an issue when i sold off all the ones i had
― Lamp, Friday, 29 August 2014 20:19 (nine years ago) link
Aw, thanks dude. I left that job awhile back. I will ilx u with info
― the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Friday, 29 August 2014 20:37 (nine years ago) link
https://archive.org/details/nintendopower
and thanks again dayo
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Tuesday, 2 August 2016 20:54 (seven years ago) link