Nintendo Power Shuts Down Afther 24 Years

[TR0N]

I never subscribed (I wish I did! My parents said "No!"), but I did receive the first issue for free (they sent it out to everyone on their mailing list, IIRC).
Of course, I am basing this on the debut issue of Nintendo Power! Ha!!!!!

Was this the reason why you're parents said no !?

If they saw this add that's probably why,it's to much power for any kid to handle 

[NightWolve]

who cares, really.

I shouldn't, but I do. It's like hearing a former friend you got into a fight with died. Any chance of reconciliation is gone now.

Hm, interesting analogy.

I never subscribed (I wish I did! My parents said "No!"), but I did receive the first issue for free (they sent it out to everyone on their mailing list, IIRC).

Yeah, that's how most got it, myself included. I also won a Dragon Warrior game from Nintendo with full maps and a guidebook.

The singular focus of NP is, in a way, it's charm.

Of course, I am basing this on the debut issue of Nintendo Power! Ha!!!!!

No worries, your opinion is still just about as good as anyone else's...

[esteban]

I never subscribed (I wish I did! My parents said "No!"), but I did receive the first issue for free (they sent it out to everyone on their mailing list, IIRC).
Of course, I am basing this on the debut issue of Nintendo Power! Ha!!!!!

Was this the reason why you're parents said no !?

If they saw this add that's probably why,it's to much power for any kid to handle 

Ha! What an awesome commercial. My parents thought that a magazine would simply make me lust for games that I couldn't afford. It was, in the truest sense of the word, a "tease".

Bottom line: PUT YOUR $$$ INTO SOFTWARE PURCHASES, CHILD!

Which makes sense, I suppose, but they were discounting the fact that I would read and re-read magazines. The magazines certainly provided numerous hours of enjoyment and were well worth the cost of a subscription.

OH WELL.

[RegalSin]

The issue introducing, Pokemon was probably my last, issue that influenced me. Everything into the N64 years was just complete,
Miyamoto created the N64 marching band, and the Nintendo awards.
How could a magazine give itself it's own awards?

They had maps, imagery, and shots that would not appear in the game itself. It was beautiful, along with some of the artwork.

Electronic gaming monthly ( I think that it was called ), had some artwork, but the original Nintendo magazine had content that was made in house. However I am comparing the later magazine, to the earlier releases.

The one thing I love about the magazine is the shots. It looks biblical compared to anything released nowadays.

[Arjak]

*Reads Article*

Wow, who would've thought? This is truly the end of an era for Gaming Magazines...

[Colossus1574]

Wow, looks like NP not getting much love here...but i do admit i haven't read it much after they started concentrating on the SNES because i ended up buyin a Genny for my 16bit era.

Aside from that, when the NES was my main system...I felt like it was Christmas everytime the issue showed up at my doorstep  the early issues i read so damn much the staples couldn't even hold the magazine together! So in other words, i got nothing but good things to say for something that was responsible for so much enjoyment in my childhood days cause i read those suckers from cover to cover. My favourite article/section was probably the Top 30, it was fun seeing games move up and down the chart and seeing how your favourite game fared on the chart. I was so happy when my friends were dissing me for buying an unrecognized game in The Guardian Legend, few weeks later I showed them TGL making it into the Top 5! SUCK IT!  So ya it also helped me study up on what was a safe bet for my next game purchase. I considered myself quite a gamer back then, so I'd always end up buying stuff from the Pro's Pick chart  If u guys remember there was the Player's Picks, Pro's Picks, and Seller's Picks (dunno who was giving input for that chart tho...).

[TR0N]

I never subscribed (I wish I did! My parents said "No!"), but I did receive the first issue for free (they sent it out to everyone on their mailing list, IIRC).
Of course, I am basing this on the debut issue of Nintendo Power! Ha!!!!!

Was this the reason why you're parents said no !?

If they saw this add that's probably why,it's to much power for any kid to handle 

Ha! What an awesome commercial. My parents thought that a magazine would simply make me lust for games that I couldn't afford. It was, in the truest sense of the word, a "tease".

Bottom line: PUT YOUR $$$ INTO SOFTWARE PURCHASES, CHILD!

Which makes sense, I suppose, but they were discounting the fact that I would read and re-read magazines. The magazines certainly provided numerous hours of enjoyment and were well worth the cost of a subscription.

OH WELL.

Yeah during the nes era nintendo power gave me to many wants far as games go.Still looking at it now,it use to make me frustrated when it had a add or a review for a up and coming game.Mostly because back then games had more of (tba) then a release date so you never knew when the new game was coming out.I remember when nintendo power had a walkthrough of strider yet the game hadn't hit retail until many months later.

[RegalSin]

Wow, looks like NP not getting much love here...but i do admit i haven't read it much after they started concentrating on the SNES because i ended up buyin a Genny for my 16bit era.

Their is no more love for Nintendo, anywhere. They had something beautiful, and turned it into something terrible. The entire gameverse, is stationed, in Japan, humping the comicverse. While we are stuck with, oh videogame is a computer thing, comic books is an writers thing. It is like their is no justice when it comes to fiction in the west at all.

Let me tell you something about magazine layout, back then. If you can spot mistakes in the layout, it was most likely done by hand, assisted by a computer like the AMIGA, or Apple. Eventually the desktop publishing portion of the magazine was done by computer entirely. I am talking about photoshop, Quark, and so fort. You can even compare and contrast your magazines to find computer editing. In order for them to do a faded image on a page they had to get an airbrush person, and
then take that cel and overlap it. Everything in color costed money.

We had RYB printers, but that was too expensive, and we even have RGB
printers, but that was again too expensive. Nowadays we have CMYBlk printers.

[KnightWarrior]

I liked NP in the SNES days

[Nando]

Related: http://platinumfungi.com/2012/08/a-mega-man-project-is-coming/

As anyone who grew up with Nintendo Power magazine will tell you, the hand drawn art along the edges of the pages really enriched not only the magazines, but the games they were portraying too. Having a more detailed visual of all the weapons, monsters, power ups, maps, and bosses helped make it something more than “just a game”. Your childhood imagination went wild, and it became almost real.

So, years ago, when I came across a sizable collection of (mostly) Nintendo Power magazines that were in poor condition, I snatched them up knowing that eventually I’d use them for a art project. Little did I know that I’d still be using them all these years later!

[RegalSin]

They also had short comics, in realations and full scenes, and art with story, from fans.

[kazekirifx]

[Bloody Wolf]

Haven't read it in years but sucks to see it going

[lukester]

Well last issue came out.

They did a Top 285 Nintendo games list, but no Virtual Boy games!!

Oh well.

[finerion]

Just picked up the last issue at the bookstore today. Haven't opened it up yet and I'm not really sure I'm going to.

I too managed to snag a copy of NP from time to time when I was a kid and I read the mess out of them. I snagged a subscription a couple of years ago and honestly the magic was gone. And it really wasn't Nintendo Power's fault either. The magic is gone from Nintendo. So when I say that I am sad to see the end of NP's run it is not for their sake but because of what it means to the industry as a whole. The internet is quickly killing the print magazines and it saddens me to see it all go away.