Nintendo Power Calls It Quits

[Finch]

Relaunch Nitendo Power with free Dragon Quest X.

[YellerDog]

Nintendo Power was a wonderful magazine for a very long time.

[Diff-chan]

I loved this mag during the SNES days. It convinced me to get so many awesome games and had me drooling over many more.

Remember the free 1-800 tip/info line Nintendo ran? That was the best customer service ever.

[GohanX]

I think my first issue was that Super C issue, and I pretty much had the mags memorized. I couldn't buy or play the majority of the games, so the mags were the next best thing. The Super NES hype and release was pretty awesome too.

I did get some random Nintendo Power subscriptions in the GBA/Gamecube era, I think because of a free Zelda collection or something, but it was pretty much trash at that point.

[Joust Williams]

So basically Nintendo Power is a microcosm of Nintendo's efforts as a whole.

[Finch]

Pretty much. Nintendo Power was always as good as Nintendo. NES and Super NES Nintendo Power were amazing. N64 Nintendo Power was okay sometimes.


No Nintendo Power means NO NITENDO.

[Rumpy]

The strat guides/maps for games was THE shit in elementary school. Paper internet.

[Nash]

I was all excited because I had mistakenly read the thread title as "Nintendo Calls It Quits." Selective reading...

[cka]

it unofficially died when they started making them 75% third party advertisements (I don't know exactly when, but in 2006 when I got all my ds crap there was an offer for 3 free issues so I said what the hell and got 'em... nothing like the nes/snes era NP)

also Top Secret Passwords is about 4 feet away from me, because I never know when I'll need the jackie chan game stage select code

[Yoshi]

So basically Nintendo Power is a microcosm of Nintendo's efforts as a whole.

Future third parties don't need their own magazines anyway.