A Review of Nintendo Power #1

Via Joystiq, a review on the site X-Entertainment of the very first issue of Nintendo Power. Amusing if only for the sake of nostalgia. From the article: "There's the table of contents. The big games at the time were The Legend of Zelda and the just-released Super Mario Bros. 2. To their credit, Nintendo covered a lot of the older games kids were still into playing, mixing the stuff people wanted to see with the stuff they wanted you to see. It wasn't just one big commercial in print. While they weren't really going to come down on any of the games for their own system, all of the articles were approached honestly enough. They usually steered away from romanticizing crap - if the game sucked, they didn't say it sucked, but they didn't spend a whole lot of time talking about it."

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I still have that issue!

[rubberbando]

I found it digging through some old stuff of mine stored in my parent's attic. It was pretty beat up though.

That magazine used to be great. The 1st issue was probably the best one published by Nintendo. It had the most info about upcoming games, the most tips, tricks, and strategies. However, with each issue after that one, there was less and less of that kind of content. Nowadays, I think its more ads than anything.

What also made that issue great was the fact that it was free. If you were a member of the Nintendo Fun Club (which was also free), you recieved the first issue free. However, creating Nintendo Power was Nintendo's way of saying that they wanted you to pay for those tips, tricks, etc. Before Nintendo Power, you could just join the Nintnedo Fun Club for free and get a monthly newsletter with this sort of information. I wish I still had some of those newsletters, they'd probably be worth something in the collector's market.

Oh well...