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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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For some reason this code has been burned into my mind since I was 6, at the time this issue came out. I don't remember if this code to skip straight to Tyson was actually in the magazine or not, but it is still relevant. Sadly, this wasn't quite as known as the Konami code.
I had the original first issue once (it was given away to Fun Club subscribers after all). A lot of the artwork in NP in those days was taken from a Japanese Nintendo publication, I believe. The issue is notable for containing some interesting character art for Mario 2, including a two-page spread that was basically just an excuse to show the characters and various enemies competing in track-and-field events. The art isn't bad mind you, but it just goes to show how random Nintendo Power could be in those days.