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."

Comments

Speaking of Mike Tyson's Punch-Out

[everyplace]

007-373-5963
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.

Re:Speaking of Mike Tyson's Punch-Out

[whiteranger99x]

I don't know what's more sad....the fact that I also remember that code...or the fact that I actually memorized the tones moving and entering the numbers in made..

AAAAAAAAAAAH it's back in my head!! XD!!

Re:I remember borrowing this magazine

[whiteranger99x]

Heh, back in that time I remember I saw a guy that was like 5 years older than me returning The Legend of Zelda cause it was "too hard" and he couldn't find anything. Needless to say, I bragged about how I knew how to get to Level 9 and get the magical sword and other shit....if both our parents weren't around, I'm pretty sure I would've got my ass kicked for bragging :P

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...