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Nintendo Power To Shut Down
stillnotelf writes "Ars Technica is reporting that the official Nintendo magazine, Nintendo Power, is shutting down after 24 years. The gaming magazine has been run by independent publisher Future US since 2007, but Ars Technica's source and deleted Twitter posts say that Nintendo is uninterested in continuing the paper magazine in today's digital age, and also unwilling to convert it into a primarily digital experience. There's been no official confirmation of the cancellation or word of how many issues remain of this bit of childhood nostalgia for so many gamers."
Gamespot, like everyone else.
Steve Wozniak was denied a Game Boy Tetris high-score listing in Nintendo Power, so he resubmitted his score with his name spelled backwards (Evets Kainzow), and they printed it! Classic moment in crossover Apple/Nintendo geekery... They later gave in and published his photo and a paragraph about his Tetris obsession.
For those who remember Nintendo Power and are feeling nostalgic, there's a good cover gallery with a smattering of selected inside pages (sadly, Woz's high score in issue 24 doesn't seem to be among the scans).
No shit. This is about Nintendo Power, not Nintendo. If Nintendo were to shut down the Internet would explode and millions of gamers around the world would simultaneously commit suicide by banging their heads against bricks, jumping down random pipes, and eating strange mushrooms.
Nintendo power was fun propoganda to get you hyped up to play video games in the 80s. As a kid, I loved that stuff. Games were already fun, but when you have a magazine talking about strategies, and easter eggs when there was no internet to get any discussion, that was indeed great times!
NES era was a huge time in my childhood because the jump from atari2600 to NES was so huge that you never knew what they could make next as a video game, and the games for NES were really fun compared to atari2600 games which rapidly got boring, but I played them anyway because there was no alternative. Around 1989 is when I realized I wanted to be come a computer game programmer, and it was when I was standing around a bunch of NES games we played out and I was getting kinda bored with.
God spoke to me
I remember the promotional material they did for the original Final Fantasy. It seemed like that went on forever, but i was a kid so it was probably only one or two issues right before the game came out. Then the next three issues after it came out they did trivia contests. I entered all three, and got second place in one of them!
I won... a neon pink fanny pack. I believe it came stuffed with a t-shirt and some chocolate coins. The t-shirt was kind of crappy, and the coins were quickly consumed. And the neon pink fanny pack was... neon pink and a fanny pack. So kind of the worst prize ever, but i remember the shit out of having actually won something!
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