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Nintendo Power's Final Cover
skade88 writes "Ars Technica has a review of the last-ever issue of Nintendo Power. It's bittersweet seeing a part of my childhood ending." Being in print for 25 years means it's got most single-platform computer magazines beat.
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the last-ever issue of Nintendo Power. It's bittersweet seeing a part of my childhood ending.
Yeah no kidding. I can't get over the demise of the Phonograph Monthly myself...
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
... this long considering magazines really haven't been relevant since the late 90's early 2000's for gaming.
This story was on Hacker News two days ago.
There was a time when Slashdot used to be the site that every other news aggregator cited. Now Slashdot seems to be a site that just cites other aggregators...two days later.
What is the "print" of which you speak?
Being in print for 25 years means it's got most single-platform computer magazines beat.
I think you meant "single-manufacturer".
It was no Nintendo Fun Club Newsletter.
It's so bad!
Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start
You need another life!
I'm kind of surprised that Nintendo is flat-out killing the Nintendo Power brand instead of just moving it online. I mean, it's not like video game journalism is dead. It's just moved entirely online. (Are there any print video game magazines left? That are still printing physical copies, that is. I'm not aware of any.)
I would have thought there'd still be demand for a Nintendo Power, just not in print form. I guess not? Or was there a website, that's since been replaced with the current information about going out of print?
It's kind of sad to see it go, but I haven't subscribed since the mid 90s, I guess. Still, it's a nice cover and a nice tribute to their first issue.
You are in a maze of twisty little relative jumps, all alike.
just sayin
...when you're already looking at a screen to play the game.
While I agree that Nintendo Power played a big part of my childhood, in retrospect, it seemed to be really a gigantic set of ads masked as articles. Every article made every game sound like it was good, with no mistaking the bias behind it. Maybe that was fine when Nintendo Power came first came out, both because the average quality was higher (and also perhaps when I was young and the parent were paying, I was less discriminating on quality). Today, we do have to sort through a boatload of bad games. What's needed is to call out the bad games if they're not pulling their weight. With the price of games today, it doesn't take long for bad purchases to add up quick. While I will miss Nintendo Power, I also miss Atari Age as well New Zork Times.
Being in print for 25 years means it's got most single-platform computer magazines beat.
The Chicago Cubs have been around since circa 1876, and last won a world series in 1908.... guess that makes them the single best baseball team ever.
PC World started in 83, Byte in the mid 70s, CGW in 81, and countless others on this list, let alone those local published underground ones for BBS's
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_magazine
/. is only a few days behind of the rest of the web. Feels like progress!
... but I choose to remember the mag through the innocent eyes of the kids I was. I don't care that the entire mag was a marketing stump for Nintendo. I enjoyed the mag when I was a kid, and I haunted the mailbox whenever an issue was due. Early on, when they were publishing strategy guides, I got all kinds of use out of them (Particularly Super Mario 3 and Final Fantasy).
I grew up poor, getting a new game was a once, maybe twice if we were lucky, a year thing. Every month or two mom could afford to let us rent something for a few days, and Nintendo Power gave me a way to look at what was coming out and judge if it was something I wanted to spend those precious rental or acquisition opportunities on.
The adult in me agrees with all the scorn and criticism heaped on the mag, especially as it grew longer in the tooth.
But the wide eyed child in me remembers those first few years of Nintendo Power with great fondness.
You can't complain that something is disappearing if you don't buy it anymore. That's the problem nobody else is either.
They saw this coming!
Nintendo Power's true final cover was in November 2007. When Future US took over publishing the magazine from Nintendo, it ceased to be Nintendo Power.
Meanwhile, Nintendo-Gamer (previously N-Gamer, NGC Magazine, N64 Magazine, Super Play), which I've been subscribed too since 1994 has also died.
I used to read that magazine over and over, copying the artwork, trying the cheats, spending hours which two games I was going to ask for for Christmas/my birthday (right next to each other).
Sad times.
NINTENDO POWER SUCKS, SEGA POWER FOREVER! (but seriously, it's sad to see it go. also i need this to get past cap filter)
"In the absence of the ability to establish the attribute of truth they tried to establish the noble attributes."