Undead Fantasy
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Every issue of Nintendo Power has been uploaded to archive.org
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Magnet_Man
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Oh dear.
Didn't they turned into bi-monthly magazine? I remember reading something that the monthly release will stop.
Oh man, I loved their N64 era. I remember going to the local store and buying the magazine every single month for years. Reading about Perfect Dark and Majora's Mask there was quite an experience.
Light Hobo
Neo Member
awesome - still not getting rid of my old ones though... especially the one with the Earthbound scratch n' sniff
alfredofroylan
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Wish they could do the same with Sega Vision
Seeing the Super Mario 3 cover in the mail was the most excited I can remember something making me as a kid.
That made me feel like Cartman wanting to freeze himself until the game came out. The wait seemed endless.
If you weren't that young, imagine being an 8 year old and having playing only Super Mario Bros 1 and 2 and then flip though that issue.
That made me feel like Cartman wanting to freeze himself until the game came out. The wait seemed endless.
If you weren't that young, imagine being an 8 year old and having playing only Super Mario Bros 1 and 2 and then flip though that issue.
sixteen-bit
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That's pretty neat.
Vincent Grayson
Member
I still remember every Summer how I'd get close to when I thought my new issue would come, and I'd sit at the window every day around the time the mail would come so I could check for it.
Zombie James
Banned
Oh shit, I used to have such a huge collection of these. I think they might still be at my parents' place somewhere. This is going to be fun.
Omegasquash
Member
Oh my god.
Those were the days.
Hayama Akito
Member
They regret the decision as far as i know.
thepenguin55
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Correction: It has every NP from when NP was relevant. lol
I don't see it being likely, here. I mean, it's not like you can actually buy/download these issues any more, and so, putting them up for free takes money away from Nintendo.
alfredofroylan
Member
Thanks.
Edit: WOW, Sega Visions resolution is way better than the NP magazines.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
I'm happy this is easily available online. I knew there were torrents of CBRs floating around, but who could be bothered. Now I can just check them any time.
Dishing out per-character matchup knowledge in '92:
https://archive.org/stream/Nintendo_Power_Issue_038_July_1992#page/n93/mode/2up
https://archive.org/stream/Nintendo_Power_Issue_038_July_1992#page/n93/mode/2up
Rodney McKay
Member
Awesome!
I just need the copies with Banjo Kazooie and Tooie guides and I'll be all set.
I just need the copies with Banjo Kazooie and Tooie guides and I'll be all set.
NoKisum
Member
Yeah but they were once paid items from Nintendo as well. Lost money from not getting fans to rebuy old issues directly from Nintendo out of nostalgia. That's why it seems likely we'll see a C&D order on this.
sixteen-bit
Member
I remember thinking that SF2 looked so cool in that article. They really knew how to hype their games.
Mac the KNife
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The 90's sure were a crazy time. Someone should use both the Mega Man and Rush faces as avatars.
This is the first issue I recall having. Games were so mysterious back then, getting each new issue was so exciting.
SinCityAssassin
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Does it include fullscans of the posters?
Gamecocks625
Member
Amazing. That's my childhood right there.
YoungBuck219
Neo Member
Brings back memories.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
GameCube was well into the Internet era, though.
I'm sure some kids loved that era, but you have to understand that NP was the main point of contact between 80s/90s kids and gaming fandom itself. No internet... Just a magazine dropped from the gods on high.
FleetingFlowAir
Member
Oh yes.
So, they're back to the monthly release? Cool, I guess.
I stopped reading the magazine around 2002; the quality had went down awfully; and by then, EGM on Español appeared, so i started reading that one.
Thanks for the link!
I still have a lot of these, along with Super Juegos, Hobby Consolas, Action Games, Top Kids and Loading from back in the 90's. I remember liking Super Juegos a lot, the quality of the paper made it better in my eyes (which was the only thing I cared about, the quality of the screenshots).
Erdrick
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This takes me back... The issue in July or August 1991, with the Mega Man II Game Boy cover, I read that over and over that summer. The DQIII section in that was such a tease at the time. Sure, it spoiled the game, essentially, but I was salivating over the game evern further after reading it. I went to so many stores looking for that game, SNES be damned at the time. Unfortunately, I wouldn't play the game until mid-February 1992 via rental and then finally buy the game in September of 1992.
This magazine was the hype machine for NES games back then. They could promote stuff like no one else at the time.
See also the madness that was SMB3's hype.
This magazine was the hype machine for NES games back then. They could promote stuff like no one else at the time.
See also the madness that was SMB3's hype.
https://archive.org/stream/Nintendo_Power_Issue_085_June_1996#page/n31/mode/2up
This early version of Wave Race 64 looks really sad. Where da waves at?
This early version of Wave Race 64 looks really sad. Where da waves at?
eyeball_kid
Member
So many of these covers are immediately recognizable. Funny the amount of relatively useless stuff our brains keep locked away.
I would love to see a Super Mario game in this clay style. Pretty much doable with the tech at this point.
I would love to see a Super Mario game in this clay style. Pretty much doable with the tech at this point.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
They just made a clay Kirby game, so it's doable.
WeAreStarStuff
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I cannot handle the amount of nostalgia....this really takes me back.
family_guy
Member
In for the Mario and Zelda comic strips.
Welp, time to go back and read through those old Mario and Starfox comics.
I really loved the art they displayed prominently in the various header sections, too, which was never the same thing twice. One of the coolest things about old game mags is how much original art they integrated to really give them a unique character you couldn't find anywhere else. Game mags moving more and more into just cutting and pasting the same screenshots and official art you could find any ol' where is where they lost their magic.
I really loved the art they displayed prominently in the various header sections, too, which was never the same thing twice. One of the coolest things about old game mags is how much original art they integrated to really give them a unique character you couldn't find anywhere else. Game mags moving more and more into just cutting and pasting the same screenshots and official art you could find any ol' where is where they lost their magic.
Chittagong
Gold Member
Probably the same place as the jet skis in this version
https://archive.org/stream/Nintendo_Power_Issue_080_January_1996#page/n29/mode/2up
Wow, early Super NES logo had the bottom bar colours reversed
https://archive.org/details/Nintendo_Power_Issue_026_July_1991
And prototype US Super NES controller didn't have convex buttons, even though they were purple
https://archive.org/stream/Nintendo_Power_Issue_027_August_1991#page/n69/mode/2up
https://archive.org/details/Nintendo_Power_Issue_062_July_1994
I was so absolutely hyped for Breath of Fire, and this was one of the most read issues I had because of it.
EDIT: However, these are fairly low res. Hard to make out the images. :/
I was so absolutely hyped for Breath of Fire, and this was one of the most read issues I had because of it.
EDIT: However, these are fairly low res. Hard to make out the images. :/
I didn't read Nintendo Power until the late 00's, so this "collection" is beyond useless for me.
The old logo is also vastly overrated. Yellow on red needs to stay in the 80s.
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