awilliams213
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The true thirst for the SNES was so real looking at those SMW/F-Zero/Pilotwings previews
Wow, I still remember how cool I thought the illustrations were that Jeffrey Scott Campbell made for that make your own video game contest featured in issue 6. Always thought that kid had talent so I just googled his name and turns out he went on to become a comic book artist.
God, during the 1990-1993 era, this magazine was just downright addictive.
I always remember though, during that sort of 1995-1996 interim, where the Saturn and PS1 were already out but the "Ultra 64" was still in development, layout duties changed from Japan to the U.S. and the magazine got kind of cluttered and ugly-looking (when the logo became 3D-rendered), and it just seemed like every issue was a combination of trying to sound excited about the Virtual Boy, printing endless coverage of the same N64 games that either wouldn't be out for a year-plus (if ever -- still technically waiting on an official North American release of what used to be Earthbound 64), and printing overlong articles on completely middling SNES and Game Boy licensed stuff after the North American market had faded on both of those platforms.
Then Pokemon happened and took over every issue and while the magazine had a second wind, I felt too old for all of it! (I still owned Blue anyway)
Nomamesnomamesnomames! <33333333
Yeah. There was a Retronauts about it.Whoa whoa whoa hold on, Nintendo Power was designed in Japan originally? I remember their sudden Kai's Power Tools / 3D craze mid 1990s, but always preferred the earlier look.
Is there an issue featuring Chrono Trigger, I would love to read it.
Yeah. There was a Retronauts about it.
The layout is basically the same as..... I want to say Famitsu?
Anyway it's a very Japanese 80s magazine style.
https://archive.org/details/nintendopower&tab=collection
Wow, what a blast from the past. Really takes me back to my childhood.
Is there a way to print these out legally?
I remember going back to this issue after playing FFVI and becoming familiar with Moogles and being like "what the fuck".![]()
Some of these artist interpretations of JRPG characters/creatures are really something else. The FFIV stuff was especially crazy.
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?
Dishing out per-character matchup knowledge in '92:
https://archive.org/stream/Nintendo_Power_Issue_038_July_1992#page/n93/mode/2up
Whoa! Thanks for this post. Them nostalgia feels. I had every issue from the first in 1988, until January 1995, lol.
You can download the .pdf file (or other files) on there and print them for personal use.
Though that would be a lot of color ink spent.
I see a lot of EGM and GamePro magazines too.
The days of the 300 page monster EGM magazines were amazing.
Someone should use the Final Fantasy Guidebook and play through using that.
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Pre-GAF hyperbole
Is there an issue featuring Chrono Trigger, I would love to read it.