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For approximately the SNES era and a bit after, I subscribed to Nintendo Power. This was the first ones I got in the mail. For some reason, they came together:   Of course, this is just the tip of the iceberg. There were a lot of game magazines. So, good news: archive.org has basically all of them. Post the best articles and the oddest ads
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EGM was always my favorite, always looked forward to those in the mail. Subscribed to them from 04 til about the end of their Ziff Davis days.
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Apr 15, 2020 18:38
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Next Generation was extremely my poo poo and I was super sad when they ceased publishing Some magazines at the time like PSM and poo poo tried wayyyyyyyyyyyyyy too hard to be funny with annoying captions and speech bubbles and comics and everything felt forced, so I appreciated NG not plastering stupid poo poo everywhere even if I disagreed with a bunch of reviews
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Apr 15, 2020 19:55
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PSM was so full of 90's ATTITUDE!!!! you could feel it oozing out of every page, but I still miss my original Playstation with the PSM eyepatch smiley disc lid sticker.
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Apr 15, 2020 20:08
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I loved Tips & Tricks a lot back in the day. We were usually broke, but I knew how to beat so many games I'd never even touched lol
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Apr 15, 2020 20:29
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Dj Meow Mix posted:I loved Tips & Tricks a lot back in the day. We were usually broke, but I knew how to beat so many games I'd never even touched lol Same In retrospect, it was like reading reviews of movies instead of watching movies, a vicarious experience of totally radd! solar jetman I think sushi-x might have been a weeaboo. Also the joke's on them: who could have foreseen the game boy lasting a million years? Also EGM was full service, they reviewed *arcade games*    
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Apr 16, 2020 02:19
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I has this for the SNES. It was poo poo in ways you can't imagine The wiki also says there were extra features in the Amiga version?! 
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Apr 16, 2020 02:50
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Join the Nintendo Fun Club today! EGM was was my poo poo because it was a gateway to Japan's Famitsu.
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Apr 16, 2020 03:05
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I read a lot of UK Nintendo magazines in the 90s because there were no dedicated Nintendo mags in Finland at that point. N64 Magazine was obviously the best one, but I mostly read Nintendo Official Magazine because the language was so much simpler and easier for me to understand as a young kid who had just started learning English at school. In hindsight, NOM circa 1998-2000 was half Nintendo advertisement, half cult manual for children. While most official mags would generally avoid mention of competing consoles or very briefly acknowledge them if a game got ported, NOM went all in with the console warrior poo poo. They could not stop making GBS threads on the PlayStation, or "Fony GreyStation" as they so creatively called it. According to NOM, the N64 dominated the console market and the GreyStation was a failure with no good games whatsoever, and if a PlayStation game got ported to the N64 they were quick to talk up how much better the N64 version is than that lovely old GreyStation rubbish. There was a monthly feature named "Mario's Hammer Time" where readers would send in a PlayStation or Saturn console or peripheral to, well, get smashed with a hammer. On the letters page, the "best" (i.e. most positive about Nintendo) letters won some pretty impressive prizes each month.
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Apr 16, 2020 16:06
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Nebakenezzer posted:I think sushi-x might have been a weeaboo. I believe that while the idea originated with a staff writer, eventually everyone was ghostwriting as Sushi-X.
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Apr 16, 2020 21:41
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I had a bunch of posts in the Retro Goon Gaming Club thread where I dove into old Nintendo Power magazines (and a few times Sega Visions) to give an idea of what magazines were talking about during games being discussed in the thread at the time. Some folks seemed to enjoy it, so here's a batch of them in that thread. And here's me quote-posting the first of that batch, wherein I talk about the Top 30/20 charts and how weird they were calculated.Mercury Crusader posted:I don't have any fun (annoying) history tidbits for ALttP because I figure everybody knows everything about Nintendo history at this point.
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Apr 16, 2020 22:51
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Game Informer had staples and was better than GamePro
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Apr 23, 2020 21:52
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I've got the first 100 Nintendo Power issues, all read only once
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Apr 24, 2020 09:48
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Nebakenezzer posted:Danyon Wow Danyon sure has some opinions.
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Apr 24, 2020 13:06
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Mean Machines and then Gamesmaster for me. When the PlayStation came along I bought the official mag for the demo discs but bought Play for the largely unbiased reviews.
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Apr 24, 2020 16:50
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The Official Australian Playstation Magazine was really odd, because for like five years it had no filter whatsoever. I'm fairly certain I learned how to swear from reading it, and the staff referred to the editor as "The Black Pig". Eventually Sony got them to reign it in, but it was a good mag overall. I remember one year they had a tear out section detailing every PS1 game that was at E3, including Too Human, which at that point was about you being a cop whose partner was killed and you could replace your body parts with cyborg bits.
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Apr 25, 2020 07:03
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kirbysuperstar posted:The Official Australian Playstation Magazine was really odd, because for like five years it had no filter whatsoever. I'm fairly certain I learned how to swear from reading it, and the staff referred to the editor as "The Black Pig". The Australian gaming magazines (PC Powerplay, Atomic) in general were a lot better than their US counterparts because the writers/staff were writing for people their age group, instead of trying to keep it PG rated so as to not corrupt the children. It's probably been mentioned already but the whole PC Powerplay back-catalogue is free to view and download on https://archive.org (https://archive.org/details/PCPowerplay). Jomo fucked around with this message at 14:39 on Apr 30, 2020 |
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Apr 30, 2020 14:37
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PC Powerplay was loving excellent, yeah. I never read much Atomic but I always heard it was good.
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Apr 30, 2020 14:50
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kirbysuperstar posted:PC Powerplay was loving excellent, yeah. I never read much Atomic but I always heard it was good. I'm reading an issue now: https://archive.org/details/PCPowerplay-014-1997-07/mode/2up Dark Reign is on the cover. Can I just say I tried playing Dark Reign several times and could not get into it? This issue also features:
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Apr 30, 2020 16:42
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Had a subscription to Nintendo Power from 92-97 but the best magazine in that time period for me was Game Players. I feel GP was at it's peak around 95-97 (didn't read when it became Ultra Game Players) when the weird humor started to take off, which 12 year old me found to be hilarious at the time. I remember writing in a few times and being disappointed that my letters were never printed. Around 97 or so I switched to EGM for a few years which was an awesome magazine. Now I have several boxes filled with back issues of NP and GP that are just gathering dust and are a real pain the rear end to deal with when moving. Might be time to put them on eBay.
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Apr 30, 2020 17:03
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I went to retromags and downloaded the 200GB torrent of every game magazine they have and I've been going through a lot of them; my favorite era is 1993-1996 because it's when SNES games were getting stupidly good and companies were putting out a lot of experimental stuff. Reading this stuff as an adult, Game Player's is the most readable and EGM is pretty bad (just from a grammar and interest standpoint). I also noticed Game Player's "predictions/rumors" were 99% on the mark and the "Quarterman" rumor section of EGM was 80% full of poo poo. I am dying to read Game Player's review of Illusion of Gaia but there's some issues missing in the RetroMags torrent and of course that's one of them. If anyone knows which issue it's in, please let me know. I'll buy it on eBay and scan it. Mercury Crusader posted:I had a bunch of posts in the Retro Goon Gaming Club thread where I dove into old Nintendo Power magazines (and a few times Sega Visions) to give an idea of what magazines were talking about during games being discussed in the thread at the time. Some folks seemed to enjoy it, so here's a batch of them in that thread. And here's me quote-posting the first of that batch, wherein I talk about the Top 30/20 charts and how weird they were calculated. How the hell did Nintendo Power still have SNES charts in December 1998? There were zero games released that year!
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Apr 30, 2020 20:07
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Did anyone enter the Nintendo Power contests? I won second place in the Automobili Lamborghini 64 contest and got the game and a leather jacket that I still have 20+ years later. It's a nice jacket. I had been a Nintendo Power loyalist until I got a copy of EGM for Christmas. Holy cow that was eye opening, the reviewers were allowed to tear junk to pieces and could cover all the systems. Plus it was the first place I read Seanbaby. Good times.
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Apr 30, 2020 21:43
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Did anyone enter the Nintendo Power contests? I never did until the Killer Instinct arcade cabinet one, in 1995 or so. I never wanted something so bad in my life. I think I sent away 30 postcards or something. I got 3rd prize which was just some Mario t-shirt. I ended up buying my own Killer Instinct machine as a high school freshman in 1997 making $4.50 an hour as a stockboy. I found some guy on the other side of the country selling it for $400 on a newsgroup and I had to pick the thing up from the local airport with my dad's friend who had a pickup.
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May 1, 2020 00:57
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My brother could have won something for doing something by playing Activision's Enduro. (Total rip-off of Sega's arcade game Turbo.) They went on to rip many more. But this reminds of Electronic Games magazine where I first heard of Jumpman and Miner 20409er?
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May 1, 2020 01:28
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These are the oldest issues I have: Nintendo Power #103, December 1997  Electronic Gaming Monthly's Player's Guide to Video Games for the Nintendo 64 #3, Winter 1997  ^ EDIT: Better pic now. ^ Tips & Tricks #38, April 1998 (alternate Canada-only cover)  GamePro #117, June 1998  Electronic Gaming Monthly #110, September 1998  1999 Video Game Buyer's Guide (Fall 1998)  Aside from the Nintendo 64 one, which is printed on thick paper (and was in turn expensive), my own copies don't look this nice...they've been loved half to death. ^_^ Synthetic Hermit fucked around with this message at 10:59 on Sep 30, 2020 |
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May 1, 2020 01:56
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Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:How the hell did Nintendo Power still have SNES charts in December 1998? There were zero games released that year! No idea. Even the NES got rotated out of the charts once 1995 started (Wario's Woods being the last North American NES game a few months prior), but they kept pushing for those SNES charts, even as the chart basically cemented itself into just Link to the Past and RPGs. Whether folks agree with that charting, it's not very interesting to see every month, nor does it serve as a good history timeline into what people where actually playing when the SNES was still getting new releases and gaming trends were evolving overtime. At least Game Boy would re-invent itself every few years when you'd think it would be done throughout the 90s (Super Game Boy, Game Boy Pocket, Pokemon) I've been collecting old Nintendo Power issues for a long time, probably about as long as I've been collecting NES games. I own most of the NES-era issues and N64-era issues, and a couple months ago I was able to acquire most of the SNES-era issues, something I had been without for a long time as well. Don't own too many post-N64-era issues, just a few random GCN-era and like one Wii-era issue, as well as the final issue. The post-N64-era issue just don't seem to be as interesting as the earlier eras, probably because The Internet was more a thing by that point. Mercury Crusader fucked around with this message at 07:24 on May 1, 2020 |
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May 1, 2020 07:20
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...Really? I'm gonna be that guy, huh? Yeah, I had a subscription to GamePro. Early 90's to about 2000 or so. I didn't care about which magazine was best, my mom paid for it and I just wanted to know what games were coming down the pipe. While cleaning out the basement of my parent's place a few years ago, it turned out my late mother had saved most of our gamepro magazines. While it would've been cool to keep all of them, it wasn't practical for any of us. My brother and I only picked a few magazines that stuck out and threw the rest into the trash. I didn't know a central repository of old video game magazines existed until today. Seems like they have most if not all of gamepro so maybe it's time for a stroll down memory lane.
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May 2, 2020 00:52
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I was way into OPM mostly for the demos. Bought a copy of one issue late last year to find some obscure article and forgot how loving ad-poisoned old game mags were.Hyrax Attack! posted:Did anyone enter the Nintendo Power contests? I won a set of Tales of Symphonia cards once. Would have rather had that replica Sword of Mana they gave away tho.
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May 12, 2020 19:27
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I remember getting this VHS and just eating it up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0i_SI63I70 and, this whole thing  also, this gently caress from pc mag demo discs 
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May 15, 2020 02:29
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bobthenameless posted:also, this gently caress from pc mag demo discs Would coconut monkey be considered inappropriate today? Great, now you reminded me when PC gamer deliberately designed the worst possible Quake 2 levels Some of them were really funny, actually  Check out what cable it uses:  bobthenameless posted:I remember getting this VHS and just eating it up Same but this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rv_YCSbWP78
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May 15, 2020 16:44
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I had every Nintendo power from Issue 1 through mid-N64ish and threw them out myself when I went off to college. All the bonuses too... strategy guides, posters, those NES and gameboy decal stickers, the Donkey Kong Country VHS tape, all of it. Not that they were mint condition collectibles or anything but it would have probably got me a few hundo on eBay? My real favorite though was my subscription to PC gaming magazine Computer Gaming World. As a teenager it made me feel like I was reading a serious, adult critique on the Art of Video Games and not that kiddie EGM poo poo. They reviewed hex wargames and heavy RPGs! Then they let buffoon Jeff Green take over editorship and it got too silly and ‘fun’. How dare people have fun with video games!
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May 16, 2020 17:23
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I actually paid off my student loans by selling back issues of nintendo power to diaper wearing IT guys on ebay
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May 16, 2020 18:27
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Pakistani Brad Pitt posted:I had every Nintendo power from Issue 1 through mid-N64ish and threw them out myself when I went off to college. All the bonuses too... strategy guides, posters, those NES and gameboy decal stickers, the Donkey Kong Country VHS tape, all of it. Mods can we get a trigger/content warning on this please thanks? I'd love to have all my old Nintendo Powers back. Before the internet was widespread, it really did feel to me like thumbing through a gaming mag was the only way to participate in this abstract community. It felt special in a way that doesn't happen so much anymore.
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May 18, 2020 02:57
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I miss the Super Power Club pamphlets so much. I want an Illusion of Gaia baseball hat so bad
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May 18, 2020 16:41
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Whenever I think of gaming magazines I think of reading them at the grocery store as my mom shopped. Tips and Tricks was a godsend before the internet and discovering GAMEFAQs. Also now we are so use to instant news but waiting for gaming magazines to come out for that bit of news about new games was so exciting. My favorite growing up was EGM, mostly just because of the size, I feel like they always had the largest issues. Also, I am loving that other people remember how 90s EXTREME PSM was, who else remembers those "swimsuit" issues they had?
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May 25, 2020 02:14
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I got EGM free for like a decade after abusing those online free magazine surveys, and a lot of my friends did the same Probably didn't help them in the long run Game Players in the very early 90s was a quality magazine - I remember hunting down old issues at flea markets to figure out what used NES cartridges were worth buying
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May 25, 2020 03:24
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Oh! I remember there was a video game magazine I bought that had a cover story on the first WWF Smackdown game, and inside there was an interview with The Hardy Boyz about doing motion capture work on the game Does anyone remember what magazine that was? I remember that was one of my favorite back issues to look through
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May 25, 2020 03:28
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kirbysuperstar posted:PC Powerplay was loving excellent, yeah. I never read much Atomic but I always heard it was good. I had a subscription to Hyper. I also got random copies of N64 Gamer, PCPP and Official Xbox Magazine (These two for demo disc purposes).
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MorrisBae posted:I got EGM free for like a decade after abusing those online free magazine surveys, and a lot of my friends did the same Pretty much all magazines make the vast majority of their money from ad sales; subscription fees are a pittance in comparison. It's always been a common practice for magazine publishers to sell subscriptions at a deep discount, or give them away for free. It costs them almost nothing and gives them the benefit of boosting their subscriber count, which gives them leverage to negotiate higher prices when selling their ad space. You weren't actually abusing anything. EGM knew exactly what they were doing with the free subscriptions. Using the surveys to get a free decade of EGM did help them. A lot. They wanted people to do what you did. They wanted the subscriber numbers much more than they wanted the subscription fees. Nothing for you to feel guilty about! 
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