RIP Nintendo Power

[Pike]

Source: Nintendo Power magazine to cease publication (updated) | Ars Technica (http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/08/source-nintendo-power-magazine-to-cease-publication/)


Gamers of a certain age likely remember the days when their main fix of information about new and upcoming video games came in the form of the monthly Nintendo Power magazine that was delivered directly to their mailbox. That experience is set to become yet another relic of a past era, as Ars Technica has learned that Future Publishing is planning to stop publishing the magazine.

Nooo I grew up with this magazine :crying:

[Madame Adequate]

A truly sad day. I know your pain Nintendbros, us SEGA babies have been through the same sort of thing in times past.

[Raistlin]

Wow, I remember reading Nintendo Power in the '90s; I didn't even realize it was still around. This was back in the relative youth of the internet, where gaming magazines were still big business. A sad day indeed.

[CimminyCricket]

I have not picked one up in a long time, but this is like the last episode of a cartoon I like. :C

[Jowy]

i always thumb through nintendo power when i go grocery shopping

:aimsad:

[krissy]

egm went digital a few years ago it was a really big deal
never read nintendo power but shame to see it go
i love my stack of OPM's somewhere in my basement
and i still have all the demo discs except the one with the brave fencer musashi/silent hill demos that i borrowed and never got back >:{

[Sephex]

Man, I used to be all about Nintendo Power. I stopped my subscription many years ago, but I remember looking at a few recent issues and thinking that they were doing a great job for how gaming is today. At my parents house, I still have many surviving issues of the magazine from mainly the 90s. Even as a kid I knew a good chunk of the magazine was to try to get me to beg my parents to get the latest game, but in the pre-internet days, having a magazine catered around video games was always cool in my book, especially Nintendo Power. It just had a certain charm to it.

Thanks for being there for me, NP.

[Agent Proto]

I used to collect Nintendo Power back in the 90's! I had a subscription and all, but eventually I stopped when it turned out I could get the information online and the magazine wasn't what it used to be now (by about 2001), but I do buy a magazine once in awhile if something catches my eye...

alas, RIP Nintendo Power.

[Polnareff]

Terrible news. I collected this magazine for years. I stopped for a while when they kept bashing on Sony and Sega, but picked it up again in later years and they'd toned all that down.

Funny part is, I was just looking through the latest issue at the store where I work at. Now I'll definitely buy it.

[Pike]

I was introduced to so many new games through this magazine just because they "sounded cool". They had a preview for Pokemon well before it ever came to the US and I remember thinking "Hey... that actually sounds pretty fun."

I also remember that, for a while, you could send in a list of your favorite games per console and then they'd count everyone's votes up and make a "Readers' Favorites" chart. Not long after the N64 was introduced they retired the favorites chart for the SNES because none of the games' positions there were moving; the players' votes on favorite games had all crystalized at the end of the console's lifespan. I remember the top three games on that final chart very clearly: Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy 6, and Super Mario RPG. Ya done good, Square.

[Alpha2099]

I have a handful of Nintendo Power magazines, but I was always more of a Game Informer person myself.

[Jinx]

You people all stopped reading which is why it's going kaput.

[The Man]

I still have a stack of these somewhere. R.I.P.

[Hollycat]

Now you know how I feel about Shonen Jump.

[Agent Proto]

You people all stopped reading which is why it's going kaput.

Actually, the magazine may have stopped issuing, but Nintendo Power still lives on through the Internet.

[Goldenboko]

shit. I feel old.

[Jiro]

Never read it, I don't think, but it's a sad day nonetheless.

[KentaRawr!]

You people all stopped reading which is why it's going kaput.

Actually, the magazine may have stopped issuing, but Nintendo Power still lives on through the Internet.

Why didn't it occur to me that there would be a website? I'm a goof.

But yeah, I ended my subscription to this a while ago because I figured I could get all the same info from the net. But I really like some of their articles! There was an interview with the guy who did the sound design for a good chunk of the Silent Hill games that was really enlightening. I wish I could remember what issue it was from. :P I'll totally bookmark the website now! :D

[DMKA]

Man, I remember reading Nintendo Power back in elementary school! We had a subscription and got one in the mail every month. I remember an issue from when Earthbound first came out, the whole issue was about the game and for some reason was full of scratch n' sniff garbage pictures that smelled really, really bad.

I also remember when N64 was first being released they sent us a VHS tape all about it with PRO GAMERS on it and how INEXPLICABLY PERPLEXED EVEN THESE PROS WERE BY THE ADVANCED GAMING TECHNOLOGY. It was all 90S EXTREME and cheesy as hell. :p

EDIT: And of course, it's on YouTube! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv9hgPhh4HU)

I have many a happy memory with Nintendo Power, even though I haven't seen one since the N64 days.

[Polnareff]

Now you know how I feel about Shonen Jump.

Losing Shonen Jump to digital only was no big shakes. After April 2005, the magazine got pretty bad, IMO. Especially when it came to them not being able to decide what series to keep in there and what ones to get rid of. I really hate the fact they took Shaman King out, for example, because it was really starting to get good. I think the only manga that actually ended their runs in the print version were Yu-Gi-Oh and Yu Yu Hakusho. That's pretty messed up.

[Hollycat]

Now you know how I feel about Shonen Jump.

Losing Shonen Jump to digital only was no big shakes. After April 2005, the magazine got pretty bad, IMO. Especially when it came to them not being able to decide what series to keep in there and what ones to get rid of. I really hate the fact they took Shaman King out, for example, because it was really starting to get good. I think the only manga that actually ended their runs in the print version were Yu-Gi-Oh and Yu Yu Hakusho. That's pretty messed up.

It is, but One Piece, and Naruto were still there.
TBH I skipped all the yugioh besides the ones in the very beginning where people died.

[Slothy]

I don't think I'll miss Nintendo Power (there reviews were quite questionable from what I remember), but it's always sad to see the slow death of print media. I loved having an actual physical magazine I could hold in my hands back in the day. I may want the gradual push to a Star Trek like future in a lot of ways, but I like's my physical informations.

[theundeadhero]

Oh man, I haven't even seen an issue in at least 15 years. I still hve some old issues laying around that covered games of interest like FF Legends II. I also have the first magazine issue, and some of the newletters before it actually became a magazine.

[Sephex]

DMKA's post reminded me of the hilarious Star Fox 64 video they sent me before.

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[Pike]

But that's a GREAT video! I had it on VHS as well.

[Sephex]

But that's a GREAT video! I had it on VHS as well.

Did they also send you the Diddy Kong Racing one?

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Or wait! Going old schoolish, the Donkey Kong Country one! Man, this one SCREAMS the 90s.

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[Pike]

You know what else they sent me? This orchestrated soundtrack to Super Smash Bros. Melee. Man. Nintendo Power was great.

[Roogle]

There was a poll on GameFAQs about this. I think one of the options said something like, "It's sad, but nobody reads magazines anymore," which sums up how I feel for the most part. I still have old copies of the magazine at my house in St. Louis.

[Evastio]

I remember going to the library as a kid and always checking the latest edition of Nintendo power. I even did that about five months ago. It brought back memories.

We'll miss you Nintendo Power.

[Del Murder]

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[Pike]

Awesome, Del.

[Skyblade]

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And the EBay price has now skyrocketed.

[sabin101]

I remember back in the day reading nintendo power and I do remember one issue where they had a contest where you could win the phone booth from bill and ted's excellent adventure. It is sad it will not be around anymore but we can always keep it going on the interwebb.

[Mercen-X]

I just Nintendo Power at Walmart yesterday.

My first encounter with this magazine was when I was 17 or so. My cousin had been collecting them for years and just up and decided to unload them on me. I carved a lot of them up and stashed some of my favorite pics in a photo album. That didn't hold together so well though. I think I made a few collages that I "stapled" together by photo copier. I lose a lot of stuff though. Today, I think I have like 40 magazines left out of a stash of close to 300. Now my collection is mostly comprised of PSM and GIM and AI and Otaku mags.

[Nice]

I never really got into N Power, but I understand the loss suffered by its demise. When Electronic Gaming Monthly called it quits, that was awful, it just sucked. I think they only do a digital mag nowadays.