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Nintendo Power
Aug. 29th, 2015 10:10 pmYou know, as I was cleaning out some boxes I found a couple of oooold Nintendo Power issues I have kicking around. I didn't get these particular issues back in the day - I got them at a used book store a year or two ago. However, back in the day I -did- have copies of these issues along with probably 48+ more. I had kept a subscription with them during most of highschool starting with the Mega Man 2 issue.
The two I have here in front of me is Vol 45 (Cover includes Pugsley's Scavenger Hunt) and Vol 17 - The Nintendo Power Strategy Guide for Final Fantasy 1. It kind of brings back a lot of memories of reading these things and others like it.
I kept the subscription up until it was well into the SNES era I think. At that point it seemed to lose part of it's charm for me. They had changed the format a few times and the newer copies just seemed to be missing something so eventually I just let the subscription lapse and never bothered to renew. It might have been the artwork in the earlier issues - something they tended to do to augment the more pixelated nature of the NES and Gameboy. Although also I never played quite as large a variety of SNES games.
Should try to get back to that used bookstore (it's out of town) at some point later this year or next to see if there's any other issues hanging around. I think the issues I picked up were some of the earliest ones they had available however... then again they had a bunch of other old video game magazines I probably wouldn't mind picking up a copy of...
The two I have here in front of me is Vol 45 (Cover includes Pugsley's Scavenger Hunt) and Vol 17 - The Nintendo Power Strategy Guide for Final Fantasy 1. It kind of brings back a lot of memories of reading these things and others like it.
I kept the subscription up until it was well into the SNES era I think. At that point it seemed to lose part of it's charm for me. They had changed the format a few times and the newer copies just seemed to be missing something so eventually I just let the subscription lapse and never bothered to renew. It might have been the artwork in the earlier issues - something they tended to do to augment the more pixelated nature of the NES and Gameboy. Although also I never played quite as large a variety of SNES games.
Should try to get back to that used bookstore (it's out of town) at some point later this year or next to see if there's any other issues hanging around. I think the issues I picked up were some of the earliest ones they had available however... then again they had a bunch of other old video game magazines I probably wouldn't mind picking up a copy of...
