Nintendo Power magazine being shuttered

by Andrew Yoon, Aug 21, 2012 10:45am PDT

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Update: The magazine's closure has been confirmed by senior editor Chris Hoffman, who promises to make the last issues "memorable."

Yet another gaming magazine icon is biting the dust. According to a new report, Future Publishing is discontinuing Nintendo Power.

The magazine is one of the longest-running gaming magazines, having started in 1988. Nintendo originally produced and distributed the magazine until 2007, when it outsourced the magazine to Future Publishing (who also produce "official" magazines for Xbox and PlayStation).

A source speaking to Ars Technica says that Nintendo was "uninterested" in renewing their contract with Future, or partaking in digital initiatives that were "necessary for the long-term health of the brand." The source says that Nintendo is not interested in taking control over the magazine again.

Current staff are already moving to other Future properties, including GamesRadar and MacLife. According to the report, it's unclear how many more issues of the magazine are still planned and how current subscribers will be compensated.

Last year saw the death of GamePro, another long-running gaming magazine.

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Andrew Yoon posted a new article, Report: Nintendo Power magazine being shuttered.

Yet another gaming magazine icon is biting the dust. According to a new report, Future Publishing is discontinuing Nintendo Power.

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- :'( : Yanks
- My childhood, shattered. :( : Deathlove
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  Sad, but not surprising I guess. This is Nintendo Power's legacy for me: http://chattypics.com/files/I... : nurglich
  - Rad \m/ : valcan_s
  - Awesome. : Ride-My-Rocket
  - Wow. Cool! : Kub666
  - Awesom, I used to love doing collages in High School, had a bunch of Wizard mags that I pilfered, cut and... : uebersoldat
  - Riker's head over Marle's shoulder makes the whole thing IMHO. : Vorlonesque
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  I'll repost this because it's a fun memory of NP: My 5th grade teacher destroyed my Ninja Gaiden issue... : pigvomit
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    I've still got my Final Fantasy 1 strategy guide. it's in tatters, and written all over, but it's still u... : vertdang
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      I still have my Nintendo Player's Guide too. http://www.videogameobsession.com/videogame/mags/books/bo... : pigvomit
      
      This was my bible growing up. : pigvomit
      
      Man I miss that thing, wish I could find one somewhere. I loved it back when all the NES games had gray b... : Schnapple
- My love/hate of 'official' mags go all the way back to Atari Age. Yeah, they had the inside scoop, but d... : daggot
- Time to re-watch this AVGN: Nintendo Power http://cinemassacre.com/2007/09/04/avgn-nintendo-power/ ... : Schnapple
- I used to love NP as a kid. Getting the subscriber bonuses were great, especially the strategy guides. An... : AndrewYoon
- I remember when I'd go to the bookstores in the local mall and spend hours skimming through no fewer than... : jtthe2nd
- Wow... Sadness : Metasparks
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  End of an era : rosewood
  - you stole my line! you stole my moment! : rtrson
- That sucks, i still got a lot of my old Nintendo Power magazines. I remember looking through em and getti... : Ziz
- I would always cut out pictures of characters and stuff from these magazines and put them all over my wal... : glio1337
- Used to buy a lot of them off the shelf. My first subscription issue was the reveal for Super Mario RPG a... : OzzieMejia
- :( RIP childhood : pancake humper
- I'd be upset since I had this as a kid but I uh am sort of part of the problem......PC game thanks you Ni... : FreshwaterAU
- Anyone still have one of the renewal pins they'd give you? http://www.flickriver.com/photos/garyfixle... : Schnapple
- Bastards : Goto10
- Damn it... I remember coming home every day running to the mailbox hoping the new issue of Nintendo Power... : Shadowdane
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  I bet everyone in this thread that is upset about this doesn't actually have a Nintendo Power subscriptio... : snot3353
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    Nintendo died shortly after releasing N64 in my eyes. : freakynipples69
    - Same for me. I had my subscription up to issue 70 or 80. I remember that I had the Killer Instinct issu... : Grumbeld
  - We do just renewed it a few months ago. It's been going downhill over the years though, the writing has b... : Goto10
  - It was a large part of my life for ~8 years growing up. All through the NES and SNES years.. : deathofrats
  - It's just one more piece of nostalgia dying. : one random winner
- I was obsessed with the NES version of Maniac Mansion (literally, obsessed with it) and the Maniac Mansio... : freakynipples69
- Ah man :( Who remembers those awesome strategy guides like this one: http://www.amazon.com/Strategy-Ni... : ghost in my shell
- 206-885-7529 :( : pgharavi
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  I recently sold my collection of about 70 Nintendo Power magazines. Was sad to see them go. : sanchez
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    I have a whole box just sitting in a garage. Want them? =| : Tawler
    - Put them up on craigslist, someone will buy them. I sold mine for $80. : sanchez
- awwwww fuck : boring gegtik
- I remember being in Junior High getting Nintendo Power in mail back when it was free. Brings back a lot o... : saturn96
- Ahhh oh well. : ejectorpod
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  I'm stupid because I thought Nintendo published it : GloriousCow
  - im stupid for other reasons : boring gegtik
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    They did until 2007. Honestly I'm not sure how much of this "don't want to renew the agreement" thing is ... : Schnapple
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      Digital publishing does though. : freakynipples69
      
      Does it? Much of traditional media has struggled to find better (or any) profits in digital content and t... : derelict515
    - As true as that is, I wouldn't have expected Nintendo to realize it. : stratedge
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  Speaking of classic Nintendo stuff, did any of you guys call the 1-900 tip line for Nintendo? I loved ... : OverloadUT
  - I did, only one time, but I can't for the life of me remember which game it was. : vertdang
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    YUP. Final Fantasy II questions galore. : Deathlove
    - Really? The magazine (issue 30) had the game all the way up to fighting Rubicant. I don't remember how ... : Grumbeld
- I used to read these in the library when I was a kid over all the other educational books. Sadface : supaLink
- Man. i love nintendo power. I got Issue #1 in a WE recently! was excited. : mindmann
- http://goo.gl/bxH6x : homeboyJim
- Noooo : shirif
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  Every day after school I'd rush into my room and was always delighted when a new, wrinkle-free issue of N... : David Craddock
  - I loved the level maps. It helped me lie about having more games than I did :( : GloriousCow
- They had a great run. : ughhhhhhh
- Meh. It died ages ago. After the SNES arrived it wasn't even the same magazine. The NES days were the bes... : avatar_58
- Wow. It's just one of those things that I assumed would always be there. I still have issues 1-50+ st... : liquidlies
- Future Networks is such a ridiculous monopoly - that company owns basically every print magazine out ther... : TabsAZ
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  haven't read it since the 90s. wow, their website is pretty shitty.
  
  Aug 21, 2012 12:44pm PDT
  
  haven't read it since the 90s. wow, their website is pretty shitty. : Korban
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  Wow, they still make this magazine? : om9zer
  - no, actually, they don't anymore. : harold.johnson
- I remember getting this as a subscriber bonus once. It was awesome! http://chattypics.com/files/20120... : moonfist80
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  I miss their Zelda comics :( : breadsticks
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    My mom got me the complete Zelda: ALTTP comic in graphic novel form for my birthday one year. : David Craddock
    - Oh man I had that too! : OverloadUT
- This makes me sad - I was in the magazine way back in the day as a kid. I got randomly picked from the c... : Crw22
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  What ever happened to Howard Phillips? Nintendo Power was never quite the same after he left. I woul... : Sideways Bob
  - Runs his own consulting company, haven't heard anything in the industry about him for years though. For ... : NeonGames_Kevin
- Nintendo Power still existed? : Ajax
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  And yet all they had to do to save it was make an iOS and Android version of it. : ovrlrd
  - I would pay good money for Android versions of back issues! : Vorlonesque
- NINTENDO POWER. NEVER FORGET : rtrson
- i literally wallpapered my room with cutouts from Nintendo Power, and newspaper comics (mostly far side a... : boring gegtik
- I remember In Elementary Nintendo Power walkthroughs for NES Zelda, Metroid... sigh.. I'm old now :( : rythex
- Aww man. :( : guido anchovy

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