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Andrew Yoon posted a new article,
Report: Nintendo Power magazine being shuttered
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Yet another gaming magazine icon is biting the dust. According to a new report, Future Publishing is discontinuing Nintendo Power.
Aug 21, 2012 10:45am PDT
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Andrew Yoon posted a new article,
Report: Nintendo Power magazine being shuttered
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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. :(
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Deathlove
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Sad, but not surprising I guess. This is Nintendo Power's legacy for me: http://chattypics.com/files/I...
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nurglich
Rad \m/
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valcan_s
Awesome.
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Ride-My-Rocket
Wow. Cool!
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Kub666
Awesom, I used to love doing collages in High School, had a bunch of Wizard mags that I pilfered, cut and...
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uebersoldat
Riker's head over Marle's shoulder makes the whole thing IMHO.
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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...
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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...
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vertdang
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I still have my Nintendo Player's Guide too. http://www.videogameobsession.com/videogame/mags/books/bo...
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pigvomit
This was my bible growing up.
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pigvomit
Man I miss that thing, wish I could find one somewhere. I loved it back when all the NES games had gray b...
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Schnapple
My love/hate of 'official' mags go all the way back to Atari Age. Yeah, they had the inside scoop, but d...
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daggot
Time to re-watch this
AVGN: Nintendo Power
http://cinemassacre.com/2007/09/04/avgn-nintendo-power/ ...
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Schnapple
I used to love NP as a kid. Getting the subscriber bonuses were great, especially the strategy guides. An...
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AndrewYoon
I remember when I'd go to the bookstores in the local mall and spend hours skimming through no fewer than...
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jtthe2nd
Wow... Sadness
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Metasparks
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End of an era
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rosewood
you stole my line! you stole my moment!
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rtrson
That sucks, i still got a lot of my old Nintendo Power magazines. I remember looking through em and getti...
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Ziz
I would always cut out pictures of characters and stuff from these magazines and put them all over my wal...
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glio1337
Used to buy a lot of them off the shelf. My first subscription issue was the reveal for Super Mario RPG a...
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OzzieMejia
:( RIP childhood
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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...
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FreshwaterAU
Anyone still have one of the renewal pins they'd give you? http://www.flickriver.com/photos/garyfixle...
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Schnapple
Bastards
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Goto10
Damn it... I remember coming home every day running to the mailbox hoping the new issue of Nintendo Power...
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Shadowdane
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I bet everyone in this thread that is upset about this doesn't actually have a Nintendo Power subscriptio...
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snot3353
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Nintendo died shortly after releasing N64 in my eyes.
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freakynipples69
Same for me. I had my subscription up to issue 70 or 80. I remember that I had the Killer Instinct issu...
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Grumbeld
We do just renewed it a few months ago. It's been going downhill over the years though, the writing has b...
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Goto10
It was a large part of my life for ~8 years growing up. All through the NES and SNES years..
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deathofrats
It's just one more piece of nostalgia dying.
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one random winner
I was obsessed with the NES version of Maniac Mansion (literally, obsessed with it) and the Maniac Mansio...
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freakynipples69
Ah man :( Who remembers those awesome strategy guides like this one: http://www.amazon.com/Strategy-Ni...
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ghost in my shell
206-885-7529 :(
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pgharavi
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I recently sold my collection of about 70 Nintendo Power magazines. Was sad to see them go.
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sanchez
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I have a whole box just sitting in a garage. Want them? =|
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Tawler
Put them up on craigslist, someone will buy them. I sold mine for $80.
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sanchez
awwwww fuck
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boring gegtik
I remember being in Junior High getting Nintendo Power in mail back when it was free. Brings back a lot o...
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saturn96
Ahhh oh well.
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ejectorpod
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I'm stupid because I thought Nintendo published it
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GloriousCow
im stupid for other reasons
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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 ...
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Schnapple
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Digital publishing does though.
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freakynipples69
Does it? Much of traditional media has struggled to find better (or any) profits in digital content and t...
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derelict515
As true as that is, I wouldn't have expected Nintendo to realize it.
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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 ...
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OverloadUT
I did, only one time, but I can't for the life of me remember which game it was.
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vertdang
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YUP. Final Fantasy II questions galore.
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Deathlove
Really? The magazine (issue 30) had the game all the way up to fighting Rubicant. I don't remember how ...
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Grumbeld
I used to read these in the library when I was a kid over all the other educational books. Sadface
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supaLink
Man. i love nintendo power. I got Issue #1 in a WE recently! was excited.
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mindmann
http://goo.gl/bxH6x
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homeboyJim
Noooo
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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...
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David Craddock
I loved the level maps. It helped me lie about having more games than I did :(
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GloriousCow
They had a great run.
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ughhhhhhh
Meh. It died ages ago. After the SNES arrived it wasn't even the same magazine. The NES days were the bes...
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avatar_58
Wow. It's just one of those things that I assumed would always be there. I still have issues 1-50+ st...
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liquidlies
Future Networks is such a ridiculous monopoly - that company owns basically every print magazine out ther...
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TabsAZ
haven't read it since the 90s. wow, their website is pretty shitty.
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Korban
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Wow, they still make this magazine?
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om9zer
no, actually, they don't anymore.
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harold.johnson
I remember getting this as a subscriber bonus once. It was awesome! http://chattypics.com/files/20120...
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moonfist80
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I miss their Zelda comics :(
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breadsticks
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My mom got me the complete Zelda: ALTTP comic in graphic novel form for my birthday one year.
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David Craddock
Oh man I had that too!
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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...
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Crw22
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What ever happened to Howard Phillips? Nintendo Power was never quite the same after he left. I woul...
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Sideways Bob
Runs his own consulting company, haven't heard anything in the industry about him for years though. For ...
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NeonGames_Kevin
Nintendo Power still existed?
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Ajax
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And yet all they had to do to save it was make an iOS and Android version of it.
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ovrlrd
I would pay good money for Android versions of back issues!
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Vorlonesque
NINTENDO POWER. NEVER FORGET
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rtrson
i literally wallpapered my room with cutouts from Nintendo Power, and newspaper comics (mostly far side a...
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boring gegtik
I remember In Elementary Nintendo Power walkthroughs for NES Zelda, Metroid... sigh.. I'm old now :(
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rythex
Aww man. :(
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guido anchovy