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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.
    Aug 21, 2012 10:45am PDT
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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. : ShacknewsThis person is cool!

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    • :'( : YanksThis person is cool!
    • My childhood, shattered. :( : DeathloveThis person is cool!
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      Sad, but not surprising I guess. This is Nintendo Power's legacy for me: http://chattypics.com/files/I... : nurglichThis person is cool!
      • Rad \m/ : valcan_sThis person is cool!
      • Awesome. : Ride-My-RocketThis person is cool!
      • 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. : VorlonesqueThis person is cool!
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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... : pigvomitThis person is cool!
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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... : vertdangThis person is cool!
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          I still have my Nintendo Player's Guide too. http://www.videogameobsession.com/videogame/mags/books/bo... : pigvomitThis person is cool!
          • This was my bible growing up. : pigvomitThis person is cool!
          • Man I miss that thing, wish I could find one somewhere. I loved it back when all the NES games had gray b... : SchnappleThis person is cool!
    • My love/hate of 'official' mags go all the way back to Atari Age. Yeah, they had the inside scoop, but d... : daggotThis person is cool!
    • Time to re-watch this AVGN: Nintendo Power http://cinemassacre.com/2007/09/04/avgn-nintendo-power/ ... : SchnappleThis person is cool!
    • 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 : rosewoodThis person is cool!
      • 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... : ZizThis person is cool!
    • I would always cut out pictures of characters and stuff from these magazines and put them all over my wal... : glio1337This person is cool!
    • 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... : SchnappleThis person is cool!
    • Bastards : Goto10
    • Damn it... I remember coming home every day running to the mailbox hoping the new issue of Nintendo Power... : ShadowdaneThis person is cool!
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      I bet everyone in this thread that is upset about this doesn't actually have a Nintendo Power subscriptio... : snot3353This person is cool!
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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.. : deathofratsThis person is cool!
      • 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 shellThis person is cool!
    • 206-885-7529 :( : pgharaviThis person is cool!
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      I recently sold my collection of about 70 Nintendo Power magazines. Was sad to see them go. : sanchezThis person is cool!
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        I have a whole box just sitting in a garage. Want them? =| : TawlerThis person is cool!
        • Put them up on craigslist, someone will buy them. I sold mine for $80. : sanchezThis person is cool!
    • 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... : saturn96This person is cool!
    • Ahhh oh well. : ejectorpodThis person is cool!
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      I'm stupid because I thought Nintendo published it : GloriousCowThis person is cool!
      • 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 ... : SchnappleThis person is cool!
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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... : derelict515This person is cool!
        • As true as that is, I wouldn't have expected Nintendo to realize it. : stratedgeThis person is cool!
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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. : vertdangThis person is cool!
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        YUP. Final Fantasy II questions galore. : DeathloveThis person is cool!
        • 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. : mindmannThis person is cool!
    • http://goo.gl/bxH6x : homeboyJimThis person is cool!
    • 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 :( : GloriousCowThis person is cool!
    • 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... : liquidliesThis person is cool!
    • Future Networks is such a ridiculous monopoly - that company owns basically every print magazine out ther... : TabsAZ
    • haven't read it since the 90s. wow, their website is pretty shitty. : KorbanThis person is cool!
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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... : Crw22This person is cool!
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      What ever happened to Howard Phillips? Nintendo Power was never quite the same after he left. I woul... : Sideways BobThis person is cool!
      • Runs his own consulting company, haven't heard anything in the industry about him for years though. For ... : NeonGames_Kevin
    • Nintendo Power still existed? : AjaxThis person is cool!
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      And yet all they had to do to save it was make an iOS and Android version of it. : ovrlrdThis person is cool!
      • I would pay good money for Android versions of back issues! : VorlonesqueThis person is cool!
    • 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 :( : rythexThis person is cool!
    • Aww man. :( : guido anchovyThis person is cool!