Nearly every issue of Nintendo Power available on Archive.org

[Ichinisan]

Gamepro would have articles about non-Nintendo news or even Nintendo news that the big N didn't want to be public yet.

Obviously, NP usually had more solid scoops on Nintendo stuff because the editors were granted exclusive privilege to some information.

 

[RPD]

I want that Mario Pinball machine stat
https://archive.org/stream/Nintendo_Power_Issue_038_July_1992#page/n105/mode/2up

 

[CZroe]

I kept all my issues even though I had moved out of the house for years...finally threw them out when my dad got pissed off when he realized we still had all this junk in the house.

In my and Ichinisan's case they were thrown away by the borrower's mom only a few days after we loaned them. D: She thought that they were part of his mess that had been there for weeks/months when they had literally just arrived. He had a lot of our subscriber-exclusive inserts and mini-guides. The one I miss the most had N64 strategies including the Koopa the Quick glitch that we expanded on to beat him with a perfect time of 00:00:00.

IIRC, we only agreed to loan them so he would let us borrow a few games for a couple hours... just long enough to dump them with our Bung Dr. V64 though he would need the mags for quite a while longer.

 

[chitwood]

Well that lasted what, a week?

All content removed from the link.

 

[lupi]

It's been up for half a year, Nintendo didn't notice until the stories went out recently.

 

[CZroe]

It's been up for half a year, Nintendo didn't notice until the stories went out recently.

I was expecting it to go down immediately. After a few days of everyone talking about it I was thinking "Wow. It's still up? Nintendo must have authorized it." A day or two later: nope.

 

[darkswordsman17]

Was going to post that you better check it out while you can as I'm sure Nintendo will take it down.

Personally I have zero nostalgia for Nintendo Power. Even when I was younger and a Nintendo fanboy I thought it sucked as a magazine. Going through old magazines and they were in the first bunch I got rid of.

 

[BoomerD]

woohoo?

 

[Sonikku]

Freakin' Nintendo man.

 

[Chaotic42]

Of course they took them down. Nintendo seems to really hate their fans and customers.

 

[John Connor]

Bunch of copyright whines. I absolutely hate this world with so much tight assery copyright bull shit anymore.

 

[CZroe]

Bunch of copyright whines. I absolutely hate this world with so much tight assery copyright bull shit anymore.

???

Copyright and trademark are not just "use or lose it," they're also "protect it or lose it." If they don't protect it and they turn a blind eye to infringement it opens the floodgates and sets a legal precedent when they do need to enforce it. If they don't protect their Nintendo Power copyrights, why would Prima need their approval to reprint old excerpts from the magazine in their NES Classics book that's coming November 18th? They'd just do it and Nintendo would not get anything despite it being THEIR WORK. Are you OK with that? Why? Not only has Nintendo sold back issues in the past, I've ordered several back issues from them. There is a market for this stuff and you're asking them to just lose all their work/effort to just give it away to others who aren't willing to put in their own work/effort.

The book is 320 pages and will be released November 18th.

Are you buying it?

This isn't any different than them shutting down a project that steals their ROMs. If they didn't do that then the Mini NES coming this fall would be sitting on the shelf next to a bunch of other pieces of crap with the same games despite the others having made no effort to develop those games (they'd be literally just stealing them).

 

[jman19]

Wow, brings back memories. I remember getting the subscription that came with Dragon Warrior (Quest). Hooked on RPGs after that.

 

[John Connor]

???

Copyright and trademark are not just "use or lose it," they're also "protect it or lose it." If they don't protect it and they turn a blind eye to infringement it opens the floodgates and sets a legal precedent when they do need to enforce it. If they don't protect their Nintendo Power copyrights, why would Prima need their approval to reprint old excerpts from the magazine in their NES Classics book that's coming November 18th? They'd just do it and Nintendo would not get anything despite it being THEIR WORK. Are you OK with that? Why? Not only has Nintendo sold back issues in the past, I've ordered several back issues from them. There is a market for this stuff and you're asking them to just lose all their work/effort to just give it away to others who aren't willing to put in their own work/effort.

The book is 320 pages and will be released November 18th.

Are you buying it?

This isn't any different than them shutting down a project that steals their ROMs. If they didn't do that then the Mini NES coming this fall would be sitting on the shelf next to a bunch of other pieces of crap with the same games despite the others having made no effort to develop those games (they'd be literally just stealing them).

I wasn't aware of back issues being printed or a book. To me it seemed like an old Mag that wasn't printed anymore and it was stupid not to let the Internet domain see these old issues.