nintendo power is done :(

[Nintendesert]

I died a little inside.

 

[Sonikku]

Sad day to see Nintendo Power go. Though obsolete in modern times, you HAD to have that stuff back in the 80's. There was no internet, nor were there gamefaqs or google to visit whenever you hit a snag. Further compounding this situation was most of the games for the NES were rushed with extremely poor translations, rendering most hints worthless.

The games didn't spell things out for you either, there were no graphic formations showing you were Link needs to stick a bomb like in Link to the Past. You just either had to "know" where to do that stuff, do a LOT of trial and error in a very tedious manner, or get some help from the power. If someone told me they figured out they needed to go to the left of some wall, select some lame crystal item in your inventory and kneel for 5 seconds before a tornado took them to another part of the game in Simon's Quest without the aid of "the power", I'd call that person a bald faced liar.

 

[AMDZen]

I honestly thought it had ceased to exist many years ago.

Goes to show you how much I pay attention to Nintendo after the GameCube since the N64 was the last good console they made.

 

[Phokus]

I know i got the first issue when it came out, wonder if i still have it in my parent's place somewhere

 

[fustercluck]

Aw this still makes me really sad. I'm gonna get the final issue for sure.

 

[ioni]

They've gone the way of PC Accelerator.

Those guys were awesome! I figured their free trials killed them, since you could keep signing up for them.

 

[brianmanahan]

Why do people get all butt hurt when someone reposts something they already posted, in another forum that people here probably don't even visit? I have NEVER visited CG.

Thanks for reposting here OP, otherwise I would never have seen it.

you are welcome triumph. for some people, getting all butt hurt is a full time job.

 

[cKGunslinger]

I remember when they had a series of issues that were supposed to make an image along the spines when stacked, but they screwed up and double-printed the same image on some issues. I started my subscription on issue #3.. doh!