Nintendo Power's Final Cover 79
skade88 writes "Ars Technica has a review of the last-ever issue of Nintendo Power. It's bittersweet seeing a part of my childhood ending." Being in print for 25 years means it's got most single-platform computer magazines beat.
Re:Surprised it lasted... (Score:4, Insightful)
... this long considering magazines really haven't been relevant since the late 90's early 2000's for gaming.
Why does everyone assume that if they are not interested in something no one is interested in it?
Re:Surprised it lasted... (Score:4, Insightful)
"Why does everyone assume that if they are not interested in something no one is interested in it?"
It's not about interest, it's about usefulness vs what you are paying. I read all sorts of gaming mags back in the pre-internet era. Nintendo power was one of my first magazines but they were supplanted quickly by better magazines even back then by EGM and gamepro. The primary purpose of gaming magazine is to get info on new games for different consoles. The net pretty much replaced mags in this capacity around that time for much cheaper. I don't see how anyone would continue to pay for what you can now get for free.
The end of Nintendo power is proof of this, it's just a little late (about a decade).
Correction (Score:4, Insightful)
Being in print for 25 years means it's got most single-platform computer magazines beat.
I think you meant "single-manufacturer".
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You cynical bastards can say what you want... (Score:5, Insightful)
... but I choose to remember the mag through the innocent eyes of the kids I was. I don't care that the entire mag was a marketing stump for Nintendo. I enjoyed the mag when I was a kid, and I haunted the mailbox whenever an issue was due. Early on, when they were publishing strategy guides, I got all kinds of use out of them (Particularly Super Mario 3 and Final Fantasy).
I grew up poor, getting a new game was a once, maybe twice if we were lucky, a year thing. Every month or two mom could afford to let us rent something for a few days, and Nintendo Power gave me a way to look at what was coming out and judge if it was something I wanted to spend those precious rental or acquisition opportunities on.
The adult in me agrees with all the scorn and criticism heaped on the mag, especially as it grew longer in the tooth.
But the wide eyed child in me remembers those first few years of Nintendo Power with great fondness.
Re:the good news: (Score:3, Insightful)
Well you see, for most of us we did not have to grow up with our parents beating us to within an inch of our lives, and who despite ability to do so, wanted us to be loved and have things that we loved to do.
For those of us with GOOD memories of our childhoods, quite a few have equally loving memories of Nintendo, and actually have feelings of sadness and sorrow when those memories have to be put fully behind us.
People such as yourself, who did not grow up with loving parents, and had no friends to play Nintendo with (either from being too abused as a child to have such toys, or being such an obnoxious prick due to it to be tolerated spending time at friends who did have one) - Yes we can understand why you would want to put such hell behind you.
When your life ambition is to become a professional slashdot troll, like harryfeet has been for the past decade, and your only goal is to trash talk everything that others find joy in, it is not at all surprising that you would not shed a single tear for happy memories which you simply do not have.
Just try to realize that not all of us hate our self and our lives so fully, and actually want to preserve the happy memories of our childhoods. This, is why we feel nostalgia and sadness at it's loss.