![]() ![]() Fellow old-timer gaming magazine GamePro just ceased publication last year after 23 years. Why wouldn't someone want to enter the publishing industry in 2012? Ohhh. Ars Technica's source says that Nintendo was always "difficult to work with," though, and wouldn't be reassuming publication of the magazine or renewing their contract. Nintendo had already outsourced the publication of the magazine in 2007, which took a little more independent view rather than the boosterism of a company publication. You can check out an online archive here. I think my friend Justin Morissette summed it up best of all, though: "Getting a new issue in the mail was like a mini-monthly Christmas."Ī personal favorite feature of mine was the comic strip adventures of Howard and Nester, the Fun Club president and the magazine's mascot, respectively. I'm on the same page as MTV Multiplayer writer Charles Webb as far as that magazine being a big part of what made me a lifelong video game fan. That community feeling is being expressed online, with numerous fans taking to Twitter to lament the magazine running out of extra lives. The magazine helped readers feel like part of a community before the Internet made that so much easier. It had covers that brought the characters to life through drawings, models and live photo shoots. The magazine featured game guides, maps, comic strips, letter columns, fan art, codes (the old-school gaming holy grail) and more. It first came out at a time when Nintendo was really a thing, with early issues focusing on the second generation of NES games like Super Mario Bros. I subscribed for years personally, until Nintendo systems became more of a niche and first the PlayStation 2 and later the Xbox 360 achieved market dominance. ( You can read the entire first issue here.)Īs a lifelong gamer, it was the first magazine I ever forced my mom to subscribe to when I was a small tyke (emphasis on that I'm not that old), so it makes me a little sad to hear. It started as the Nintendo Fun Club, a short publication that probably doesn't even qualify as a magazine, before bursting out as a full-fledged magazine with a Super Mario Bros. In the pre-Internet days, video game news came from magazines, and Nintendo Power was the king of them all. "Magahuh?" you may say as you read this on your iPad. Nintendo Power magazine is ceasing publication after 24 years, Ars Technica is reporting.
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