It didn't take long, however, for nostalgic gamers to pine for the physical medium and begin assembling a collection of their own.

285 issues later, the popularity of Nintendo's franchises had grown but the increasingly free access to gaming news and information on the web dealt a blow to the paid subscription's appeal. Aside from all that fist shaking and mumblings of 'in MY day.!', the coolest part of Nintendo Power was the killer tri-panel poster that came as the magazine's centerfold each issue! Each one featured an up-and-coming game that, as we now know, had gone on in many cases to be a staple of classic gaming.Ĭollecting the issues (and by proxy, collecting the posters) has become increasingly popular since its dissolution in December of 2012, releasing an impressive catalogue of issues since its first edition in 1988. The edge to collecting the physical copies of Nintendo Power goes beyond mere nostalgia: Holding the artifact in your hands represents a time capsule from a time when game secrets were whispered in lunchrooms, and game universes were expanded by the imagination. Since the publication is now defunct, anxiously waiting by the mailbox to receive each monthly issue may be lost on today's younger gaming crowd. Nintendo Power was arguably chief among them, halfheartedly hiding the promotion of Nintendo's own software, yet offering unique insight and collectibles about everyone's favourite big N games. Mind you, since access to information on the internet was not nearly as commonplace as it is today, video game information, tips and reviews were disseminated the old-fashioned way: print. The new and as-of-yet unexplored frontiers of companies like Nintendo and Sega were fertile planting ground for now-classic and beloved franchises. If you were a kid growing up at the end of the '80s and into the late '90s, you very well may have known that home console gaming was in its prime glory in the Bush Senior and Clinton era.

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