Nintendo Power Ceasing Publication After 24 Years

[Olas]

I remember when I asked my parents to get me a new Gameinformer subscription and I got a Nintendo Power one instead. I was pissed, but eventually I started actually reading the magazines and fell in love. I never went back to gameinformer and have been subscribed to NP since.
This is very disappointing, but far from surprising. There's always [a href="http://www.infendo.com/"]infendo[/a] though.

 

[TIMESWORDSMAN]

And so my favorite magazine dies, and with it a special little place in my heart.

 

[MarlonBlazed]

I will always remember the logo, because I stopped reading these when I was 12.

 

[Valanthe]

Well, that's the most depressing thing I've heard today. I have good memories of Nintendo Power, even though it's been what... six years since I cancelled my subscription? I still picked up an issue every now and again, it was just fun

I guess it makes sense why they are ending, but I'm sad to see them go. It's just another reminder that the times, they are a'changin

 

[Rect Pola]

As we live out our time together,
I look back on where we had been
and reflect on the stories we shared.

We said hello me to now great friends.
We saw the promise of distant lands.
You shared such great secrets and tales.

Although our paths had grown apart,
it hurts to know you won't be there
always following just behind.

But as we live out our time together,
I promise these words will forever be true:
Our time together was time well spent.


Nintendo Power subscriber since Vol. 7

 

[elilupe]

Woah. Well, this makes me feel old. I used to read these as a kid. Now I'm gonna have to go find all my old copies and look through them...

 

[crazyrabbits]

There goes one of the last vestiges of my childhood.

Back when I first got my SNES in '94, I was a loyal NP reader. I'd always eagerly anticipate the new issue, and I subscribed early in '96 - I still have my copy of the Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time issue. I also found a ton of back issues in a second-hand store many years ago, and poured through them all.

Sure, they were always a glorified marketing mag for Nintendo, but they tons of exclusives, genuinely good comics (the Zelda and Super Metroid comics were amazing) and plenty of freebies - I managed to find an original copy of the DKC promo VHS from the early 90's).

They'll still live on in our memories.

 

[xyrafhoan]

As soon as Future US assumed publication of Nintendo Power, my interest in the magazine was absolutely destroyed. Future US stopped hosting interesting contests, dumped all over the opportunities of Canadian readers, stopped packaging interesting subscription bonuses, stopped publishing mini-guides, and their head editor was a bit of a dick in his response to reader letters. The glory days of Nintendo Power in the 90's, with its mail order catalogue, soundtrack offerings, cheat code central (those Goldeneye 007 codes!), and zany contests (a replica of the fishbone guitar from Majora's Mask? Hell yeah!) are all things I sorely missed in the last half of the decade.

 

[DRTJR]

This makes me sad, I have been subbed to this mag since I was four. this is going to be like losing a childhood friend.

 

[Dangit2019]

Now instead of looking in a magazine for game clues, we'll just have to use a web bowser.

 

[Ritchian]

It's a shame Nintendo Power it's closing down. I loved that magazine as a kid.

I was one of the many, many kids who started their subscription with the "buy our magazine, get Dragon Warrior for free" promotion. At the time, I wouldn't have cared what game it was. A free game (With a lot of nice extras included) with a fairly cheap magazine subscription? Awesome. As a result, it's totally Nintendo Power's fault that I became obsessed with RPGs at a young age.

I kept my subscription until the mid-90s, by which point I simply didn't own a current-generation Nintendo console (Aside from a Gameboy, which didn't get enough coverage to make the subscription worthwhile) and moved on to other magazines that covered PC and Playstation games.

I loved reading the comics and getting the (heavily biased) low down on new Nintendo games. Yeah, the magazine was often cheesy and at its heart, a giant, pay-to-read advertisement for Nintendo. But, it was a part of my childhood and always brings back good memories.

 

[ramboondiea]

well this was a kick in the childhood, i am genuinely sad about this, that was the magazine i use to get as a kid, its what made me get a gamecube and i still have the free music cd they gave away every now and again. think im going to go have a drink and listen to some donkey kong country remixes........

 

[Beautiful End]

Well, at least in Mexico we still have Club Nintendo, wich is the closest thing to Nintendo Power (and amazingly, it's still being published to this very day), but it's quite sad to see it's inspiration being closed down.

Even if I don't buy any more issues of Club Nintendo since the early 2000's, I fear for the same fate if it ever happens and it certainly saddens me to even think that the very magazine that teached me how to read would close down someday.

Dang, son, I thought the same thing! Just about a week ago, I dug out my old collection of Club Nintendo that dated back to the early 2000s. Sadly, because I'm moving out, I had to throw them away. But hey, i kept the very first issues that came out. I'm a melancholic like that.

I never really read Nintendo Power but I imagine it'd be the same kind of feeling if Club Nintendo was shut down.
Then again, I feel like this wasn't entirely their fault. I mean, there are only so many things that are related to Nintendo to talk about, especially now that they're all being mysterious about the WiiU and stuff. I can imagine their last issues: "Nintendo Wii U is coming!", "Those cool games you saw at E3 will be available for the WiiU!", "Almost there! Before the end of the year!", "Keep saving that money, the WiiU will be released soon!". I dunno, I'm just being an ass.

 

[Rad Party God]

Well, at least in Mexico we still have Club Nintendo, wich is the closest thing to Nintendo Power (and amazingly, it's still being published to this very day), but it's quite sad to see it's inspiration being closed down.

Even if I don't buy any more issues of Club Nintendo since the early 2000's, I fear for the same fate if it ever happens and it certainly saddens me to even think that the very magazine that teached me how to read would close down someday.

Dang, son, I thought the same thing! Just about a week ago, I dug out my old collection of Club Nintendo that dated back to the early 2000s. Sadly, because I'm moving out, I had to throw them away. But hey, i kept the very first issues that came out. I'm a melancholic like that.

I never really read Nintendo Power but I imagine it'd be the same kind of feeling if Club Nintendo was shut down.
Then again, I feel like this wasn't entirely their fault. I mean, there are only so many things that are related to Nintendo to talk about, especially now that they're all being mysterious about the WiiU and stuff. I can imagine their last issues: "Nintendo Wii U is coming!", "Those cool games you saw at E3 will be available for the WiiU!", "Almost there! Before the end of the year!", "Keep saving that money, the WiiU will be released soon!". I dunno, I'm just being an ass.

In fact, you're not so far from the truth, my sister still buys them (she's kinda collector, true story) and their latest issues all talk about the WiiU, the "graphical superiority" it brings and almost 7 years of franchises that Wii users missed, coming to the WiiU, even describing Mass Effect 3 having "Resident Evil 4 kind of over the shoulder gameplay".

Sad and hilarious at the same time. But yeah, what else would you write if you talk about Nintendo exclusively?.