Another one bites the dust: Nintendo Power ready to die?

Though that's more of a symptom of a kid focused franchise. Did they review the third party mature titles for the GC?

I remember them always reviewing Nintendo made games and giving them straight 5s, and then give almost every other 3rd party game 2s and stuff.

That magazine sucked.

My Workman is much cooler. He has Dolby.

Nester's gonna be pissed.

I remember being offered three free issues when I registered my Wii, and I was like "Umm... eh... nah."

If they had offered me three issues from 1989 I totally would have taken them, though.

There magazine was... fun to read.

God that would blow if they do end it. I remember way back in the NES days, best Mag Every

i was in the nintendo fun club and got the NFC newsletter for a while. then they discontinued it, probably because it was free to join and they were losing money on the postage. so, they replaced it with nintendo power and started charging for it. they did send out the first issue for free to all Nintendo Fun Club members. that was the last issue that i actually read.

Aww... R.I.P. Nintendo Power...

Of course I probably should of said this about 10 years ago.

Subscriber for 17 years. Which is weird. 'cause that'd mean I was subscribing since I was two. And that was when I played my first game: Super Mario Bros. Maybe my parents are also fanpeople and just passed down the magazine to me. I just keep subscribing because I love Nintendo.

Nowadays, I really don't read it much after the first look-through when I get it. Good thing it comes with posters. That's really the only thing that I get excited about when a new magazine comes in.

Cheers,

Bradley

That is the best Pho-to-shop EVAR!

I <3 you HushGush

I fucking hated that magazine. There is no dubt in my head that it was good at one time but most recently the magazine has sucked major balls. Mainly because they seem to be aiming towards little kids then a broader spectrum of people. I quit reading it because it was so damn insulting to my intelligence. That and they were biased as hell as you guys have been saying. I don't think I've seen a game scored below a 6/10 in that magazine. Even red steel got a somewhat good rating in that magazine!

I always hated how i felt like a dope reading them. than a few years ago they tried to reinvent themselves and say the word crap. It's the Highlights for children of videogames

Nintendo Power didn't pick me to win the phone booth from Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, so I hate them.

I don't take my laptop in the bathroom (very often), so I'm subscribed. Surprisingly, they do have some scoops before major websites, occasionally. And their writing is superior to other shitty magazines I've gotten free subscriptions to.

As for them reviewing Nintendo games positively always... yeah, they used to do that. But they also gave Geist (along with other first party games I can't think of) a positively shitty rating.

It's a shame. In the past year or two, they really started becoming a grown-up magazine. It'd be great if they kept a few writers for an online mag, but I doubt that'll happen if they told them to start searching for new jobs.

Just got a subscription with my renewal of my Gamecrazy benefit card. The redesign made the mag much better. Before it was all strategies and shit like that but now they actually cover news and the reviews aren't half bad. They gave Geist what it deserved and they gave Zelda TP a 9.5 while every other publication under the sun gave it a 10. The mag a'int half bad and I hope it doesn't die. But, they gave Puzzle Quest a 4, which is unforgivable.

I'll try to Nab the Final issue

then I can say I have the first issue AND THE LAST

Let me start by saying that I'm 14 and I subscribe to Nintendo Power. I completely agree with bloodylip, don't disrestpect NP unless you've read it in the last few years. I subscribed to it almost two years ago so I don't really know what it was like back in the day. And to you people who say it made you feel stupid, it defeats the purpose when you demonstrate to everyone you you don't know how to spell second grade words like doubt (aborto thefetus said dubt) and then (topgeargorilla said than, which is used when you're comparing something)
I'm a die hard nintendo fan and my computer kind of sucks so I like being able to read a magazine, especially at school where I can't look at Nintendo information online and if I did, half the stuff would be written by ignorant people who can't spell.
I also find it hard to believe that NP is laying people off since they just added a new writer, and they seem to be doing pretty well.
And to all of you people who I mentioned, you were just intellectually owned by a 14 year old.

* -you