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I grew up on this as well.. but I also stopped reading it. I think what it comes down to is what mags have to offer. Back then the market wasnt huge and there was very little (if any!?)choices.
Also, most magazines are doing horrible these days as far as gaming ones go. I remember reading a huge artical on Ziff Davis and how they were going to cancel some of their mags.
i guess with all those internet blogs nobody needs to rad mags anymore.
I find that all grocery stores sell NP. I gave up on it after I realized it was an ad for nintendo games, even the bad ones.
I read other gaming magazines.
Videogame mags are still great shitter material, besides "adult magazines"
The internet (by which I mean Destructoid.com, mainly) has so much more to offer in terms of variety of content, breaking news is updated pretty much every minute, it's interactive, and it's free. You do the math.
I still read/subscribe to it. EB Games is completedly going to stop carrying magazines and strategy guides, aside from like 5 "big" titles a year. But you can still find it in Chapters or grocery stores up here in Canada. While you can find pretty much like anything on the internet nowadays, you do get some exclusives and different articles only through the magazine.
I agree with Char, the internet has made magazines sorta useless. Though some magazines do have things like first looks some times before it gets to the internet, thats why I stick to ones like Game Informer and EGM. Console specific mags are pointless and bias.
I read Edge so I can't afford to read anything else :(
Shit happens. I grew up on OPM. Don't remind me of that heartbreak. I just simply moved on to EGM, Game Informer (the best out there), and Popular Science. I need to get Wired.
Nope. I quit reading it when I was 16 or 17.
No. I stopped when I was 15 or so. I thought they stopped making those.Guess i was wrong.
I let my subscription run out once Future Media started doing the publishing.
I still have mine for bathroom reading, which usually ends up me playing DS. I also still subscribe for the posters they had in their until recently.
No. No one.
I used to subscribe to it when I was a kid in the early 90's. The Legend of Zelda and Super Metroid tie-in comics were kick-ass, still have fond memories of them.
Haven't read it in ages, I'm afraid. Sometimes I'll leaf through and see if the posters are cool, but that's about it.
There haven't even been posters in the last several issues ;_;
I still read it, but I miss the days of artwork and loud colors on every page. It's got a somewhat sterile professional look like most major magazines these days. There's also less concentration on game strategies, which were always cool if you couldn't afford a game but still had an interest in it-- it was almost as good as playing!
I got the latest issue and browsed through it, don't know how much more in depth I'll end up reading.
I stopped subscribing around the N64 era, specifically after that (I think) 100th issue where they ranked all their games.
Nintendo Power was always a publication I respected for its having lots of good detailed content as opposed to many other magazines of the time which were just too sparse of details to interest me. Sure, Nintendo Power was and always has been a propaganda machine for Nintendo. It just didn't seem to matter back then when Nintendo hailed themselves the king of the world because, arguably, they weren't far from the truth.
What eventually turned me off was how horribly desparate Nintendo became to justify the N64 as sales and interest were plummeting and moving onto the PS1. The magazine became more and more inundated with trash talk and other desparate attempts to trash the PS1. For me, that 100th issue was the last straw for me (and luckily it was the last issue before my subscription ended) when, in another desparate attempt to sell the N64, they awarded best game ever to Super Mario 64, a game that while good is hardly deserving of best game ever.
It's a pity that since then, Nintendo Power's format has changed for the worst and now seemed virtually indistinguishable from the other crap out there.