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Sup D-toiders, Nick Moore is my name, video gaming is my... er, game. My console of choice is the Nintendo Wii, for I am as big of a Nintendo fanboy as you will ever find. Yea I like Nintendo, wanna fight about it? Anyway my favorite games include Banjo-Kazooie/Tooie, Paper Mario, and pretty much any Pokemon game, but my top picks gotta be Crystal and Emerald. I also love me some Super Smash Bros Series, LoZ:TP, Resident Evil 4, and pretty much all of the Fire Emblem games. Got me a Nintendo 64, Gamecube, Wii, and DS. Nice. I also like to game on the PC, my favorites including Fallout 3, Plants vs. Zombies, and Left 4 Dead.
Here's me in my natural habitat:
There's my Alienware m9750, love it. I'm pretty much on it 24/7, I do everything on it. But I get out, don't worry. See that tan? Yea you do. I hang with my friends most of the time I'm 'away from my computer', usually going to concerts, movies, or just partying.
I'm currently enrolled at The College of New Jersey (yea that's really the name) and my major is Interactive Multimedia, which is pretty much a revved up Gaming Major. Yup, one day I'll be a multi-million game designer, so you better not get on my bad side or you'll never get to experience the awesomeness of my video games... though I think I'm getting way ahead of myself.
Some of my other hobbies include movies, music, football (E-A-G-L-E-S Eagles!!!!) and literature. My favorite directors include The Coen Brothers, Guillermo del Toro, Tim Burton, and Quentin Tarantino. Favorite movies include Reservoir Dogs, Barton Fink, Edward Scissorhands, Fargo, Pulp Fiction, No Country for Old Men, and Pan's Labyrinth. My favorite bands are The Killers, Blink-182, Green Day, Weezer, and Queen.
So there you go, a little bit about me, your humble neighborhood Myrmidon16.
Here's me in my natural habitat:
There's my Alienware m9750, love it. I'm pretty much on it 24/7, I do everything on it. But I get out, don't worry. See that tan? Yea you do. I hang with my friends most of the time I'm 'away from my computer', usually going to concerts, movies, or just partying.
I'm currently enrolled at The College of New Jersey (yea that's really the name) and my major is Interactive Multimedia, which is pretty much a revved up Gaming Major. Yup, one day I'll be a multi-million game designer, so you better not get on my bad side or you'll never get to experience the awesomeness of my video games... though I think I'm getting way ahead of myself.
Some of my other hobbies include movies, music, football (E-A-G-L-E-S Eagles!!!!) and literature. My favorite directors include The Coen Brothers, Guillermo del Toro, Tim Burton, and Quentin Tarantino. Favorite movies include Reservoir Dogs, Barton Fink, Edward Scissorhands, Fargo, Pulp Fiction, No Country for Old Men, and Pan's Labyrinth. My favorite bands are The Killers, Blink-182, Green Day, Weezer, and Queen.
So there you go, a little bit about me, your humble neighborhood Myrmidon16.
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Now I practically grew up on this magazine, and I still subscribe to it today. But I've seen many of my friends who used to read it cancel their subscriptions and when I miss a payment and need to pick up the month I missed I find it real hard to locate a store that sells it. GameStop and EB Games don't sell it anymore, as well as Best Buy. It seems that if I want to find one without subscribing I have to go to Borders or Barnes and Nobles. Why has my precious Nintendo Power fallen so? Now they celebrate their 20th anniversary, but will it last 20 more years? In my opinion the writers at Nintendo Power remind me of the ones here at Destructoid, they're both funny and informative. I get all of my Nintendo fanboy info from that magazine,and I just need to know is anyone still reads it. Are they so hard to find because nobody buys them or do the people at GameStop and EB Games just have their heads too far up their asses? So does anyone read Nintendo Power here? Hello? Anyone?
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Living the dream since March 16, 2006
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 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.
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.