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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.

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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.

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Does Anyone Still Read Nintendo Power?
Myrmidon16 | 10:57 AM on 07.30.2008 22 comments


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?

ANYONE?



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thefil's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/30/2008 11:23
thefil
EGM
dephect's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/30/2008 11:25
dephect
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.
Myrmidon16's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/30/2008 11:30
Myrmidon16
i guess with all those internet blogs nobody needs to rad mags anymore.
blehman's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/30/2008 11:36
blehman
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.
vexed alex's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/30/2008 11:39
vexed alex
I read other gaming magazines.
CypherVR's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/30/2008 11:40
CypherVR
Videogame mags are still great shitter material, besides "adult magazines"
Char Aznable's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/30/2008 11:42
Char Aznable
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.
Funktastic's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/30/2008 11:45
Funktastic
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.
covah's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/30/2008 11:46
covah
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.
Jonathan Kerr's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/30/2008 11:52
Jonathan Kerr
I read Edge so I can't afford to read anything else :(
RonBurgandy2010's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/30/2008 11:55
RonBurgandy2010
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.
TheDespised's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/30/2008 12:02
TheDespised
Nope. I quit reading it when I was 16 or 17.
Kryptinite's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/30/2008 12:07
Kryptinite
No. I stopped when I was 15 or so. I thought they stopped making those.Guess i was wrong.
bloodylip's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/30/2008 12:09
bloodylip
I let my subscription run out once Future Media started doing the publishing.
crackity jones's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/30/2008 13:53
crackity jones
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.
Quisling's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/30/2008 14:30
Quisling
No. No one.
Phantom Spaceman's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/30/2008 14:47
Phantom Spaceman
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.
Evila's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/30/2008 14:48
Evila
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.
A New Challenger's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/30/2008 15:17
A New Challenger
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.
Tascar's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2008 08:07
Tascar
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.
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