I hate furries....

Protodude · Post by **Protodude** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 4:06 pm

Yeah, I thought that DVD was cool. The quality was good compared to the ones you find online. Plus, I have dial-up, so most of those trailers were new to me.

Frieza2000 · Post by **Frieza2000** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 9:56 pm

Can anyone give me a quote? I've been reading for years and the only thing I recall even close to console bashing is "Playstations eat childeren."

Kishi · Post by **Kishi** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 11:38 pm

Without thinking about it too much, they once suggested using the old Bebe's Kids cartridge to smash in PlayStations. And so on.

Rlan · Post by **Rlan** » Sun Jun 26, 2005 1:47 am

http://picapic.net/media/BRCH72R84Q8GV4

Watch it!

Zeta · Post by **Zeta** » Sun Jun 26, 2005 10:53 am

Actually, Nintendo Power is a pretty good source for screenshots and game art - if not for anything else. That's why I still look at it, but don't necissarily read it . . .

Neo Yi · Post by **Neo Yi** » Sun Jun 26, 2005 7:48 pm

I used to read a lot of Nintendo Power magazine (my sister even subscirbled for like 3 years at one point), but yes, I have notice how much they favor the Nintendo over all else (which makes pretty damn obvious sense), but I agree with Zeta. They have nice batch of screenshots and arts I can't find anywhere else at times.
~Neo

Zeta · Post by **Zeta** » Sun Jun 26, 2005 9:43 pm

Not only that, but all of the consoles have their own magazines now, anyways . . .

Kishi · Post by **Kishi** » Sun Jun 26, 2005 10:35 pm

The difference is that the PlayStation magazines aren't made by Sony and the Xbox magazines aren't made by Microsoft.

Neo Yi · Post by **Neo Yi** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 5:58 pm

Not only that, but all of the consoles have their own magazines now, anyways . . .

Yes, of course. I admit I buy OPM (Offical Playstation Magazine) every month as I do EGM.
~Neo

Post by **Squirrelknight** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 12:15 am

Frieza2000 wrote:Can anyone give me a quote? I've been reading for years and the only thing I recall even close to console bashing is "Playstations eat childeren."

It's not that people hate Nintendo Power because its biased (which it is), we hate it cause it sucks most of the time. That's all. Oh, and the newest issue has some sort of quip about how E3 attendees ignored Sony's booth and ran to Nintendo's (hah!) to play Zelda.

OPM is a pretty decent magazine, and it's one of the few console-specific magazines that isn't written by fanboys for fanboys. XBN was like that too, and it was far superior to Official Xbox Magazine (which sucks, btw), but XBN, like it's equally great sister-mag GMR, is now dead :P. I'm gonna go pour a Corona out on the curb...

Zeta · Post by **Zeta** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 1:06 am

I'm mildly surprised anyone still magazines what with the intranets . . .

Post by **G.Silver** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 1:06 am

The things I liked about Nintendo Power were its detailed maps, which allowed me to vicariously experience many games I would never play as a kid (at the time, that was interesting to me), and the other stuff you got because it was, essentially, just a big ad for Nintendo, interest-generating comics like <a href="http://hn.iodized.net/main.htm">Howard and Nester</a> (before Howard left) and the Mario and Zelda comics, and the occasional "behind the scenes" look (The Super Mario 3 one in particular always stands out in my mind, though I can't remember what it was about it exactly..). Once they rolled out those crappy Metroid and Starfox comics as followups that pretty much killed the magazine for me. (Do they even do comics or in-depth maps anymore?)

If Nintendo Power had kept up the comic thing and just focused entirely on that and let their biased news/reviews take the back seat entirely, sort of like a video-game oriented version of Shonen Jump or something, that would have been really cool.

minnietguinea · Post by **minnietguinea** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 10:01 am

I'd agree with that. Minus Star Fox Adventures.

Neo Yi · Post by **Neo Yi** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 10:48 am

I'm mildly surprised anyone still magazines what with the intranets . . .

I perfer both, really. EGM and OPM I get just out of the sense that I've been reading their magazines since 1997 (1998 for OPM) and I've grown to love it and all. Not to mention the amoung of hilarious shit in EGM alone. Seanbaby's articles are eagerly one of my favorite articles in EGM.
~Neo

Post by **Squirrelknight** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 10:51 am

G.Silver wrote:The things I liked about Nintendo Power were its detailed maps, which allowed me to vicariously experience many games I would never play as a kid (at the time, that was interesting to me), and the other stuff you got because it was, essentially, just a big ad for Nintendo, interest-generating comics like <a href="http://hn.iodized.net/main.htm">Howard and Nester</a> (before Howard left) and the Mario and Zelda comics, and the occasional "behind the scenes" look (The Super Mario 3 one in particular always stands out in my mind, though I can't remember what it was about it exactly..).

My older brother had a giant hardcover that collected all the Mario comics into one book... I used to read that thing over and over for hours when I was little. Those Zelda comics were even better too-- Did they ever release those in one big compilation book like the Mario ones? I hate digging through my old stack of back issues everytime I wanna see them.

And no, Nintendo Power does not make comics any more. They just have multi-page articles about why you should still care about Pokemon, and why Game Boy Micro is the system of choice for "trendsetters with discriminating tastes". And I think they ditched all their maps and strategies with their new redesign.

Neo Yi · Post by **Neo Yi** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 4:58 pm

My older brother had a giant hardcover that collected all the Mario comics into one book... I used to read that thing over and over for hours when I was little. Those Zelda comics were even better too-- Did they ever release those in one big compilation book like the Mario ones? I hate digging through my old stack of back issues everytime I wanna see them.

The old Zelda and Mario cartoons are getting the same treatment by putting in all their episodes on DVD and because I grew up with the Mario cartoon and watched it religiously back then, I'll be wasting money on it.
~Neo

Baba O'Reily · Post by **Baba O'Reily** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 6:33 pm

Squirrelknight wrote:And I think they ditched all their maps and strategies with their new redesign.

Gay.

Brazillian Cara · Post by **Brazillian Cara** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 7:20 pm

That was pretty unnecessary, if you ask me.

Tsuyoshi-kun · Post by **Tsuyoshi-kun** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 10:12 pm

Squirrelknight wrote:And no, Nintendo Power does not make comics any more. They just have multi-page articles about why you should still care about Pokemon, and why Game Boy Micro is the system of choice for "trendsetters with discriminating tastes".

I miss it when Pokemon was still cool (yes, I used to be into it). But it seems that after Ruby and Sapphire, everything Pokemon has sucked. I don't even care about the new games on DS anymore (the fourth generation; talk about overkill).

smiths32 · Post by **smiths32** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 9:23 am

The Pokemon craze was dead before Gold and Silver were released; let alone Ruby and Saphire.

Omni Hunter · Post by **Omni Hunter** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 3:57 pm

I dare say the Pokemon craze was dead by the release of Yellow.

Tsuyoshi-kun · Post by **Tsuyoshi-kun** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 8:11 pm

smiths32 wrote:The Pokemon craze was dead before Gold and Silver were released; let alone Ruby and Saphire.

True, but I still cared about the RPGs three years ago. Now I don't even care about them.

And the anime needs to end. Now. How it lasted this long is beyond me.

Neo Yi · Post by **Neo Yi** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 8:18 pm

And the anime needs to end. Now. How it lasted this long is beyond me.

I just wished the newer series of Gold and Silve and Ruby and Sapphire and other random colors the anime is based on would have just friggin' replaced Ask friggin' Ketchum with the respective video game counterpart. I'm just bitter since Ash Ketchum is an annoying little git.
~Neo

Double-S- · Post by **Double-S-** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 8:45 pm

Once somebody asked me if I got the pun in Ketchum.

Zeta · Post by **Zeta** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 9:37 pm

My older brother had a giant hardcover that collected all the Mario comics into one book... I used to read that thing over and over for hours when I was little. Those Zelda comics were even better too-- Did they ever release those in one big compilation book like the Mario ones? I hate digging through my old stack of back issues everytime I wanna see them.

I have those too, they're not the comics that were run in Nintendo Power. Nintendo Power ran manga written in Japan based on Super Mario World and A Link to the Past. Both were later released as softcover collections available through videogame stores or Nintendo Power catalogs. The Mario comics also had three follow-up stories by the same author featuring Mario and Wario's rivalry.

There were also other, American-produced Nintendo comics published by Valiant and later issued in hardcover editions. The primary series was Mario Bros, based on Mario Bros 2, and later on Mario Bros 3. There was also a series of Zelda comics based on the animated series (well EXCUSE ME, PRINCESS!) but as the series grew, they became closer to the adapations in the games. Most notably, the Zelda comics actually closed with Ganon being permanently killed (although Link almost turned into Ganon in the process).

Captain N was also one of the series they produced, with several mini-comics running alongside it. Most notably Metroid, Punch-Out, and a handful of others.

Zelda, Captain N, Metroid, and the Punch-Out comics were all collected in one big hardcover, seperate from the Mario comics.

The StarFox and Super Metroid manga published in Nintendo Power were never collected. They also had a mini-Blast Corps comic during the N64 era that I believe was the last series run in Nintendo Power . . .