Do you own vintage Nintendo Power's?

[SonicBoom]

I Have been looking for old nintendo powers in a good condition. Do you own any? Not gonna ask to buy em of you, Just curious.

[Oobgarm]

Numbers 1-150. I got them all through subscription and read the crap out of them. I replaced them with a huge lot I bought back in 2004, all books in superb condition.

It's a collection I'm proud of and continue to browse through often. They've impressed everyone that's seen them.

I have a couple Fun Club News kicking around, too, also from a subscription.

[SonicBoom]

Numbers 1-150. I got them all through subscription and read the crap out of them. I replaced them with a huge lot I bought back in 2004, all books in superb condition.

It's a collection I'm proud of and continue to browse through often. They've impressed everyone that's seen them.

I have a couple Fun Club News kicking around, too, also from a subscription.

NICE!
That's what I want one day. Unfortunately, I Am a 14 year old born in the wrong decade with no money.

[Panzerfuzion]

I have every issue up until a year ago. The magazine has gone way downhill in the last 4 years or so, it's turned into vanity fair.

[Natty Bumppo]

I have a complete run until the SNES stuff stops appearing. I have assembled the collection from yard sales and thrift stores - wherever I could find them - so the run varies in terms of condition.

One thing I have that is really handy is an index that Nintendo put out that lists games by title and what issues had information on them (listed by department).

This site has much the same info - I think the paper one covers more issues:

http://www.math.duke.edu/~mjenista/np_index/index.htm

[YoshiM]

I was stupid years and years ago and stored my mags (first year of NP, first year of EGM, VG&CE, etc) in a leaky shed and they got water damage. Spent the last 9 years replacing them and then some.

I was able to get that first year of NP back along with the first issue of Nintendo Fun Club News along with the last four issues.

Like the rest of my mag collection, I do reread them, so it's always a fun trip down memory lane.

[Jorpho]

I have every issue up until a year ago. The magazine has gone way downhill in the last 4 years or so, it's turned into vanity fair.I say it was over when they started packing it with ads. I remember the day I saw this big multi-page thing starting with "Christmas is coming. Beg often. Beg early." or something to that effect. It was sad. So sad.

I have most of around 44 to 100 kicking around.

[Panzerfuzion]

I say it was over when they started packing it with ads. I remember the day I saw this big multi-page thing starting with "Christmas is coming. Beg often. Beg early." or something to that effect. It was sad. So sad.

I have most of around 44 to 100 kicking around.

Yes my friend, my vanity fair reference was referring to the magazine. It's a magazine that is full of fluff pieces and every 3rd page is an add.

[Jorpho]

What I meant was that they started with the ads much longer than four years ago.

[Steven]

huh... coincidentally I was just flipping through some old NP issues earlier tonight... first time in many moons too.

I have the SNES issues (1991-1996). It was actually pretty decent during the SNES years. I loved how they gave 4-6 games 4-6 pages of coverage every month. Underrated during the SNES era as a magazine IMO

[Rickstilwell1]

The only really old ones I have left are 1 and 78. I started my subscription at 96, but sold all those up thru 1999 because retromags has them viewable for free. From 2000-2006 I still have them for sale. I wonder when retromags will push the bar up a little higher, like maybe 2005. Seems long ago enough.

[Suikoman444]

I have almost all of them from the N64 and Gamecube eras. I'd be willing to sell by the way if you're looking for anything specific.

[Shulamana]

I used to have issues from the mid 50s through the 110-120s, but recycled them in the late 90s because they were falling apart.

I currently have only one issue that I bought online last year, but will shortly be trying to build my collection back up and eventually get most of the better years anyway.

[o.pwuaioc]

I have every issue up until a year ago. The magazine has gone way downhill in the last 4 years or so, it's turned into vanity fair.

I'd actually put the major turning point in the mid-90s with the advent of the N64, or the "Ultra 64" as it was then billed. The magazine I loved during the early 90s, quasi-kiddish, fun, goofy, yet still serious enough for serious games (such as the Zelda comics), all went away with the N64. That's when I think it's charm went away. I used to have all of them up through 1994, but then they got lost (or thrown away) in a move. I know am trying to collect them again, but I only have about 10 or so.

[skaar]

I stopped reading Nintendo Power around six months into the SNES era. I still didn't like SNES stuff in the magazine.... was weird.

I picked up a freebie copy at e3 a few years ago and it had Sonic on the cover. Blew my mind.

[Genjackson]

Mine go back to SNES. They make for great bathroom reading material. I have some really old gamepros.

[jb143]

I have a bunch from the NES era, many from SNES, and several from N64. Most came from thrift stores, the others were given to me from someone at work that knew I collected such things. It's been neat reading through them since I never really did growing up other than a few times when someone brought one to school.

[wiggyx]

I only have issue #1 left. I kept it just for nostalgia's sake. I tossed the 4 or 5 years worth that followed (along with about 6 years of EGM) after having to move them twice. Total pain in the ass moving hundred of magazines from apartment to apartment, house to house :(

[o.pwuaioc]

I only have issue #1 left. I kept it just for nostalgia's sake. I tossed the 4 or 5 years worth that followed (along with about 6 years of EGM) after having to move them twice. Total pain in the ass moving hundred of magazines from apartment to apartment, house to house :(

You couldn't sell them!?

[Shulamana]

I only have issue #1 left. I kept it just for nostalgia's sake. I tossed the 4 or 5 years worth that followed (along with about 6 years of EGM) after having to move them twice. Total pain in the ass moving hundred of magazines from apartment to apartment, house to house :(

I honestly can't imagine being too lazy to move another dozen boxes around every time I moved.

[Videogamerdaryll]

I had a bunch of vintage Nintendo Powers ,most lost in flood irene(basement storage)..I was able to save a few now burried up in my apt..

I have a friend in MD who has a bunch of vintage Nintendo Powers and other mags,anime etc ...he wants to give me to sell but though I do go to MD I go to race and don't have the room in the van for all the boxes no ,the time to drive to his place to get them(3 hours away from me)
So I may never get them..

Are they worthwhile to go get?

[Rickstilwell1]

I honestly can't imagine being too lazy to move another dozen boxes around every time I moved.

They can be VERY heavy, but I would have at least given them away, not trashed them if I couldn't get anyone to buy them. That's just wasteful.

[buzz_n64]

I have issues 1-200. Got them free from a friend. :D

[DOAsaturn]

I started subscribing pretty early on, I think I start with the Dr. Mario issue (#18) which I bought at KB Toys. The Mega Man 3 issue (#20) was my first as a subscriber and, by chance, that went on to be my favorite game of the NES years. I know I subscribed through most of the N64 years if not a year or two of Gamecube. I didn't even own an N64 lol (and it's still one of the few mainstream vintage consoles I don't own, the other being the Sega Master System) I think there are still some posters taped up in my sister's old closet.

I organized all my gaming mags last year and have still held on to every one I've ever owned except I did sell a couple Sega Saturn and Official Dreamcast Magazines on ebay a few years back for like $20. I actually have purchased a couple issues of Nintendo Power recently and I don't mind the mag now, but it's not the same as the old days.

[wiggyx]

You couldn't sell them!?

I had no desire to sell hundreds of mags for a few bucks. They weren't worth much of anything when I tossed them about 7-8 years ago.


I honestly can't imagine being too lazy to move another dozen boxes around every time I moved.

Dragging them down 3 flights of steps, loading them into my car, then driving a few miles to a pizza place that I worked at while in college so that I could toss 'em in the dumpster where I wouldn't risk upsetting another business owner by loading their trash full of magazines is hardly what I call lazy.

Laziness would have been ignoring them.


They can be VERY heavy, but I would have at least given them away, not trashed them if I couldn't get anyone to buy them. That's just wasteful.

I didn't know anybody that would have wanted them at the time. If I did, I would've gladly given them away.

[SpaceHarrier]

All I've got left is the premiere issue, Mega Man 2 issue, Mega Man 3 issue, and SMB 3 strategy guide. After that, the next one is from the Gamecube era.

I totally missed out on all SNES and N64 Nintendo Powers.. (was reading GameFan at the time).

[InsaneDavid]

I had a subscription up until the issues in the upper 30's or so, think 37 was my last issue. I started with issue #5. Read the crap out of those, pulled out the posters, removed the strategy guide inserts, tore out codes, the usual stuff. The issues after that I picked up from a relative when they were getting rid of them, those were mint and complete. That filled in a lot of holes for the next 15-20 issues and was able to give me complementary issues to my originals.

Last year I paid something like $20 for a big lot of Nintendo Powers locally off craigslist. I didn't hear back for like a week then was contacted out of the blue. Didn't hear back for another week, thought the deal had fallen through, but it all worked out. That lot was #1-#60, missing a couple here and there, in excellent condition for the most part, posters intact. Here and there a title would be cut out, I guess to paste into a Christmas list or something. I went through all those, repaired the pages that had cuts in them just to make sure everything was together. If the issue was in better shape than my original it was kept, if it was in worse shape then I gave it to my brother to flip through rather than toss. If an issue was in worse shape and had the poster, I removed the poster and laminated them as raffle prizes for a local middle school. LOL Even if a newly acquired issue was in better shape than my original, I still kept my original for the sake of nostalgia.

#75 or so is about as high as I would go collecting wise. It's interesting to read the issues that came after I finished with my subscription and the older ones are as fun to read now as they were originally.

[ncman071]

just so everybody knows....this thread inspired me earlier today to spend over an hour sorting all my magazines.....havent done that since we moved in our house.....i have a plethora of nintendo power, egm, gamepro, gameinformer, oxm, etc... hundreds....

anyway, actually threw away quite a few mags including all the edge mags, and some various sports magazines...

[RPG_Fanatic]

I have 1-50 in mint condition and bagged and I even have the "official" Nintendo Power magazine holders.


http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb195/stephbm6/133428643144235.jpg

[thebeeks]

I've got 121-174, but I'm not terribly sure I'd call those 'vintage'. Ideally I'd like to get 1-120 someday, but I'm not sure I have the space to properly store all that right now.

[SonicBoom]

just so everybody knows....this thread inspired me earlier today to spend over an hour sorting all my magazines.....havent done that since we moved in our house.....i have a plethora of nintendo power, egm, gamepro, gameinformer, oxm, etc... hundreds....

anyway, actually threw away quite a few mags including all the edge mags, and some various sports magazines...



You saying that made me feel good about posting this.

[skaar]

I suddenly feel this need to attempt to VGA grade a Nintendo power magazine. Then shoot myself.

[Panzerfuzion]

I suddenly feel this need to attempt to VGA grade a Nintendo power magazine. Then shoot myself.

Please, don't physically harm yourself. You have to much to give still, please don't burden yourself with the unholy temptations of sealing a material object.

[tom]

Surely nowadays the longest lasting video game magazine around

[FxMercenary]

I have 1-140 sitting above the TV! They are in great shape, all of the posters are still in them intact. I have a ton or extras all over the place in great shape as well. Some of the extras do not have their posters.

http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc184/fxmercenary/Game%20Room/GR4.jpg

[SonicBoom]

I have 1-140 sitting above the TV! They are in great shape, all of the posters are still in them intact. I have a ton or extras all over the place in great shape as well. Some of the extras do not have their posters.

http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc184/fxmercenary/Game%20Room/GR4.jpg

Damn you and your nintendo powers!

[DigitalSpace]

I have a few that I've found at thrifts, mostly from the SNES era.

[fahlim003]

I only have a handful and I got them second hand at a thrift store. 32, 41, 47, 61, 64, 65, 70, & 73 - plus the SMB3 cover issue and the SMB3 player's guide. I'm actually having some regret not scooping one of the bundles recently sold by the almighty Bratwurst, although the issues I'm looking for (32, 50, & 57-60) I'll probably find eventually one day anyway. I didn't read any magazines back in the 1990's pardon MAD (from 1996 until... 2000) and briefly GamePRO (a couple issues in 1995). All the same, speaking of those NPs I have, I think they're great reads and pretty interesting given it was during the SNES/GB time - if I ever see any more from that time in good shape in the wild I'll likely pick them up but I'm beginning to think the found I initially had was an anomaly.

[Jimmy Yakapucci]

Since most of the venom has already been spewed over tossing copies out, I can now post. I picked up 15 or 20 of the early issues at a flea market for a buck apiece. I don't remember the issue numbers but I know that it was early since the stack had 3 of the 4 early players guides. The one that I was missing was Mario 3. I kept the other 3 guides and eventually tossed the rest of the regular issues. I may have posted on here when I found them so I will have to search and see what I can find.

[Gunstar Hero]

NICE!
That's what I want one day. Unfortunately, I Am a 14 year old born in the wrong decade with no money.

Join the club. I am also 14 born in the wrong time with no money to spend.

[SonicBoom]

Join the club. I am also 14 born in the wrong time with no money to spend.

It's a sad life.