Nintendo Power... A Collector's Item

This magazine may have joined the dearly departed, but it will never be forgotten!

That's right folks... If you were born before the 1990s I imagine that you would not have only heard of , but maybe actually owned this magazine, a magazine that during it's production was initially called, 'Nintendo Fun Club News'!

Now for a little bit of history about this magazine, first off, this magazine was initially being created in house at, 'Nintendo Of America' as, 'Nintendo Fun Club' back in the mid to late 80s! Well it looks like in 1988 that, that this particular magazine was discontinued in favor of bringing to the world of Video Games at the time, 'Nintendo Power'!

Nintendo Fun Club News was the pre-cursor to Nintendo Power. 

Now the intention of Nintendo Power was to act as sort of a news/strategy guide, (initially just for video games that were made in house at Nintendo, but later would include games and what not that were licensed through Nintendo...)

This magazine would continue on through out the decades leading up to it's unfortunate end back in 2012... But during the height of it, and after Nintendo released the follow up console to the, 'NES', Nintendo Power started to add cartoon strips that would include stories from such classic games as: 'Super Mario World' and, 'Legend Of Zelda: A Link To The Past', and that is just to name a few!

Super Mario Adventures was the name of serialized comic that ran in Nintendo Power after the release of the Super Nintendo!

And that is just to name a few of the gimmicks that Nintendo Power did over the years that it has been around. a couple of more examples being a, 'Top 200 Video Game list' in issues 196 - 200, a top 20 list of all of the games that have ever been released for a Nintendo console as a way to celebrate Nintendo Power's 20th anniversary, and again that is just a few of them... Because if I explained all of the ones that have been around over the decades, we could be here for awhile...

Never-the-less, sadly, with the downfall of Nintendo Power, this magazine and all of it's issues have since become collector's items, so heck, if you are looking for a Christmas item for the gamer fan in your life this year... This might be the right gift for him or her!

This magazine maybe gone, but will never be forgotten!