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>>8956048
>>8956053
But who is K. Eyser?

>>8956074
>Mario Powers
>You can't resist me MARIO
top kek

I know it gets said a lot but OP I want you to know I really enjoy these threads

>>8956141

>>8956162
I swear, DK64 was Rare taking bets on how much collectable crap they can stuff into one game before even they can't stand it anymore.

>>8956257
I still have my cool gold plated mew buried in a box somewhere

>>8956264
man what a psychotic way to run a contest
Mail in your game, they'll put mew on it and mail it back lol
I wonder if they had to like, pick a garbage pokemon of yours to trade for it because as far as I know there was no way to just add a pokemon

More later.

>>8956481
>Next Month:
>40 Winks
Move over, Mario!

>>8956282
That's exactly what you had to do. I won one of these competitions back in the day.

They sent a letter saying to only put one Pokémon in your team and it would be traded. So I put a caterpie.

My best friend fell out with jealous I had the legendary Mew and he didn't and wouldn't talk to me unless we cloned it. Eventually I gave in and said ok so we cloned it with a caterpie and a caterpie came out on both our ends and Mew was gone forever. I'm still fucking pissed to this day. Someone told me a while back that Mew likely had copy protection to prevent cloning so it was doomed to happen. I just thought we fucked up the cloning trick.

>>8956046
Years ago, the Simon's Quest cover was too scary.

>>8956081

Ario Elami: still arting? https://www.arioelami.net/concept-art

>>8956081
>>8957078
In an era where the envelope art is redrawing and referencing whatever new CG models or Pokemon stock art Nintendo Power shows off, that Ario decided to go with the comic all the way back from 1992 is a bit of dedication that I didn't expect. It was 7 years old at the time of this issue's publication.

One of my first NP issues, I was actually able to smell my old house while looking at some of the scans. Crazy how the brain works.

>>8956046
This has to be the ugliest fucking cover I've ever seen, for any magazine. Glad I had ended my subscription by this point.

This thread is making me nostalgia too damn hard

>>8958473
I fucking loved it. I was 12 years old, I loved Nintendo and WWF. Mankind happened to be my favorite wrestler so to see Mr. Socko on a N64 Controller was the epitome of 6th grade coolness to me.

>>8956175

I would like to know how many children actually drew checks in these boxes to keep track of their progress.

>>8956201

Four similar sports games at once: the N64 story

>>8956160
where is this boy today

>>8956309
hot

>>8956235
6'2" boob lady, put this one in a Chozo suit and make her even taller

>>8956257

Straight up advertising Burger King within an article now.

>>8956264
>Remember, send us only an entry card. DO NOT send your Game Pak--we'll contact you if you're a winner.

Poor dumb kids sent in their not-yet-winning cartridges in response to previous contests, it seems.

>>8956257
Those plastic Poke Balls had to be recalled because they were a suffocation hazard.

>>8956283
>PLEASE...KEEP YOUR FLAME BURNING.

Emotions getting intense here

>>8956971
>Someone told me a while back that Mew likely had copy protection to prevent cloning so it was doomed to happen. I just thought we fucked up the cloning trick.
They were full of shit. Whichever Pokemon is sent first during the trade animation is cloned. I made the same mistake with a friend's Flareon when I was a kid.

>>8956049
That controller looks like someone used it like an anal dildo. I…I know it’s supposed to be a bannana… am I just corrupted or do you guys see it also?

>>8956052
I always laugh when I see these old promo mail in offers. what do you think the reaction would be if they got one sent in two decades later?

“Do you guys still have the banana pak?”

>>8956295

Damian's entire face turned into a bloody ruin by Charmander's Pokéball. He will never see or speak again. You need to treat your Charmander well

>>8960204
He made facebook I think

>>8962491
I used to work at a... let's call it a used video game store. Sometimes we'd find old Sega advertisements from the 90s or whatever and try calling the number for shits and giggles. They were usually since redistributed to things like cruise scam offers.

>>8956310
Bros the scratch and sniff feature of this page doesn’t work when scanned…

>>8962491
Depends if it's still a active line or not.
That number is still used as a Nintendo support line.

So ask nicely, and they'll probably send you some old Tropical Freeze promo shit they have laying around.

>>8962497
I always find it weird when videosgames from the late 90s or early 2000s contain urls or websites. I don’t think any of them work and my guess the majority of them have been taken over by random
People for their own benign or malicious purposes.

there is an old Xbox game
Called phantom crash that featured music from like 50 independent Japanese artists, they all had urls for their pages in the game, and I think even as far back as like 2014 none of them worked. That would have only been like a decade after the game released…

>>8962505
>Remember Final Fantasy IX's strategy guide? PlayOnline has the answer!
Man, was this a ripoff.

>>8956059
>>8956057
growing up in the 90s I never noticed it because it just was what was normal at the time but did everything use this typewriter font back then? I see it a lot in old magazines. How did we end up with such bland homogenized typeface in all advertisements today? will stuff like this ever come back? Is it too edgy?

>>8962505
Hell, games used to have promotional phone numbers before that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wDVCzuwlVk

I remember reading about one that actually still worked, but damned if I can find the article.

>>8962505
The Dreamcast version of Comic Party had basically the same deal, where they collaborated with a bunch of real-life doujinshi groups and a bunch of them had links to their homepages. Except a few of them actually do still work.

>>8956298
>deer hunting game boy game
Was there even a market for this? Who would it be? Old boomers who couldn’t get out that season to hunt? southern kids who were so
Addicting to hunting that in their down time they hunted digitally to keep their skills sharp? I can’t see suburban kids buying this.

>>8962534
Me from the "used video game store" again. We had fucktons of used copies of Cabella PS2 games laying around. I think it was the second most common "junk game" we had after the Madden series. People apparently did buy them, at least in Nebraska.

>>8962528
Are you saying they’re hentai artists? the game link to Hentai artist pages? Kek.

I wonder why so many old games made use of urls like that, it’s almost kind of sad to me like people back then didn’t realize that stuff online didn’t last forever.

the idea that once something is online it’s there forever is kind of true but it also isn’t, I think it’s a lot more abstract than that.

>>8962534
We had one of them for our computer. It was basically sweeping the photo with the mouse, then clicking wildly when they cut to an animal video and hoping they go down. Of course, shoot something like a female deer or an endangered bobcat and the warden throws your ass in jail to end the game.

>>8962546
>mgs2 alert/evasion track plays
>have to escape

>>8962564
>accidentally hit wrong animal
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka2rLqNR5ug

>>8962546
I had a similar shovelware fishing game as a kid. I still remember me, my grandma, and little brother playing it together. I spent like 10 minutes slowly reeling in a HUGE shadow in the lake, only for the NPC to go "sorry, this is a BASS fishing tournament and that's not a bass"

>>8962576
>reel in the wrong fish
>all nearby ai turn hostile
>character is executed
>game has perma death mechanic
>have to start new game

>>8956330
>>8956332
Is tonic some kind of ray man bootleg?

>>8962594
He was made by the same people as Rayman as more of a prototype for what became Rayman 2.

>>8956325

>Only For N64
>Also available for the PlayStation game console and PC

Getting mixed messages here

>>8962484
just looked like a banana to me..
never seen an n64 controller like that either

>>8962484
I had that controller. Never put it in my ass.

>>8962897
>>8962881
Y…y..you guys didn’t see a yellow controller with poop on it… uh oh bros..

>>8956480
What did the N stand for?

>>8956298
>*NEW* HUD (Heads Up Display) for the Game Boy Color version

Some of Vatical's bullet points aren't so inspiring.

>>8963263
It’s an American thing don’t worry. I’ve had a HUD for years that helps me locate Mountain Dew and burgerking resteraunts.

>>8956365
finally, a playable Bruce Campbell on a Nintendo console

>>8956374

Poor Quest for Camelot.

>>8963168

>>8960204
she*

>>8956381
>Diddy Kong Racing proved that Rare could add depth to go-cart competitions, and the company's all-star Disney title made only for Game Boy Color continues to blaze that trail

So in conclusion, Diddy Kong Racing and Mickey's Racing Adventure are equally good.

>>8965912
Oh so they’re a speed runner?

>>8956053
HE

>>8956416
>This heroic knight made his debut on the Nintendo Entertainment System way back in 1986,

Only Nintendo hardware exists. Except Virtual Boy and the 64DD.

>>8956421
>the Boss Demon

He doesn't even have a name in this version?

>>8956426
>What do you get when you put two Kobe Bryant 3-on-3 Paks, two Game Boys and one Game Link Cable together? A far-out bunch of basketball fun, baby.

I don't like the far-out groovy theme they've chosen for this section. Fortunately, the writers don't seem to be super interested in staying in character.

>>8967549
More like NP's current staff couldn't be bothered to look up who Astaroth was.

>>8956443

First mention of Kwanzaa (misspelled maybe??) in Nintendo Power. A landmark.

>>8956443
>2. Rat - T + Pidgey - G + Ash = Rapidash

Did somebody forget to double-check the math here? Also, I have doubts about whether (Poe + Kane - N) / Gobi = Poe + Kane - N as they seem to be suggesting.

>>8969491
OH WAIT I get it, G is supposed to be represented by its name's pronunciation, not by its actual letter value, which equates it with the entire second syllable of Pidgey. Probably?

>>8956445

Kyle gives the only negative word on DK64, but Armond is the only one to actually give it a less-than-excellent score.

>>8956470
This sounds cool?

>>8956473
>He and his colleagues at Ion Storm have been creating Daikatana, an epic-sized, first-person adventure for the PC and N64.

the two greatest platforms, I can't wait

>>8956476
Amazing graphics. Which is a screenshot from the Mary-Kate & Ashley game and which is a still from the 2000 movie Our Lips Are Sealed? It's surprisingly hard to tell!

>The New Adventures of Mary-Kate & Ashley (1999, Game Boy Color) - reskinned version of Maya the Bee and Her Friends, which itself was a reskin of an unreleased South Park game.[4]
A pedigree of the highest quality right there

>>8956481
>OUR BIGGEST BONUS ISSUE EVER!

Good luck OP

>>8972490
Hey man, they can't be as great as this N64 lineup! Are you hyped for [64DD game that will never come to America], [regular N64 game that will never come to America] [game that is hyped but comes out in every region BUT America], [cancelled N64 port], [vaporware], or [racing game]?

>>8956327
Man I miss the 1999 glowing green and black aesthetic, pic related

>>8956480
>worked at Wal-Mart (back when it was spelled with the hyphen)
>electronics department
>I'm organizing the shelves and the boomer lady co-worker is helping a mom wanting to buy a Game Boy Color game
>oh my son has a Game Boy Advance, will this play on it?
>hmm it says "only for Game Boy Color"
>I come over and explain that the Advance came out later, that the phrase is saying you can't play it on an older Game Boy, but the Advance plays older games
>they don't believe me
>say "who are you going to believe, a parent or someone who actually plays these game?
>the mom still listens to co-worker and doesn't buy game
>cost the store one sale
Pic related.

>>8974242
I was the boomer lady I was just trolling you

>>8973892
classic cover

>>8962467
They got filtered.

>>8975358
Lmao you’re an asshole

>>8957957
Nostalgia is very powerful. Sometimes I remember the exact environment down to the general sensations from the weather to the sounds of my surroundings with regards to where I was at the time, despite not being there for many years.

I like cats