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655983 No.655983 [Reply] [Original]

>this letter was submitted to Nintendo Power in 1991

>> No.656006

i would sue nintendo for stealing the name

about the rest, he's talking about a pc

i have a band in my pc, they're asian, so they are small enough to fit

>> No.656024

can't tell if autistic or little kid or little autistic kid

>> No.656031 [DELETED] 

>Super Mario Galaxy

Holy shit he saw part of the future amidst his delusions.

>> No.656035

Funny thing is i had a dream about mario Galaxy but in my dream it was called:

Mario:Shoot to the Stars

and the cover had mario looking up at the stars like some space marine.

>> No.656046

>>656024
Honestly, probably little kid. My younger self would have creamed over the notion of a system like that.

It's also pretty indicative of how far we've gotten since then.

>> No.656049

>>655983
I heard romours about that article, but I didn't know it was real

>> No.656054

>glen cove, ny

>mfw I knew Jimmy

>> No.656058

Never mind the Mario Galaxy thing, I'm calling my Wii The Raw Power System from now on. Although that name really deserves a crack of thunder

>> No.656080

>>656049
It's in Volume 31, which was the December 1991 issue. That's the one with Metroid II on the cover.

>> No.656087
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This is now a thread about awesome Nintendo Power covers

>> No.656094
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>>656087
I'm okay with this.

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>>655983

>> No.656101
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>>656094

>> No.656105
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>>656102

>> No.656106

>>655983
>could play any game from any video game system that ever was
Virtural console - Wii
PSN store - PS3
Live Marketplace - xbox360

>Play any song
iTunes

>> No.656110

>>656094
FUCK you, now I have to hit up ebay...

>> No.656117
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>>656105
And just so this thread doesn't get too off-topic, here's my last cover I'll post. It's the issue where the OP originated from.

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It's funny, I remember swearing to the high heavens that I came up with the idea for the PSP.

In hindsight all I was saying was "man, I wish Sony would come up with a portable PS1".

>> No.656140
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I loved the ones that used clay models.

>> No.656145

>>656140
So do I, anon.

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>>656145
forgot pic

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>>656102

>> No.656149

>>656140
Damn, I want that cover as a poster for my game room.

>> No.656161

>>656151
>exploitable

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>>656161
/thread

>> No.656203

You know what's always fun? Going back to old NP issues and seeing features for games that never came out.

>> No.656206

>>656094
I just realized that's the Magical Sword from LoZ1.

>> No.656225

>>656006
Vocaloid is not a band, is a Loquendo for faggots.

>> No.656228
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>friend's grandma heavily in to Nintendo games back in the 80s
>had a subscription and every magazine up until 2003
>read them all the time when I went over there, ever since I was little
>go there a couple of years ago
>I catch her right as she's about to throw them out
>NOPE
>she offers to give them to me for free
>go home loaded down with almost every Nintendo Power up until the GC era

>> No.656245

>>655983

>Glen Cove

Oh shit, Thats on Long Island.

I live on Long Island.

>> No.656283

>>656245
My condolences.

>> No.656391

>Jimmy Peterford, Glen Cove NY

facebook slash code1superstar

all grow'd up and still rocking

>> No.656397

>>656228
Damn that was lucky.

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>>655983
For a little kid I can honestly say he predicted the future well.

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>>656391
He'd fit right in with /vr/

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>>656391
>Graduated high school in 1996
>13 years old when he wrote that letter
>mfw I assumed it was written by like a 9 year old

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>> No.656449

>>656391

Holy shit, what a baddass motherfucker.

>> No.656450

>>656405
wtf?

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>> No.656474

>>656467
Please tell me I'm not the only one who's reminded of the artwork in The Watchtower and other Jehovah's Witnesses works.

>> No.656478

That poor kid that didn't know that Super Mario World wouldn't get a sequel until 2009.

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>> No.656482

>>656459
it's funny because you're a kid in this game...

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>> No.656495

>>656482
I'm sure that's supposed to be Freedan.

>> No.656503
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>>656228
I had a subscription from the N64 era all the way up to the end of the GCN era.

Your story kinda reminded me of this comic

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>> No.656516

>>656495

Yeah, I guess you're right. I just forgot about him.

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>> No.656525

>>656140
>Series of claymated Mario shorts by Will Vinton

In another world...

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>>656161
knock yourself out with it.

come up with the best shoops on this

>> No.656532

>>656503
That is fucking adorable.

>> No.656539

>>656503
>That feel when I bought three copies of the final issue

It's really weird not seeing NP in the magazine section of stores anymore.

>> No.656550

>>656539
EGM was better and older and it came back. Although I can't find a decent subscription deal.

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>>656563
that fucking eevee....

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>>656405

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>> No.656637

>>656467
>Right handed link

INTO THE TRASH IT GOES!

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>> No.656728

>>656607
>play test donkey kong 64

...whoa.

>> No.657305

It's too bad no one's allowed to do anything on here anymore, I have high quality scans of every Nintendo Power ever in my archives somewhere.

>> No.657324

>>656006
>i would sue nintendo for stealing the name

I'm sure that kid holds trademark/copyrights to that title, amirite?

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>>656128

That's where that guy's from.

>> No.657373

>>656550

seanbaby still write articles? This is important.

>> No.657410

>>657373
He writes for Cracked now, if you weren't aware of that.

It's the only worthwhile feature of the site unless you like "7 Fictional Characters Who Took Actions or Held Opinions that Don't Mesh with my Borderline Autistic Definition of Logical Behavior."

>> No.657430

>>655983
What's so special about this?
Mario "World" was already out by then, it's not difficult to think that a sequel would be named something bigger than World, like "Universe" or "Galaxy". I would bet at least a couple thousand kids back then thought the same.

>> No.657431
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657431

Any Mexibros that know about Club Nintendo magazine?

I used to buy it monthly... back in like 2006 and 2007...

It's still going, but I just don't bother to get it...

Maybe I'll pick up a new one, just to see how it is going

>> No.657440

>>657430
>it's not difficult to think that a sequel would be named something bigger than World, like "Universe" or "Galaxy".

or 64, or Sunshine, or "New"

>> No.657451

>>657440
Your point?
I would have been more impressed if he had mentioned any of those in the card, that would make it a more rare coincidence than the Galaxy thing.

>> No.657460

>>656106

>iTunes

more like rutracker

>> No.657461

>>657451
My point is that "Galaxy" wasn't a given as far as progression of SMB titles.

>> No.657469

>>656106
Which of those marketplaces lets me play Cybermorph or Way of the Warrior?

>> No.657478

>>657461
the kid didn't know that

>> No.657480

>>657410
>unless you like "7 Fictional Characters Who Took Actions or Held Opinions that Don't Mesh with my Borderline Autistic Definition of Logical Behavior."

At least those are *attempts* at being comedy, as opposed to the articles written by the likes of John Cheese which dispense life lessons or alleged worldly wisdom in a smug, pretentious tone and supported only by anecdotal evidence (or sometimes no evidence at all.

But yeh. Seanbaby is god-tier as he was before. DOB, Swaim, Soren, and Gladstone are usually pretty decent. The rest of their authors just aren't worth it most of the time, and Cheese will make you want to punch babies.

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>>656529

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>>655983

Nope! Too cute! Pocket Nostradamus here thinks he knows the future.

>> No.657495

>>657478
That was a rather pointless post. Of course he didn't. How would he?

>> No.657506

>>657495
oh my god I can't stand to see you guys go in circles.

You are suggesting that the child who proposed the name Super Mario Galaxy could not have possibly predicted it based off other Mario game name entries. The other person is saying that even though he was taking a stab in the dark, he based the name Galaxy off of extrapolating from "World".

Was guessing "Super Mario Galaxy" based on something bigger than "World" a guaranteed bet? No. Was the child applying rigorous logic to his prediction? No. Was he right anyway? Yes.

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>>656101
What's the name of the model?

>> No.657527

>>657506
>You are suggesting that the child who proposed the name Super Mario Galaxy could not have possibly predicted it based off other Mario game name entries.

No. I just said it wasn't a given. Stop twisting arguments.

>> No.657536

>>657431
yeah...dont bother with it, its not worth it anymore

>> No.657634
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>Super Mario Galaxy

>> No.657643

>>655983
I'm not saying Jimmy Peterford became an Illuminatus, but Jimmy Peterford became an Illuminatus.

>> No.657656

>>655983
>Super Mario Galaxy
As soon as I read that, I got creeped the fuck out for some reason.

>> No.657669

>>657440
Dude, this was a period of time where every child on every playground with two brain cells to rub together predicted the successor to the Super Nintendo would likely be named the "Ultra Something-Something-Probably-Just-Nintendo"...on the debut SNES.

Common lunchtime discourse? Who should be in the Nintendo fighting game that wasn't going to come out for another nine-ish years and what should their fatalities be?

>> No.657685

>>657669
Forgot my pic. When we saw this in GamePro and Next Gen, we thought we were so smart we applied for MacArthur Grants.

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>>657685
God dammit. No grant for me.

>> No.657697

>>657669
Where's Ultra Mario Bros? This is what the kids were talking about when I was in school and head about "Ultra 64".

>> No.657901 [DELETED] 

This one time I came up with this crazy idea.

>I called it the "Super Game Boy"
>Full color games, and backwards compatible with Game Boy games.
>I even drew a picture of it.
>5 years later the Super Game Boy came out. Shitty-ish cartridge add-on.
>5-ish years later the Game Boy Advance hits the scene.
>yfw it looked just like the picture I drew.

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657905

This one time I came up with this crazy idea.

>I called it the "Super Game Boy"
>Full color games, and backwards compatible with Game Boy games.
>I even drew a picture of it.
>5 years later the Super Game Boy came out. Shitty-ish cartridge add-on.
>5-ish years later the Game Boy Advance hits the scene.
>yfw it looked just like the picture I drew.

>> No.657909

>>657905
did you miss the Gameboy Color coming out?

>> No.657913

>>657669
Common lunchtime discourse for us was "If you beat Super Metroid in under an hour Samus gets naked." "NO WAY!"

>> No.658000

>grandma buys me subscription to Nintendo Power in 1991
>continue subscribing my entire adolescent life
>take great pains to complete pre-1991 collection at garage sales/thrift stores
>finally get them all
>when moving out, leave my three huge-ass rubbermaid containers of magazine in storage at home
>move to china for a year to work
>come home
>"Oh, anon! I traded in all those old magazines to the book store and got you almost a hundred dollars in book credit!"

now, i'm not exactly a soft person - i've held dying loved ones in my arms as they bled their last, i watched my first dog look me directly in the eyes as we put him down, i listened to a voice mail from my gramps that i had missed three days after he died and all he said was "anon, i'm proud of you", i saw that episode of futurama with the dog

but friends, i'd be lying if i told you that i didn't cry that day when i realized my entire collection was gone

>> No.658027

>>657909

I just skipped over to keep the post more to the point.

>> No.658034

>>658027

Whoops. The point was I thought I was pretty hot stuff for coming up with a portable super nintendo that could also play game boy games.

>> No.658050

>>656135
Who's she?

>> No.658284

>>657669
That, and that the 32bit Megadrive successor would be Gigadrive.

Funnily enough, nothing came out of that; it was a rumor in some 1990 gaming mag but probably nothing concrete.

>> No.658296

Where do you guys get your NP scans? Retromags seems to be devoid of all downloads.

>> No.659625

>>655983
>512MB system
>every game ever

aside from that, he essentially described a computer.

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>It was once alright to reply to kids in magazines this way

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>>659647
MY SIDES.
jesus christ!

>> No.659665

>>659625
No PC can play every game ever.

>> No.659669

>>659647
Seems like one of those "90s attitude" things geared towards 12 year olds that wish they were 16 year olds. Oh, 90s.

What mag was this? That letter's probably not even real.

>> No.659674

>>659669
Nintendo's official magazine in Australia.

>> No.659701

>>659674
Was fat boy only Australia? I seem to remember the name Fat Boy but i'm in the USA.

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>>656245