Playing With Power
Playing With Power – Nintendo Fun Club News #5
Ready, Set, Go! It’s time for issue 5 of the Nintendo Fun Club News which features RC Pro Am. This issue is pretty much a copy of the previous issue in terms of layout and design. At this point, Nintendo was humming along in it’s plan to dominate the US video game market but I am surprised they didn’t spend more time promoting more titles though you can only do so much with 30 pages.
On to the magazine!
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- By this point Mega Man would have been released in the US. I don’t think Capcom expected it to be such a long lasting series at this point if they weren’t even advertising it
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- Good luck finding a game with a character named ‘Fatso’ in this day and age
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- Building up the hype for Zelda 2
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- Return of Donkey Kong would never release for the NES and Mario 2 would be much different than what I imagine most people were expecting
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- There is a great in-depth look at this by Jeremy Parish over at Anatomyofgames.com
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- I never knew the tip about standing between the statues in the Legend of Zelda!
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- Great tips to stay alive in Mike Tyson’s Punch Out
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- All NES favorites to this day
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- Pure, unabashed 80’s awesomeness
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- User reviews are their own brand of comedy
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- The games included on the high score list have been expanded this month
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- A great game with even better box art
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- Early cosplayers
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- While the design was good, the analog stick had no centering function so it would float around which never felt right
Issue 5 has crossed the finish line, what did you think? I really enjoy reading some of these tips for these old games because many of them I have always known but never knew where they came from and some I am learning brand new as I read them. Back when there was no internet to run to when you got stuck in a game, these kind of tips were gold to gamers but I think some of them have really been lost to time since they you can learn something new from them even today.
Now that I’ve got a few issues up, what does everyone think of the magazine and the posts? Is there anything you would like to see or anything you don’t want to see anymore? I’m not much of a writer and want the magazine to speak for itself so you can enjoy it as if you were a kid in the 80’s getting the magazine at home so let me know your thoughts!
Play with power!
Chris Owens
Chris Owens enjoys gaming history and wants to share it with whoever will listen. You can follow him on Twitter @metalslime80 for daily NES gameplay videos and other retro game links that he finds interesting.
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