I just discovered another of those guys that gives you 100 rupees when you find his hiding place.

Until now i had lived my life believing there were only two

4/5/2009 3:52:16 PM

4/5/2009 4:13:57 PM

pay me for the door repair fee

4/5/2009 8:31:54 PM

There was a hidden 1up block in Mario 3 that I found that wasn't in the official strategy guide. I was very proud of myself that day.

4/5/2009 11:13:52 PM

IIRC I still have that same SMB3 strat guide from, what, 1990?

4/5/2009 11:36:45 PM

I stumbled upon some old issues of Nintendo Power last time I visited my folks

4/6/2009 12:04:08 AM

#1, sweet!

My cousin had a bunch from the first year... dunno what became of 'em

4/8/2009 12:53:37 AM

I think I have the original issue stored in a closet back home.

4/8/2009 10:29:51 PM

i downloaded the torrent of it a while back

good stuff

4/9/2009 8:30:35 AM

Ditto

but by a while I'd mean, err, back in '05? everything from pre-Power 1987 thru 2001.

4/10/2009 3:05:01 AM

Does anyone remember that black Nintendo book/strategy guide you could get back in the day. It had maps to everything in it. Metroid/Super Mario/Zelda and so on. That's what I want and it's most likely $Texas on eBay.

4/14/2009 12:25:35 PM

Did anyone else have the Nintendo book written by some guy and his son, and on the front cover, it showed a half-human, half-robot (cyborg, as it were) playing Nintendo?

I can't remember what that book's called at all.

4/14/2009 2:36:47 PM

4/14/2009 4:56:50 PM

Haha, bingo. That was a great book; if I remember right, it was just a random father-son team who wrote it for a bunch of NES games.

4/14/2009 6:27:16 PM

Quote :

"Does anyone remember that black Nintendo book/strategy guide you could get back in the day. It had maps to everything in it. Metroid/Super Mario/Zelda and so on. That's what I want and it's most likely $Texas on eBay."

I remember that. I also remember when Nintendo Power had that big promotion with 4 free player's guides if you subscribed for two years. There was the NES Atlas, the Game Boy Guide, Super Mario World Guide, and the big book of codes IIRC. Man that takes me back.

4/14/2009 6:30:21 PM

and who can forget the game genie?

I still remember some of the codes haha

4/15/2009 5:25:56 AM

Its funny how the list of game genie codes has expanded since that first purple book came out

4/15/2009 1:12:31 PM

At one point I had every Nintendo Power from issue 1-60, maybe a few more after that. Also had a few of the newsletters they sent out before they turned them into a full magazine. I still have one of the Team Power pins that you got for renewing your subscription too.

4/16/2009 9:13:45 AM

i remember the game genie

but how the hell do you remember any codes for it

4/17/2009 7:03:09 PM

my favorite piece of nintendo nostalgia is the Contra Code That EVERYONE remembers.... or at least gets close to!

4/18/2009 10:50:02 PM

4/19/2009 2:58:40 AM

Somebody made a song with the contra cheat as the song title, I think it was korn.

5/10/2009 2:38:28 PM

^it was The Ataris

5/11/2009 9:05:33 PM

On sunday I went through Super Mario World and completely (as in all levels and all exits: *96) finished it in one sitting My wife was not as enthused as I.

[Edited on May 12, 2009 at 10:01 AM. Reason : I really want her to pick up and play Super Mario RPG but fat chance.]

5/12/2009 10:00:54 AM

^^^^ It always bothers me how "select" has been added by many as part of the Konami code. But just a little bit.

6/3/2009 4:26:00 PM

^^ jeeze

I want to do the whole Mario 3 all levels no dying. I have done the double whistle to the end without dying, but the stamina factor for all the levels seems a bit much.

6/9/2009 10:20:13 AM

FUCK
SKY
WORLD

Honestly I had more trouble with that world than the last world.

[Edited on June 18, 2009 at 11:10 AM. Reason : .]

6/18/2009 11:09:40 AM

Quote :

"Also had a few of the newsletters they sent out before they turned them into a full magazine."

it was called nintendo fun club. i send in three of those fliers to get it and I got three issues of fun club every time, and when i subscribed to nintendo power, i got three each of those too. i know ive got at least two of every issue up till about #6

remember issue #2 when Simon's Quest came out, so on the cover they had some dude holding a SEVERED BLOODY HEAD by the hair?

i remember parents being "concerned" about that


oh and the "Black book", some of the SUPER secret stuff was written in red ink (SO it couldn't be photocopied and then re-distributed!) and it also made the shit damn near impossible to read

[Edited on June 18, 2009 at 1:35 PM. Reason : readafs]

6/18/2009 1:33:40 PM

Quote :

"It always bothers me how "select" has been added by many as part of the Konami code. But just a little bit."

I always said you could tell who grew up with friends by how they recited the Konami code. If they threw select in there that means they were playing a 2 player game, but if they didn't, that means they always played by themselves.

6/19/2009 12:14:41 PM

I actually had friends and played video games by myself as a kid.

6/19/2009 2:21:06 PM

You can play a good number of old NES games here (w/o having to download an emulator):

http://www.nintendo8.com/

I've been killing a lot of time playing Bad News Baseball.

6/22/2009 9:05:41 PM