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Main => Everything Else => Topic started by: Clthomps on November 16, 2006, 05:01:59 am
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What ever happened to the Days of Shameless Promotion via Cartoons..... I really miss classics Like the Super mario Hour and Captain N (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eI8tF8sbAP0) .
I think todays market is Ready for "Captain Wii"
And also what ever happened to the good old days of Nintendo Power, god who wouldn't want to read a review magazine made by the people who make the products in review.
Any one else Miss this stuff?
Well thats E'Nuff Ranting for now back to watching youtube.
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Yeah, back when Nintendo Power wrote awesome articles.If you want self-promotion, it's still there, thats why I'm not.
I dropped my subscription a long time ago, when the gamecube and new gameboys where comming out thats all they would talk about. I couldn't read about anything else from them and I didn't want either of those systems so the mag lost interest.
The NES days were the hay days, back when there were Nester comics and the cheats column actually had a purpose since the internet wasn't widely available. Did anyone else take a notepad to the grocery store as a kid to write down as many cheat codes as they could in the mag section while mum was shopping? I sure did.
And I still remember a letter in the fan mail section where someone asked what Nintendo thinks of emulators. They blew their lids and posted some honkey about how the console is always and forever superior (hey sometimes it is. sometimes.) and that all forms of emulation, even emulations of "Color A Dinosaur" are robbing them of the money they wouldn't receive at this point and thus sending them to the poor house. As if thats possible.
Though the 'full page taped-together-looking-screenshots maps' were nice for the super nes years. Not usually usefull as most games were preatty straight-forward, just seemed interesting as a kid, probably would be boring now.
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Never missed Captin N on Saturday Morning.
Don't forget about Nintendo's shameless self promotion with The Wizard (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgegPTZbrFo). "I love the powerglove. It's so BAD." --Lucas
I still have a huge crush on Jenny Lewis (http://www.jennylewis.com/). She's an indi-folk type singer these days...her music is meh...but damn If I'm not a 12 year old schoolboy every time I see her.
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Yup, and the Mario Bros Movie. Most thought it terrible, I thought it was decent.
Gotta love how they pushed Double Dragon and most of all Mario Bros 3 in the Wizard.