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.