Feature: Poster Children - Your Guide to Collecting Nintendo Power's Awesome Classic Posters

I had pretty much every issue from 1990-2000 plus all the Strategy Guides released in that time. Gave or tossed most of them years ago, which I now regret.

I would like to see a book with every poster from the Nintendo Power Magazine so that way we'd have every poster throughout the years in one single collection.

Ah Nintendo power I miss you so much.....

I miss gaming magazines. But they just cant survive after internet blogging came to.

Yeah, I shoulda kept those

I know it's not the same, but I enjoy reading Nintendo Force and Pure Nintendo Magazine every month still. Nintendo Force still does some pretty amazing posters.

My life is empty because you are gone. so is my mail box. lol I so wish some one would bring it back. wishful thinking.

This article made me go to the shed, pull out the storage box with my NPMs, and thumb through my collection. Those were great days to get your issue in the mail. The Nester comics were fun too.

I miss gaming magazines, but it's impossible to a magazine beat the internet.

Print is dead. And THAT'S unfortunate.

I had a subscription for 2 years. It was always so exciting when it arrived in the mail. I got the first subscription as part of a promotion for Donkey Kong Country 2.

I had to collect several Diddy Kong head tokens on the sides of cereal boxes and send them in to quality for the subscription. I ate a lot of Cheerios but it was worth it.

I think my parents kindly renewed it for me after the first year. Oh, and the posters were great but I never removed them.

I still have some of the last issues lying around somewhere

@RupeeClock

It is not a review as advertised. It is more likely a mini guide, something Nintendo Power often featured.

My parents threw away most of my magazine collection as a kid.
But I think I still have a folder with the posters (probably most or all of the 1993-1996 issues)

I still own every Nintendo Power issue to this day, along with the classic player's guides that came with renewal...even own some of the old brochures featuring Dr. Mario and Gameboy pamphlets. It is extremely fun to look back on them and see my childhood again. I still can't believe that I've had a subscription to the magazine for that many generations, but I always looked forward to reading it, even if I didn't have the latest nintendo system right away. I even still have some old Electronic Monthly and Gamepro magazines. My nintendo power's are still in a nice box with everything attached...including all posters, comics and the wonderful trading cards and sticker sheets. I just wish I would have collected everything that I could from Club Nintendo, instead of getting mostly game downloads. Anyone know of how much some of these items are actually worth???

if it wasn't for Nintendo Power I may be illierate. I loved getting these magazines in the mail as a kid. I remember me and my brother changed the controls on Super Metroid and subsequently couldn't sprint past the gates in brinstar as we had no idea how to dash. I remember raking leaves one Fall so we could save up enough money to get the strategy guide but all we needed to do was hold the a button lol!

I was a Nintendo Power subscriber for years, and owned almost the entire first decade. Unfortunately, my collection was "misplaced" by my parents when I went off to college. A few years ago I started missing them and begin collecting them again via ebay. I wanted them for Nostalgia sake, as well as tips for my favorite classic games, and also for their great art.

I now own quite a few, and I've also collected a few issues from the Nintendo Fun Club, which had some awesome covers as well. Nintendo Power also had game guides included within many issues, which are also very collectable. SMB 2 had two guides, Dragon Warrior had a mini guide and then there were the guides with tons of games, where you could check off which games you owed & wanted.

It's great to have there, as it's a literal transportation back in time. If you lived through that era, and had these, you will enjoy taking a walk back in time. For me, it was a bit of an emotional experience, as it brought me back to my childhood.

I bought all of mine on eBay. What I like about eBay is you can usually find many issues in mint condition. Almost every single issue I've bought, usually $10 or less, is mint. I see the prices have since surged though. But they usually all have the posters and the guides. My favorite poster remains the one from issue 2, from Catlevania 2, Simon's Quest. The map on that poster, of the world in the game, is awesome and remains one of the best.

I do like the covers of the Fun Club. The hockey one with the Wayne Gretzky like guy is awesome, as is the Zelda cover. Reading them is a literal blast to the past, with tons of still useful tips & tricks. An 80s child should not miss the opportunity to grab a few.

I also love a mini guide I collected called "How to win at Super Mario Bros.", which predates both the Fun Club and Nintendo Power, and goes through with fine comb, every single level of SMB. Very handy for Mario Maker!

Magazines used to be such a big part of gaming, that any serious collector must add a few to both enjoy the old school games to the max, via the tips & tricks, as all a to relive that era, via the reviews, comics, sales charts, etc..that defined NP. I also love reading the old interviews, with current & past Hollywood actors, who would even try their hands at game reviews.

Nintendo Power will always remain an indelible part of my youth & it is simply a joy to go back and relive my younger days via this print.

@JLPick
We are very similar! Go to eBay for the values and be ready to be shocked! I still remember going to the mailbox, to find my new issue, days before it was released. Nintendo Power was the first thing I ever looked forward to getting in the mail, and I remember looking out for my mailman, obsessively, around the week the magazine was due. I always checked the charts first, to see what games were the most popular...They broke it out by gamers, counselors and sales reps, and then did a combined chart. I always checked to see what went up, or down, every month.

I'm glad you still have your originals! That is RAD!

I loved Nintendo Power when it was around, and now I subscribe and love it's spiritual successor, Nintendo Force! I suggest ppl take a look at it if they are looking for a great Nintendo only magazine, and it comes with great double sided poster each issue

If anybody is looking for a Nintendo magazine to subscribe to, check out Nintendo Force!

So sad the only real magazine left is game informer. Horrible horrible magazine. Others are still being made but they have no presence.

Loved Nintendo Power. I became a subscriber in 2004 and I stuck with it for the rest of its run.

I recycled most of the contents of my Nintendo Power issues, would have donated if I realized back then that people were looking for them... However, I did rip out an extensive archive of NP's more interesting articles and posters that seemed extraordinary or ahead of their time.

For example, the Epic Center coverage of Fire Emblem 4: Genealogy of the Holy War in the August 1996 issue, despite the Nintendo 64 being right around the corner, was my first exposure to the series. I would have been sad about it not coming over here if I weren't so excited for Super Mario 64! In hindsight, I applaud NP for showing Japanese titles in the magazine, even if we never got them.

The best magazine, though, was probably Next Generation. It was a gaming magazine intended for professionals in the industry, and it had the writing chops and sophisticated technical journalism to match. If you wanted insider information, this was the magazine to get. That said, other magazines like GamePro and PSM were fun yet informative (and sometimes even poignant) in their analyses.

I first subscribed to Nintendo Power in January 1994, and I realized by December 2003 that the complexity of the coverage was clearly intended for children by that point, so I unsubscribed due to outgrowing it. Nevertheless, I still appreciate NP's introductory style of coverage, as well as the occasional real world references (such as the children's Super Mario Club meeting with Bill Clinton to lobby for a resolution of the War on Drugs, which he ultimately responded to by signing NAFTA) and professional links (such as the Redmond HQ's own Digipen Institute).

I have ever issue from 1 to 100 with the majority of posters still intact. They are a nostalgic trip for sure, I still read them regularly. I started subscribing again around 2008 and stayed with it to the end. The covers during that time were almost as good as the early days, although the content was usually pretty boring.

After the magazine ended, I switched to retro gamer out of the U.K. It's expensive to get it delivered to Canada, but so worth it.

Nintendo Power was always the highlight of my afternoon after a long school day. I got rid of a lot of them, but kept the ones that started shipping subscriber-exclusive covers until the final issue. I'll probably frame that "NP cover history" poster at some point; it was a very nice send-off for the subscribers.

I have some older posters lying around too, like that Prime 3 one above; I loved decorating my bedroom and gaming room with them...

NP please come back!

I have about 2-3 years worth of Nintendo Power Magazine, as I was a subscriber in it's last few years of it's run. I remember how much I couldn't wait to get the next issue after re-reading the current month's and past month's just for fun. It was also the topic of discussion at the lunch table once we all got our NP issue in the mail.

@RupeeClock
With a lot of pictures and walktroughs of some parts of the game I guess.