Final Nintendo Power: The end of an era

[A Black Falcon]

You don't feel sad? I definitely do. Sure, the paper magazine can't have up-to-date information, but there's nothing like reading things on actual paper... the internet can't compare. Sure, I haven't mostly subscribed to NP -- I subscribed for two years in the mid '90s, then one year a few years ago when I got a $5 yearly subscription -- but I did read it for many years because the town library at home got the magazine, so I just got it from the library and read that. I haven't been reading it as much this last decade, in part because the magazine is more for kids than for all Nintendo fans, but still, the ones I did read were alright. It's too bad it's gone... I would like to think that there's still a place for magazines today. I love the internet, but reading stuff on a webpage is just not the same.

And on that note, I saw a copy of this last issue in the supermarket today, so I picked it up. It's apparently already getting hard to find. It does come with a poster; it's of all of the NP covers. Nothing on the back. Still though, nice inclusion. And of course the magazine cover reflects the first issue, and the contents have a bunch of retrospective stuff and such.