You totally beat me to it. I had this exact story in the queue waiting to be approved.

Haha this is the best!!

I never had this issue, but my cousins did. They were the ones who showed me the NES for the first time.

Awesomes!

wow that really takes me back… WAY back. Im so old lol

I want to see a scan of the Castelvania Cover.
Decapitated Dracula! I can remember seeing a 1cm x 1cm image of it in a recap-cover issue they did… for either #50 or #100. Can’t remember. But man… i’d love to see some oldschool Nintendo gore.

i really love some of the write ups for super mario bros 2. “don’t panic. you must have courage to persevere!” that kind of stuff.

Anyone remember “The Nintendo Fun Club”? It was a newsletter format printed on xerox paper (or newsprint) that pre-dated Nintendo Power.

Hey, whatever happened to ’scanning copyrighted material is bad’?

Im pretty sure this counts as written abandonware

racketboy’s Retro gaming site is great. You should all check it out:

http://www.racketboy.com/retro/

Too Bad SMB2 blows. I’ll still read the issue cover to cover though…

i just turned 7 when this came out.. onfortunetely i didnt start subscribing till the battletoads issue.. FREE DRAGON WARRIOR! :d

Thanks so much for your support guys!
I’ve been a 4CR reader and podcast lister for quite a while, so it’s a please to see myself on here

I still have this issue somewhere Interesting fact — if you look in the highscore section you’ll find Cliff Bleszinski (”Cliffy B” of Epic/Jazz Jackrabbit/Unreal/Gears of War fame) in the Super Mario Bros section.

Anyone else getting the feeling that Nintendo is coming back?

and they say time travel isnt possible

I still have my first issue.

This was actually available at a billion other places before, albeit in torrent form. It’s kind of surprising how many old magazines have been scanned by people. It’s more work than I’d be willing to do lol

Hmmm… Anyone notice all of that personal information on page 89? That should have been blurred out…

Ahhh, memories. If only Nick wasn’t whoring my NP mags…

I had it once. I threw all my older issues away though. Man, having to wait bi-monthly for NP back then was hell. I subscribed all the way up until Donkey Kong Country 3 was released, and I didn’t even own a SNES through out that period until a month or so after I unsubscribed. However, it was still a treat to receieve it in the mail and then dig through looking at all the art on players pulse and looking at all the screen shots. One thing I remember doing is visiting the dentist and then staying an additional hour because they had a SNES there with alot of the big hits I’ve read about. Man, it was great. It was because of that very SNES that I was able to convince my mom to get me one. Nintendo had thier systems everywhere back then. Sad that you don’t see anything like that with the gamecube today. :\

I still have tons of NP and NFC magazines from when I was younger. I also managed to get some old Atari Age magazines from my older cousin. I’ve been waiting to do something like this but I never found anyone else interested. My copy of Issue #1 is free of creases unlike this PDF. I remember someone starting a wiki site to scan in old magazine but i dont think it ever took off. If anyone has any ideas, let me know…

Sweet, it’s still downloading, pretty fast thanks to my download manager.. But yeah, can’t wait to read this, I weren’t into a lot of the magazines, just about 2 or so back then.

Somebody…please do more of these!