Post by: Jonnyboy117 on June 28, 2005, 08:36:05 AM
Top Designers Perform Major Overhaul of Nintendo Power Magazine
August Issue Will Contain DVD Trailer of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
REDMOND, Wash., June 28 -- The oldest video game magazine is now also the hippest. Seventeen-year-old Nintendo Power® has decided to grow up a little, just as its fans have. A major redesign, spearheaded by top designers Roger Black and Robb Rice, appeals both to adults who have grown up playing video games as well as to kids who may be discovering them for the first time.
"The new look of Nintendo Power just brings the magazine in line with its readers," Black said. "They've become more sophisticated and more diverse. Nintendo games appeal to a wider group, beyond the teenage base. Guys in their 30s still love Nintendo, and, hey, there are a lot of girl gamers now. We just wanted to make the magazine right for the whole Nintendo community."
Black is a legendary designer, best known for helping set the look of iconic magazines like Rolling Stone and Newsweek. The redesign he led will help Nintendo Power cater to multiple audiences while giving readers the same top-quality information that they have come to expect.
"Our redesign goal for Nintendo Power was to broaden the magazine's appeal by creating a fresh, unified look and focusing on the stories that really matter to Nintendo gamers," said Reggie Fils-Aime, Nintendo of America's executive vice president of sales & marketing. "It's all about empowering our readers, giving them the most authoritative, timely and entertaining content for the games they love."
To commemorate the new Nintendo Power, Nintendo is offering a variety of ways to get a three-month trial subscription for people to give the magazine a test drive. Fans will want to get in on the freebie deal early, because the August issue of the magazine will come with a DVD containing the trailer of The Legend of Zelda®: Twilight Princess in 5.1 Dolby Digital surround sound. The game, due this holiday season exclusively for Nintendo GameCube™, remains the most anticipated video game on any console this year. The DVD also will have reviews of 30 other games, while the magazine will provide details about Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection, the new wireless game service that will let Nintendo DS owners around the world play against one another for no additional connection charge.
The more than 1 million members of the My Nintendo customer loyalty program can get three free months of Nintendo Power by registering three Nintendo products online at www.nintendo.com. When they're finished with the trial, they can subscribe for 12 months for just $1 an issue, an 80 percent savings off the newsstand price. Already some 30,000 people have taken advantage of this offer, in addition to the 10,000 people who signed up for free three-month trials during last month's Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles.
To check out the magazine's new look and to review special subscription offers, log onto www.nintendopower.com.
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Post by: Karl Castaneda #2 on June 28, 2005, 02:41:58 PM
On a lighter note, I got my NP (the first one I've had come to my home in many, many years) this past Friday. I dig the new layout - seems very modern. Of course, I'm not too familiar with the old layout, so I couldn't say if it was an improvement or not. And I'm glad they switched to 10-point reviews - the more numbers you have, the more picky you can be. And if there's anything I like, it's being picky. Picky picky picky.
Post by: stevey on June 28, 2005, 03:36:18 PM
Post by: JonLeung on June 28, 2005, 04:47:58 PM
No matter what they do with it, it's nothing at all like the good old days when you cracked open a new Nintendo Power straight to the familiar manila envelope section with stage select and infinite lives codes for all those NES games. Ah well.
I like the redesign, I was a steady subscriber starting from when they gave copies of Dragon Warrior for the NES with a subscription at the start of 1991. I only missed out on the 2002 and 2003 issues, the magazine had kind of crappified a little before then. Or maybe more than a little. But the Zelda Collectors Edition disc and the Metroid Prime 2 Echoes preview disc made me resubscribe, and while the DVD is nice, I'd still like, you know, GameCube demo discs, MAYBE? If they had those (and Revolution ones soon), it'd guarantee my subscription forever.
Post by: ShyGuy on June 28, 2005, 11:12:50 PM
The DVD is pretty cool, The DS has some wild games coming out for it.
Post by: Ian Sane on June 29, 2005, 07:37:25 AM
Post by: 31 Flavas on June 29, 2005, 10:12:17 AM
QuoteDon't know what your talking about, i've got my issue right in front of me and the pictures look like fine, Mario Bros. included.
Originally posted by: Ian Sane
I got my issue yesterday but I haven't had a chance to check out the DVD. Some of the pictures in the mag though look like total sh!t. These aren't just poor screenshots, the colour's all faded. It's very noticable on the New Super Mario Bros shots. Is it just my copy or is it like that for everyone? Some other shots look amazing. It's very inconsistent and very unprofessional looking.
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Post by: ruby_onix on July 10, 2005, 03:45:05 PM
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I got my issue yesterday but I haven't had a chance to check out the DVD. Some of the pictures in the mag though look like total sh!t. These aren't just poor screenshots, the colour's all faded. It's very noticable on the New Super Mario Bros shots. Is it just my copy or is it like that for everyone?
I noticed this problem too. I've scanned a few bits to show people what it's like.
Megaman
New Super Mario Bros
It seems that occasional pages in the magazine have a problem with the blue. It doesn't all go on where it should, and you can see bits of it spattered in places where it shouldn't be. It's much less noticable on pages that (although similarly broken) don't have much blue.
I've had a chance to look closely at another copy of the same issue, and it's all the same pages that have this same problem, but the patterns of the messed-up blue within the pages aren't the same.
I figure this was a printing error. It would be funny if this happens to be specific to just Vancouver-area shipments.
Post by: Pale on July 10, 2005, 03:57:29 PM
Did anyone else notice the blurb on karaoke revolution party coming to GCN? Damn I hadn't heard that and it is quite surprising. Hopefully it will work with the mario party mic.
Scans to come shortly.
Edit:
Here are scans from my mag. Low res for sake of my bandwidth so ignore the pixelization. You can see the color difference anyway.
MegaMan
Mario
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Post by: stevey on July 11, 2005, 12:29:36 PM
That always happen to the 1st issue you get.
"then my replacement July, then my original July. "
What do you mean replacement July?
Post by: ruby_onix on July 11, 2005, 01:01:06 PM
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What do you mean replacement July?
Probably that he was waiting for his July issue. Then his August issue arrived. So he phoned Nintendo and asked "Where the heck is my July issue?" They said "We'll send you another." Then a week later, the replacement July arrives.
Then, maybe two or three months later, the original July issue arrives in the mail, very beat up, and sporting postmarks from seven or eight different countries on it.
That always seems to happen to everyone's first issue of the year. I'm not sure why.
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