Author Topic: Zelda DVD included in new NP (Read 21848 times)

joshnickerson · « **on:** May 20, 2005, 01:11:36 PM »

It's not a demo disc, but it's a start...

http://nintendoinsider.com/site/EEEyyElplVMLzeSSzf.php

Ian Sane · « **Reply #1 on:** May 20, 2005, 01:14:16 PM »

I think the bigger news is that Nintendo Power is changing. I've been suggesting they make something not as useless for years. It's not a demo disc but just the fact that NP has changed suggests that we might start to see demo discs in the future.

ruby_onix · « **Reply #2 on:** May 20, 2005, 01:57:05 PM »

BTW, if you have three games registered with Nintendo (which just about everyone should have, to have gotten the Zelda bonus disc), you qualify for a free three-issue trial subscription to "the new" Nintendo Power.

Bill Aurion · « **Reply #3 on:** May 20, 2005, 02:45:12 PM »

NP has been getting a lot better in recent months and this Zelda DVD is only further proof of it...Now to wait a month to actually get it...

nickmitch · « **Reply #4 on:** May 20, 2005, 07:14:17 PM »

Totally signed up

TMW · « **Reply #5 on:** May 20, 2005, 08:38:09 PM »

Will I have to get a subscription to get it?

Or could I just pick it up in a store?

jasonditz · « **Reply #6 on:** May 20, 2005, 08:47:01 PM »

That and the free three months got me to sign up again. First NP subscription I've had since the 8-bit days. My last subscription involved three years and a free copy of Dragon Warrior. Perhaps they'll stick some free download codes for the Rev's download service in them in the future?

TMW · « **Reply #7 on:** May 20, 2005, 11:22:16 PM »

I signed up for a subscription when they had the Zelda Collectors Disc offer.

And has I had never picked a NP up, I was majorly disappointed by the magazine. But, I looked it this way. I bought the Zelda Collecters Disc for $20, and got a free magazine subscription.

anubis6789 · « **Reply #8 on:** May 21, 2005, 05:31:17 AM »

I guess I am a weirdo for acctually enjoying NP the way it was, but I do think this change is for the better.

One of the strategy guides in the first "new" issue of NP is Killer 7. I guess they are also growing up a bit as well.

stevey · « **Reply #9 on:** May 21, 2005, 06:30:27 AM »

I like how there changing for the the better

but I do want the letter art back

cant wait for the dvd

vudu · « **Reply #10 on:** May 21, 2005, 06:51:33 AM »

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Originally posted by: ruby_onix
BTW, if you have three games registered with Nintendo (which just about everyone should have, to have gotten the Zelda bonus disc), you qualify for a free three-issue trial subscription to "the new" Nintendo Power.

I got an e-mail from Nintendo about this. How exactly does it work?

Hypothetically, if I have 4 games registered at Nintendo and I use 3 to get my free issues of Nintendo Power and then in 2 months Nintendo says anyone who has 2 games registered with us will receive a free so-and-so, will I get my so-and-so, or will I only have the equivalent of 1 game registered because I used my other 3 to get Nintendo Power?

joshnickerson · « **Reply #11 on:** May 21, 2005, 07:00:24 AM »

If you have at least two games registered, you'll get the free "two game" gift. The registered games aren't "used" up.
For instance, Nintendo offers a new Zelda bonus for having four games registered. I register four games and get it. Later on, Nintendo offers a Metroid bonus for having eight games registered. I just have to register four more games to get a total of eight.

jasonditz · « **Reply #12 on:** May 21, 2005, 08:47:31 AM »

Subscriber since 1990! Admittedly with a decade or so gap in the middle... its cool that their website remembers me though.

ruby_onix · « **Reply #13 on:** May 21, 2005, 04:05:34 PM »

Yep. To elaborate a little bit more...

To get the Zelda bonus disc, I think you needed to have "a GameCube and 2 games" registered with Nintendo.

To get that Metroid bonus disc that they had, you needed to have "a GameCube and 5 games" registered. That meant that if you had gotten the Zelda disc (through registering games), you just needed to register three more games to get the Metroid disc.

To get these free issues of Nintendo Power, you need to have "three Nintendo products" registered. I'm pretty sure that means that anyone who registered in order to get the Zelda disc is already qualified (because a GameCube counts as a Nintendo product).

I was already pre-qualified, but I have more than three products registered, so I can't say for sure.

Here's the link to the new Nintendo Power website.

Flames_of_chaos · « **Reply #14 on:** May 21, 2005, 08:32:53 PM »

Well it could also mean any console and/or games registered they just have to add up to 3. Like i have 19 nintendo products registered there. Each free thing has a different stimpulation and no registered product gets "used up"

dack25 · « **Reply #15 on:** May 23, 2005, 11:38:39 AM »

Oh now they put DVD's or discs in the magazine after I don't re-subscribe. "Well it seems that dack25 didn't renew, we better start putting in good stuff now to piss him off".

couchmonkey · « **Reply #16 on:** May 25, 2005, 01:53:31 PM »

I actually liked Nintendo Power way back in the day...in the days of the NES and Super NES, I thought it had a real "club" vibe to it...like I was part of something. It felt like a publication by Nintendo fans for Nintendo fans.

But slowly and surely it made itself more and more commercial and I lost interest. Advertisements filled the pages, original comics were replaced by still-frames of the cartoons, and the strategies which had once seemed so cool to me stopped being cool because I learned that playing games without them was usually more fun. To some degree I just outgrew NP, but to some degree it lost what made it fun to read even though it was basically a big, biased advertisement for Nintendo. When they didn't have any renewal offer that interested me around the time the Cube came out, I quit.

But hey, free magazines, can't beat that! I'm interested to see what the "new" NP is like...I kind of doubt that it will appeal to me, but I have to agree that it's a good thing for them to at least try to change.

nickmitch · « **Reply #17 on:** May 25, 2005, 07:09:46 PM »

Whens it comming?

Infernal Monkey · « **Reply #18 on:** May 25, 2005, 08:55:14 PM »

>=| this is like the ONLY overseas gaming magazine we don't get here. Blaaaaaaarg.

jasonditz · « **Reply #19 on:** May 26, 2005, 07:38:39 AM »

Now... you... are playing with POWER!!!

Caterkiller · « **Reply #20 on:** May 26, 2005, 08:56:42 AM »

Maybe I will re-subscribe for little things like that. But hey does anyone know if I can get the Jan 2002 issue with the Smash Bros CD in it? My old one was lost and I soooo want to listen to it again, does anyone have it and is willing to sell it? I tried e-bay but with no luck at all.

NinGurl69 *huggles · « **Reply #21 on:** May 26, 2005, 01:43:53 PM »

I probably got one of last copies thanks to a sweet favor an NOA rep did for me when I emailed regarding the CD but I had subscribed a month late. He rolled my subscription back by 1 month and made my first issue the Jan 2002 issue+CD since they had some left (SCORE!!).

Good luck finding someone who'd give it up.

kennyb27 · « **Reply #22 on:** May 27, 2005, 04:26:04 AM »

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Originally posted by: Professional 666
Good luck finding someone who'd give it up.

That won't be me, I know that much. LOVE that CD. In fact its playing my CD player right now.

King of Twitch · « **Reply #23 on:** May 27, 2005, 09:34:32 AM »

Is it possible to get more than one subscription to a single house? I have multiple accounts with multiple game registers. I guess I could try it and send out a few copies of the CD to you poor LDC'ers.

vudu · « **Reply #24 on:** May 27, 2005, 11:07:09 AM »

I believe the CD in question was included in the January 2002 issue of NP. So unless you have a time machine, it probably won't happen. Nice idea though.

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