Nintendo article from the first issue of Game Player's magazine - May 1989

[SharpX68K]

Before this issue of Game Player was archived a week or so ago, I had only seen it once in a book store and cannot remember anything from it except the cover.

Nintendo in Japan - the Famicom and Famicom Disc system is not something that was covered much by other magazines.

Game Player's Issue 01 Vol. 1 No. 1 ( April May 1989) : Game player's magazine : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Game player's volume issue 01 april may 1989

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[Maximum Spider]

those clouds be like

: )

 

[Shard Shinjuku]

It was a good way of standing out against the official mouthpiece of Nintendo.

 

[unicornKnight]

In addition, the disk drive allows Japanese game players to buy new games from the comfort of their homes without waiting in lines at stores. This is made possible by adding another accessory to the Famicom a modem. Like the modems available for personal computers, this device allows Famicom owners to hook up their systems to the telephone lines and receive data remotely.

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Nintendo introduced the digital games first lol

PS: This would probably make piracy very easy

 

[Slayven]

I was always entranced by the Romance of 3 kingdom games, i should play one

 

[Niahak]

I was always entranced by the Romance of 3 kingdom games, i should play one

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Most of the available modern ones are really dense, and the classics aren't readily available in English anywhere (4 was available on the Wii U eShop, that's the last I'm aware of).

8 is getting remastered in the coming months and might be a decent entry point. It's still deep, but you can play as an officer under a ruler. That simplifies things and lets you experience things without having to make as many decisions.

If you had access to all of them, I'd suggest one of the SNES strategy games - ideally ROTK2, Gemfire or Genghis Khan II - and see if you enjoy it. All of those are fairly easy to get into comparatively and then you have a real rabbit hole from there.

 

[Slayven]

Most of the available modern ones are really dense, and the classics aren't readily available in English anywhere (4 was available on the Wii U eShop, that's the last I'm aware of).

8 is getting remastered in the coming months and might be a decent entry point. It's still deep, but you can play as an officer under a ruler. That simplifies things and lets you experience things without having to make as many decisions.

If you had access to all of them, I'd suggest one of the SNES strategy games - ideally ROTK2, Gemfire or Genghis Khan II - and see if you enjoy it. All of those are fairly easy to get into comparatively and then you have a real rabbit hole from there.

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Thanks for the suggestions

 

[Maximum Spider]

I was always entranced by the Romance of 3 kingdom games, i should play one

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They always had the best art on their promotional pieces.

 

[ConflictResolver]

God I love old gaming mags. Thanks for sharing this.

One of my lifelong goals is to read through the archive of all the major gaming mags.

 

[Vicman]

Fun fact I just remembered based on an old post from the other forum about mind-blowing video game stuff: the clouds and bushes are the same in Mario Bros... Just different color.

 

[giallo]

I had this issue. This and VG&CE were my go-tos until EGM surfaced a short time later.

I really need to go through the boxes in my parents' garage. I have so many game magazines from this era. I've got EGM from issue 3 up until 130 somewhere.

Before this issue of Game Player was archived a week or so ago, I had only seen it once in a book store and cannot remember anything from it except the cover.

Nintendo in Japan - the Famicom and Famicom Disc system is not something that was covered much by other magazines.

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[Imran]

Starting two paragraphs in a row with "In Japan," is something any editor would have killed me for today.

 

[Man God]

Nintendo introduced the digital games first lol

PS: This would probably make piracy very easy

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Nintendo discs had the word Nintendo stamped into them working as a physical copy protection...but people got around it pretty quickly.

The real issue was that after about two years on the market the size and cost of ROM fell dramatically and the rise of the various memory mapping chips plus the battery back up carts meant that discs were now smaller and noticeably slower than carts were.

 

[SharpX68K]

I had this issue. This and VG&CE were my go-tos until EGM surfaced a short time later.

I really need to go through the boxes in my parents' garage. I have so many game magazines from this era. I've got EGM from issue 3 up until 130 somewhere.

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I had this one

It's one of the few that still are not archived online.

 

[Ephonk]

Nintendo introduced the digital games first lol

PS: This would probably make piracy very easy

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Piracy on the NES was widespread anyways. I remember going on vacation in Spain and they were selling bootleg cartridges with 10 or even 100 games on them, or new ones for very low prices which were obvious copies.