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Pushing the boundaries with "decapitation covers" to the ever so family friendly "Duck Tales" A-Whoo-Hoo! Japan had it all coming down the pipeline to secure easy fast and friendly VIDEO GAMES for all alike. Be it America or over sea's, these intuitions and impulses had parents putting their best foot forward to complete the task of "parenting" while keeping the young ones motivated. Some parents even joined the fun, and we were glad for the bonding that happened to gain ingenuity experience points together! Thank the Lord.
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From home systems tying up the TV to portable systems to allow same room gaming, while the parents enjoyed television! The 80's sprang to life, and we had to keep up chores and outside experiences as well to stay humble!
  
Playing with Power was a bold statement, but it was humbling all the same when it also came with equipment and accessories. Beforehand were mostly joysticks. I had the Power Pad as a running or exerciser young and fit. The glove was intriguing but had some glitches reported, and the gun that initially came with the NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) that worked much like a TV remote. Eventually there were robot controls and speed joysticks with turbo buttons and the latter had a switch to control its speed to just hold the button down, which I owned for Street Fighter. Long days, but homework and family were the main focus, before friends and etc. took over for priorities. In the back or the wrestling mind was always what game to buy or commit to, even when renting from Blockbuster because you only had 3 to 4 days and then needed to return it until the next time you could check out, which meant late nights of trying to beat that last boss as you couldn't save on a memory stick with the NES.
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Nintendo Power 1 |
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Nintendo Power 1 Modern |
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CGC |
| Cert #: |
2018637002
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Owner Comments
Nintendo Power 1st Issue! Brought descriptions and codes with cheats to classic 80's Nintendo products! The hoopla of the decade and modern innovation, it was VIDEO GAMES!! Everyone had to have one for Christmas, and we all saved our lunch money to pay our parents back, because we didn't feel worthy LOL Nintendo today has competition for sure but is surviving and is embracing that epic classic style. Be it side-scroller or just plain old Mario as a jumper, I consider Nintendo the "Disney" of my generation. They call that grandma style. Nothing wrong with the new, we all love video games the world over. I still like to see the "grandma" stick that ollie landing! Many a franchise was started on the Nintendo Platform, and I'm forever grateful. Almost any genre had their hits and tricks, for knocking it out of the park. Problem is, even back then, was the expense and dedication it took. Luckily, there were things like Blockbuster Video where you could rent a game to play over the weekend!
In short, too good and proud of nostalgia for that back cover to replace with something else, looks good on its own!
Grader Notes:
Bottom Back Cover Crease;
Full Left Front Cover Multiple Crease;
Left Center Back Cover Finger Bends;
Right Center Front Cover Small Stain;
Spine Stress Lines;
Top Back Cover Medium Crease Breaks Color.
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Nintendo Power 2 |
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Nintendo Power 2 Modern |
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CGC |
| Cert #: |
3781297002
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Owner Comments
Castlevania II: Simon's Quest! Decapitation COVER! Castlevania was the bee's knees on any platform. Gameboy was my first experience with the game, and it is a must have! Nintendo has it on the Nintendo Mini System, which I own and relive playing with such nostalgia!! This issue is "complete" universal label with double-sided poster Castlevania/Bionic Commando. Insider's Calendar Included. NON-SUBCRIPTION EDITION SO NO ADDRESSES ON LABELS! NICE AND CLEAN LOOKING! Bought from boardie Stormshadow_80. Pleasant surprises are still around for collectors of nostalgia, the years we look back are just as fun to look forward in these current technology days of advancement. This is such a "smart" looking mostly all black cover, front and back! I'm leaving the back cover picture of the actual issue in the slab, because it accurately shows the white box that has no address label printed on it. Issue #1 doesn't have the box for subscription, but most of the issues after do and I want to be able notate when found!
Back Cover is useful as a tale without an address nor subscription, and that is that, playing with power.
Grader Notes:
Full Right Front Cover Wear;
Left Top Front Cover Crease Breaks Color;
Right Bottom Front Cover Crease Breaks Color;
Right Top Front Cover Crease Breaks Color;
Spine Stress Lines.
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Nintendo Power 3 |
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Nintendo Power 3 Modern |
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CGC |
| Cert #: |
3781297003
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Owner Comments
Track and Field!! Captain Nintendo!! These classics were the mascot and the exercise of the 80's. I remember when my parents came home with the exercise foot pad that plugged in, to be able and run faster than the Olympians of the game, and at top speed. Woo-Hoo, bonding with my brother and 'keeping it real' to be in shape. We'd run so hard making all kinds of noise and pretend to be super-heroes! "Blaster-Master" poster. NON-SUBCRIPTION EDITION SO NO ADDRESSES ON LABELS! NICE AND CLEAN LOOKING! Bought from boardie Stormshadow_80. It ramped up in innovation with the Nintendo Power Glove, which came first, and now the Power Pad. It was Nintendos tagline to "play with power!" Home computers were becoming popular, but with new cartiridges coming out frequently, the gaming systems meant people could buy a base system and follow up with new stuff all the time. Back when a base computer was used for business came the playful side with games! To be interactive with different ways of pushing a button: controller, joystick, pad, or glove.
Complete with a back cover picture of the Captain Nintendo Series comic, issue#3, that they speak of on the cover! It was certainly "captivating", as it even had its own cartoon series on television. It makes the whirlwind of innovation to make some Christmases eventful. Today it can be as simple to walk down the street and find the innovating ideas available for sale, but the days of door busters will still be there and will come again!
Grader Notes:
Front Cover Lite Multiple Wear;
Full Left Back Cover Multiple Crease Breaks Color;
Left Top Front Cover Crease Breaks Color;
Right Top Front Cover Crunch Breaks Color.
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Nintendo Power 4 |
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Nintendo Power 4 Modern |
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CGC |
| Cert #: |
3781297004
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Owner Comments
Zelda II: Adventures of Link! From 1989, the possible Silver Age of Gaming. NES games and puzzles were all the rage, and there is none mightier than the Link games when it came to interest, replay value, and hours spent trying and failing to discover doorways, hidden tunnels and the next part of the story! Then there was the Skate or Die/Zelda II double sided poster. My friend had the Skate or Die game, and you either had the skills or suffered falls continuously! NON-SUBCRIPTION EDITION SO NO ADDRESSES ON LABELS! NICE AND CLEAN LOOKING! Bought from boardie Stormshadow_80. Good friends could meet up for comics, video games, and or conventions, and with the surplus of innovations out there, the gambit is wide open for adventure! Get yourself a partner and Dosey Doe, make it a night all to yourselves!
Complete with a back cover picture, sporting the Zelda II opening that is advertised on the cover of this issue #4, operating on the Mini NES and beckoning the impossible. High places and experience are obtained, after the valley full of testing and swashbuckling. In order to succeed in a town called Hyrule, in a call for action the qualifying will take place! Sometimes the call comes first though, as a set place to obtain the victory! With thy nerve steady and for the glory set before you, bring along the Nintendo Power as you are being sent out to endure and achieve!
Grader Notes:
Back Cover Lite Multiple Wear;
Bottom Front Cover Crease;
Front Cover Lite Multiple Wear;
Full Left Back Cover Multiple Crease Breaks Color;
Right Top Front Cover Crunch.
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Nintendo Power 5 |
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Nintendo Power 5 Universal |
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CGC |
| Cert #: |
3788275010
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Owner Comments
Subscription Edition. Well, ended up with someone's shipping label on this issue. I got this and #8 from the same person! Subscription editions aren't all bad, but they need love too. Ninja Gaiden cover, the game that is for sure on the Nintendo mini system, and a Strider Poster included. Strider is on my Arcade1up cabinet that is coinless operated, with infinite lives! Style never dies, it doesn't fade, it is only appreciated in a different way. Sometimes the style is invisible to those who look or are blinded by other ideas, whatever they may be, but classics are classics and for the reason that they were important when created! Market success changed something by being sought after, and these can still be in demand and innovative today, in a different idea or way. I've seen several iterations of the Gaiden game over the generations, and they have the likes to prove interest, with YouTube videos and playing it level by level. Older gameplay renditions are hard to put down because of time and effort. Keeping us playing after dying and having to start over, i.e. rage quitting is as old as time!
Complete with a back cover picture, with the moon rising high as the Gaiden and partner spar for the slice of the blade! Who shall it be cut down in the shimmering pasture? Now wet with the blood of the fallen! The NINJA GAIDEN VIDEO GAME INTRO! Victory?
Grader Notes:
Full Right Back Cover Bend Through Book;
Left Center Back Cover Multiple Crease Breaks Color;
Right Center Front Cover Finger Bends.
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Nintendo Power 6 |
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Nintendo Power 6 Signature |
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CGC |
| Cert #: |
3761509001
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Owner Comments
Scott Campbell! Sketch and Signature!!! On 10/20/20 YEEESSS!!! The Lord gave me the desires of my heart! I sent in for the CGC in-house signing and waited until the last moment so much so that I had to overnight it! It arrived the last day of the deadline, by the skin of my teeth. CGC asked on Facebook if we had any questions for Scott Campbell, I asked one, CGC posted my question accredited to me and Campbell answered it personally in response to me and posted on Facebook! In that video it showed a copy of Nintendo Power #6 signed by Campbell, which may turn out to be my book. It also had a piece of paper covering the book's bottom half, and I got a sketch by Campbell that I only paid for signing! It's a pizza! Slice! I'll take it! Eastman Sketch and Sig as WELL!! With Raphael holding "Campbell's Pizza!" Classics! It was pressed the first time when it received 8.5, now pressed a second time it got a 9.2, oh what it does to my heart to see progress. Here is some Turtle Power in Arcade form too, got to keep those 90's nostalgia in action!
Complete with a back cover picture of light up marquee, by Arcade1up, "TMNT!" A countertop arcade video game that has coinless operation, and with time because of infinite lives, a guaranteed victory could be yours! A bit like a walkthrough of a video game with you at the helm doing the action and living the dream! TURTLES on the NES is the only cartridge that I have left from my childhood days, and it is worth keeping. Arcades are for playing it up right!
Graders Notes Unavailable.
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Nintendo Power 8 |
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Nintendo Power 8 Universal |
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CGC |
| Cert #: |
3788275007
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Owner Comments
Subscription Edition. Duck Tales Cover! Who could get that theme song out of their head? Duck Tales! A-Woo-Hoo! Super Mario Bros. #2 Bonus Tip Book Included. Fester from the Addams Family and Batman Double Sided Poster Included! If you could only imagine the actual Disney products being played on the then "Disney" level consoles of the day. You'd crank up the volume and say, "I'll come for dinner, just let me die 3 more times!" Today's jargon is more like, "Let me get to a save spot!" Today, it is the same and with all the hoopla, I'm surprised that there are not even more Docuseries about it. I know Netflix has had some specials, and it IS special, if only for the time and era. With 80's music sometimes making a comeback, there may be time for other nostalgia, if we can keep it up and running and with some current movement. Duck Tales! The classic Adams Family still comes on, with there also being a "Wednesday" titled show on Netflix starring the daughter in the family!
I'm also keeping the back cover original to this slab, as it shows the "Subscription Edition" label, and what that would look like with an address labeled on the book. That was sent out to homes across the world to keep people "playing with power!"
Grader Notes:
Back Cover Wear;
Front Cover Wear All Corners;
Right Top Back Cover Multiple Crease Breaks Color
Spine Stress Lines.
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Nintendo Power 15 |
| Item: |
Nintendo Power 15 Universal |
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CGC |
| Cert #: |
3732699008
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Owner Comments
Nintendo Power #15! Ninja Gaiden! I have this game on the Nintendo mini system! Not too many of these issues in the 9's and this is a nice addition; although, it is a subscription edition with someone's address on the back label. Make it gameplay and we got a party! These things are hard to pass on now, yet when I see the newest of the new video games and what people are going through to obtain them? It reminds me that in today's world it is "supposed to be" easier access to a realm of media. They have the same hang-ups today with media and entertainment as back then, just in a different vein. Is it right to call the old, "old?" There were hard games of the past that are repackaged and sold today, and some good and fun games, too. Given these Nintendo Powers and how they had a "hotline" at the time, that you could call for tips on things like this Ninja Gaiden! Clearly people put in a lot of work yesterday and today! Preserve it.
Complete with back cover picture of the reader under copy, in nice condition, but still a subscription edition. This back cover picture shows the Ninja Gaiden POSTER, "THE DARK SWORD OF CHAOS!" Still attached and shows the inspired creations that these types of fan magazines had with tips and tricks that checked all the boxes: art, intrigue, tips and pics of gameplay, notes from the editor with fan favorites and all-out exciting nostalgia! I just loved Ninja Gaiden! Owning the game now on the NES mini, it is convenient and easy to pull out the tip guide to use toward completion! "Now you're playing with POWER!" A classic tagline from the commercials.
Graders Notes Unavailable.
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