Christmas Eve, and it's time for your gift, /co/. Nintendo Power was a part of my childhood, and as many of you know, it ceases publication this month with Issue #285. So I'm going to dump every Nester comic (except one). Join me, won't you?
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We of course start with the "Howard & Nester" era, which ran from until Issue 25. Howard, for those not knowing, was a caricature of Howard Philips, Nintendo of America's president at the time.
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I should note that despite being a comic, Howard & Nester were considered ADVICE from the magazine, since they usually offered some gameplay tip for a title.
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Starting with Issue #3, the comic was now a two page feature!
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Also, did I say president? I can't remember things for shit today. Howard was a lot of things, but he was no president!
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Wow, that Wiister kid is a dick.
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hnnnggg librarian-tan, you are waifu of all waifus
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Even Nester cannot resist the pull of your attractive dat ass.. oh libriarn-tan you are best waifu ugu~~ ( - 3 -)
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>>44316161 >>44316146 Way to go April showing a stranger the Turtles. Why not just tell everyone!
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TRIVIA: Not an error of the comic nor a trademark thing, Gizmoduck is accidentally called "Roboduck" in the prototype copy of the Ducktales game!
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>>44316210 I KNEW it. I remember Nintendo Power telling me to do Air Man first. Nobody ever believed me.
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The artwork in these comics is awesome! Any chance of it getting collected in paperback form?
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>>44316311 I would have believed you, I too remember that shit. What terrible, terrible advice for someone that would need help with that game.
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>>44316386 It's not without merit. Megaman games tend to have a boss who takes twice the damage from the Buster compared to the others, as a "go here first". For instance, in Megaman 1, it's Cutman.
In Megaman 2, four of the bosses take double damage (or 4 units of health on the USA's "Normal"): Airman, Flashman, Quickman, and Heatman. Since Megaman bosses only have 28 units of health, tackling those guys means you'd only have to hit them 7 times to win, as opposed to say, Metalman's 14.
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Mind the numbering jump. It turns out I just can't count, and managed to skip ten in my file-naming. A herp derp.
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>>44315713 >(except one) May I ask why?
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>>44315966 Dat Moebius-esque hatching.
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The "Mafat Conspiracy" is the second Duke Tolgo game on the NES.
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The Golgo 13 titles on the NES are rather noteworthy because of how much they get away with, considering Nintendo's utter Iron Fist on censoring at the time.
>>44316601 The scans I have of Issue 52 are missing the ONE page that its Nester comic is on.
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Razor is best waifu, dem punkish charms~
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>dem bedroom eyes
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I owned Solar Jetman growing up. Never was a fan of its physics.
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By any chance, who drew these comics out? The style looks relatively Japanese, but this was an American produced comic. Unless they outsourced the art to Japan.
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>>44316923 If memory serves, a lot of NP's stuff was outsourced to Japan. Even the magazine's format, early on, was "Japanese" in style because of this.
While credited, I can't cite which artist SPECIFICALLY worked on Nester.
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>>44316146 I can understand Peter Parker, but Bruce Wayne lives in an apartment?!
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>>44316311 >I KNEW it. I remember Nintendo Power telling me to do Air Man first. Nobody ever believed me. But... Air Man cannot be defeated!!!
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Monopoly. They wasted a comic on this. No words.
>>44317170 Not to sound hipster, but I like their song "No Sleep Until Clear" a little more.
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Stone cold, Howard. Stone cold.
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And so, Howard rides off into the sunset...and no Howard means no more Howard and Nester! Alas!
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....but of course, that isn't the end! Starting with Issue 26, the comic was rebranded as "Nester's Adventures" and marched onward!
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This comic is the first SNES title to be in the comic (one could debate the Star Wars one, but I don't think Super Star Wars was released at the time.)
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Issue 32 brings us another change: Nester's Adventures are now reduced to a single page, making the layout stilted and the writing takes a hit to with it.
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>>44318265 Mostly I bring it up because it sort of nips in the bud certain nostalgic thoughts who thought the comic ended a lot earlier.
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Any chance you can zip these up and put them up somewhere for DL OP?
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>>44318485 Sounds reasonable, not unheard of.
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>>44318514 If you do so, thank you much OP. Happy Holidays bro!
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Tom Preston joke here
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Things are looking up for Bruce ever since he got out of that low rent New York apartment.
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Page missing, due to... page missing.
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And thus... the last Nester's Adventure. But is it truly over?
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>>44319048 If you picked up the latest NP, then you'd know the answer... :(
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Of course not! Ignoring the Virtual Boy title "Nester's Funky Bowling", in Issue 100, Nester returned. Nester's been aging in real time, it seems, and is in college now.
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And in Issue 231, the 20th Anniversary, Ryan "Fishlips" Kinnaird illustrated this two pager.
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Cute, the way it plays up Nester as the dopey dad who won't let go of the past. But... that's a bit too Preston for my taste.
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So with Issue 285, the final Nintendo Power issue, they closed the magazine on this: a two page "Nester and Maxwell" comic.
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>>44319316 It'd help if I actually posted it.
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>>44319249 No, if it was Preston then Nester would be a smug prick who goes on about how superior things were when he was a kid and then his son acts like a retard and proves him right.
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>>44319249 That's his son? They look the same damn age!
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Despite my trip, I didn't subscribe to Nintendo Power much, if at all. The only time I can remember was when I wanted to get the Zelda Collector's Disc for Gamecube, which had the requirement of getting a subscription. But Nintendo Power, it was always -there- when I was a kid. I had friends with subscriptions. I saw back issues at my local library. I flipped through the catalogs, I listened to Smashing Live. Strategy guides at Blockbuster, going to then new concept of a website at
Nintendo.com ....
But Nintendo Power, in all its shilling, campy, corny glory was a constant. With something like that, you sort of take for granted that fact. It's always there, so you don't appreciate it that much. It's not until something is gone that you really get hit with how much it meant to you.
Nintendo Power had a great run. 285 issues, 25 years, that's a long time. That's older than most posters on this board!
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>>44319405 And so, we end the final Nester comic, from the final Nintendo Power comic.
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Goodbye, Nintendo Power. You had a great run.
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>>44319424 I like Howard's Bowtie hung on the wall.
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>>44319449 Thank you, OP. Great Story Time
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>>44316036 >/v/ in a nutshell Nintendo Powanon !/OeRZ2quxw
ZIP FILE TIME
Included in this zip is every image I posted in this thread, right down to my mixxed up numbering system. Also included, as a freebie, is Tom Preston's horrible fanart wherein he has Nester reunite with Howard to complain about them modern games and Link's hair no longer being brown.
http://www.mediafire.com/?61mdtvtneerd7dy As an added christmas bonus, and unrelated entirely to Nintendo Power, I include the zip file to a previous story time I did: The Shogun Warriors Coloring Book, starring Dragun!
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>>44320234 You are awesome, OP
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>>44320234 Thank you OP, you are awesome.
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Why is this not archived yet? Or is it?
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>>44316923 >>44317049 During it's early years, Nintendo Power was assisted by Tokuma Shoten, As a result the mag's design was somewhat influenced by Japanese gaming mags of the time. Lots of visual noise and neat illustrations littered about.
As for the artist It MIGHT be Benimaru Itoh, who worked on the Star Fox comic, the styles are very similar.
>>44320234 Thanks
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>>44329431 >>44329422 >>44329446 But Nester stopped being Nintendo Power's mascot a long, long time ago. Did he even appear post-N64?
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>>44329322 btw, thanks OP, great thread.
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>>44336782 Play and beat To The Earth sometime.
