miketheratguy

Yeah I remember those days. I don't know why they ever went ahead with changing the roman numeral scheme to traditional digits for the third game. Maybe because they knew that it would be so different from, and more or less inferior to, the second one?

Hey guys! Just wondering if you're still planning to go ahead and allow year 2000 issues of EGM now that we've entered the new year.

Ah, an issue of EGM from the early days of Mortal Kombat "III". Good stuff, loving all these EGMs.

I know the feeling. Isn't it weird looking back on them as an adult? I've still got my original 82 issues (with the exception of one or two that got torn up or ruined). Most of them are in crappy condition though, as a kid I did a lot of doodling in them, tore out all the posters and inserts, stuff like that. I'm grateful for a site like this one which allows me to get digital replacements that are far more readable than my own.

Yep, they were printed on less glossy paper that was designed to be removed from the magazine (presumably to take to the arcade). It was really big when Street Fighter II was released, though they did the same thing for Mortal Kombat II as well. Somewhere I still have the pull-out insert for that one, it was a really cool piece that ranked the characters against each other in a tournament setting to determine which ones were the most versatile (Jax and Mileena, for anyone who's curious) and which one provided the biggest risk of losing your quarter (Reptile).

I used to read Nintendo Power religiously. It was my magazine of choice for five years. It began when I got the premiere issue (the one with the clay Super Mario cover) in the mail since I'd been a subscriber to their "Fun Club" newsletter. I couldn't believe how jam-packed the magazine was. It covered The Legend of Zelda, Double Dragon, Gauntlet, the upcoming Super Mario Bros. 2...all classics. It was fun, it was colorful, it had tips and maps and pictures all over the place. It was a wealth of gaming goodness for a young Nintendo fan. Back then the issues only came every two months so it was agonizing to wait weeks and weeks for each new issue, but the day when it finally showed up in the mail brought with it a sense of joy and excitement that made all the waiting worth it. The second issue explored Castlevania II in something like a dozen pages of glory. The fourth issue explored Zelda II. The fifth issue covered Ninja Gaiden. Issue six was about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. By the end of the year we had cover stories about Mega Man 2, Duck Tales and Tetris. This wasn't just an awesome magazine about video games, it was an awesome magazine about arguably the best days of Nintendo. While I got the first issue as part of their free mail-out promotion, the first official issue of the magazine that my subscription provided was March / April 1989, the 5th issue (the Ninja Gaiden one). I would renew my subscription seven more times, sometimes well before re-subscribing was necessary so I could capitalize on awesome deals like the free copy of Dragon Warrior (what an awesome reward for a first year anniversary) and the bonus strategy guides such as the NES Atlas and Super NES guide. Of course the magazine itself continued to be awesome, with the extensive coverage that announced Dragon Warrior's release as well as great new games like Mario 3, Castlevania III, Mega Man 3, Startropics, Maniac Mansion and Final Fantasy. These were awesome days to be a Nintendo fan. By about 1991 or 1992, however, I began to grow out of the magazine. I was in my early teens at this point and started to wince when the covers of the magazine were plastered with cartoony images of Mickey Mouse, Looney Tunes, Lemmings, and Pugsley's Scavenger Hunt. The quality of the magazine was probably still about the same, most of the features that I loved still remained, but my gaming palate was simply expanding. I was playing more "hip" games like Sonic the Hedgehog and Toejam and Earl, and generally just growing past the age when a magazine about video games would fill me with wide-eyed wonder. I still enjoyed them, especially the issues that covered games that I really loved (Mortal Kombat II, Street Fighter 2, Final Fantasy III, Super Metroid, etc.) but I no longer found them to be the indispensable treasure trove of joy to be pored over for an entire lost weekend. The fact that I now owned a Sega Genesis, as well as the fact that the magazine was more "adult", led me to start relying on Electronic Gaming Monthly much more as my magazine of choice. But still, I managed to hang on to my love of Nintendo, and their flagship magazine, all the way until early 1996. The last issue that I remember getting in the mail was number 82, which featured the cutting-edge Super Mario RPG on the cover. It was an appropriate send-off to the magazine that began with the cutting-edge Super Mario Bros. 2, and I made sure to grab the very last issue of the publication that came out around the end of 2012. To this day I'm not interested in collecting all the issues of NP that were ever released. My digital collection stands at those 82 issues that represent such a huge, memorable, and just plain fun part of my childhood.

That's still good, it would still allow me to grab the 2000-era issues that I liked so much.

Since my first File Factory download has been going for literally 90 minutes now, I'll definitely take you up on that. Thank you again!

While Nintendo Power was my magazine of choice between '88 and '92, and while Electronic Gaming Monthly was my favorite mag from basically 93 onward, I definitely had time for some Gamepro. I didn't like Francis Mao's omnipresent art and was always somewhat embarrassed by Gamepro's more kid-friendly tone (Puns. Puns EVERYWHERE), but Gamepro had more in-depth reviews than EGM and I liked their supplemental features like Lab Rat (which reviewed peripherals such as game controllers) and Watch Dog (which was a section where the staff looked into gaming questions and complaints such as faulty equipment or poor customer service, etc). The most memorable time I had reading Gamepro was around 92-94 when Street Fighter was all the rage and the magazine was filled with special move booklets and enthusiastic commentary from Slasher Quan.

Awesome, thank you Kiwi! It will take quite a while to download all of these because they're on FileFactory but I think that it will be worth the wait to get them. Bit by bit, my collection is becoming more complete. Much appreciated!

Thank you so much for the EGM scans Sean697!

If it's worth anything I simply turn the cbr / cbz files into pdfs with a comic book reader converter. Though I suppose if someone preferred being able to have the magazine open to display both pages at a time then a pdf wouldn't serve the same purpose.

I'm very, very happy to hear that. Thank you for donating your issues, and thank you Philly and E-Day for considering changing the dates. I was gone for a while after the Megaupload debacle because I was worried that everything had been lost. Now I see that this site is better than it ever was, and keeps getting better all the time.

I just ran across the October 2000 issue as well so I'm definitely confused. Happy, mind you, but confused. I'd be absolutely thrilled if the cutoff date moved to 2006; that would easily cover every issue of the magazine that I ever wanted to get back in my collection. If this were to happen I'd happily wait until January to start getting excited.

Hey fellas, just had a question for you. I know that the general rule of in-circulation magazines is that nothing from 2000 and onward is allowed. Two things made me curious though: First, I haven't subscribed to EGM in years but didn't the original publication line end in 2009 or so? The other thing is that today, while scouring for back issues, I ran across an issue from February or March of 2000 (I think it was issue 128, with the Driver cover, if that helps). I'm not writing this to call the rules into question or anything, just to understand whether the millennial status of EGM is still permanently off-limits and if that issue I found was an accidental anomaly. I only ask because 2000 (and a bit of 2001) was my favorite year of EGM, and I've spent hours upon hours dredging the net for digital copies but to no avail. This site is really the only place where they'd ever be likely to wind up, if they were allowed, so I was just wondering if I should cross my fingers. Thanks guys, and my sincerest gratitude for all of your efforts on this site.

I only need a handful of issues from this collection, but I'm guessing that's because much of what I've already grabbed from the site came from it. The work put into making this torrent is very, very much appreciated.

Unbelievable. I lost count of how many missing issues I was able to fill thanks to this post. Thank you very much.