And – although I wouldn’t have used these terms back then – I lost my shit. And I distinctly remember seeing the preview for Super Mario Bros. While I wasn’t yet a subscriber (as I would become for years after), I did borrow friends’ copies of the magazine and I regularly browsed through the latest issue in the rack at the store. You got codes and maps (both of which were sometimes necessary to complete some of the era’s more frustrating titles), you got reviews and features about the latest titles, and you got a sneak peak of what was to come. While laughed off as a shameless propaganda machine today, back then NP was a go-to resource for Nintendo information. Here’s how you learned about video games “back in my day”: schoolyard chatter, gossip from the game rental store, television commercials and, of course, Nintendo Power. In need of a good, long-winded anecdote, I might tell them about the feverish hype and anticipation that surrounded the American release of Super Mario Bros. ![]() Given how almost everything in my life now revolves around being online, this might prove a challenge. If I have kids someday, I’ll have to explain them about how the world worked before the Internet.
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