Nintendo Power Retrospectives: Part 111

We’ve reached the end of Nintendo Power’s 8th year, and with it the 8th Nintendo Power Award winners!

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NextGen #15: March 1996

We’re continuing to get closer to catching up with the Nintendo Power Retrospectives.

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NextGen #14: February 1996

We’re slowly catching up with Nintendo Power (helped by the fact that Next Month’s episode of Nintendo Power Retrospectives is going to be a Also-Ran Episode).

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NextGen #13: January 1996

Once again, I’ve fallen back behind where we are in Nintendo Power Retrospectives, with my recaps in NextGen, so it’s time to play some very slow catchup.

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Nintendo Power Retrospectives: Part 108

Very light issue this time, as this issue is covering a lot of other games that we’ve already covered.

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NextGen #11: November 1995

Almost caught up with where we are in Nintendo Power Magazine.

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NextGen #10: October 1995

We’re a couple issues behind in NextGen where we are in the Nintendo Power Retrospectives, so it’s time to do a little catch-up.

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NextGen Magazine #8 – August 1995

The Sega Saturn is out, and this issue is the first full issue in response to that.

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NextGen #5 (May 1995): Where I Read

It’s been a month, so it’s a good time for another recap of NextGen Magazine. This time, as mentioned in my last recap, I’m going to be skipping over the review section, as the reviews in NextGen over the past 4 issues have been very brief and not very informative – and have not had any names attached to them so I can’t get a vibe for individual critics taste in games.

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NextGen #4 (April 1995): Where I Read

It’s been a while since my last recap of NextGen, mainly because these take a long time to transcribe. Also because they’re kind of long. Still, it’s time to return to this chunk of video game history, and with it take a look at some of the platforms that fell by the wayside.

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Nintendo Power Retrospectives: Part 95

Cropped excerpt of Nintendo Power #72 Cover

This issue has the results of the 7th annual Nintendo Power Awards.

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Nintendo Power Retrospectives: Part 94

This week we have a bunch of movie licensed games and the launch of a major puzzle franchise that continues to this day.

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Nintendo Power Retrospectives: Part 93

We return to our regular episodes with two streetball basketball games – one with NBA stars, one with Looney Tunes characters. If there was only some way to get them to meet…

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[Where I Read] NextGen Magazine #3 – March 1995

Moving right along with NextGen Magazine #3 for March of 1995.

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Nintendo Power Retrospectives: Part 91

Snippet of the cover of Nintendo Power #69 showing X from Mega Man X2.

The Play It Loud era continues with a pair of Kirby titles.

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Nintendo Power Retrospectives: Part 90

Excerpt of the cover of Nintendo Power #69

We return to our regular issues of Nintendo Power with the first issue of the Play It Loud era.

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[Where I Read] NextGen Magazine #2 (Feb, 1995)

I’m continuing with NextGen Magazine with the NextGen #2. With the second issue hitting in February of 1995, it makes keeping track of what year I’m on a lot easier.

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[Where I Read] NextGen Magazine #1

It has been a long time since I did Where I Read for a video game magazine, as much of the work I had been putting into my read through of Nintendo Power has been going into the Nintendo Power Retrospectives, and the second magazine I’d been covering – Electronic Gaming Monthly – has made something of a return. However, with my coverage of Nintendo Power for the show having reached 1995, I feel like I’ve lost some perspective on where the game industry was at this point, so I’ve decided to launch a read-through of another magazine, that is contemporaneous for where we are in gaming in the N.P.R.

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