Nintendo Power- Last Issue

Picked mine up today.



I will have to say that this is one nostalgic issue. Those who are avid fans will thumb through this last issue and cry like crazy. (If you are one, better pick up an extra) If you was going to keep one issue of NP this would be the one. You get a poster with a stamp size cover of 300 issues of (I'm not sure if it is every issue, looks too small) NP which looks cool.
There is a count down, starting with number 285, of NP all time favorite games. Then there is the "Great Moments" in NP starting with 1988 and moving forward. Great stuff here, and the magazine ends with Wii U game reviews. End of an era in video game magazines.
I just wish they would continue with some sort-of digital magazine. I guess they figure, if you have a Wii U or a 3DS then they can send you the content in the form of demos and video.
The face of gaming is changing and this marks the end of an era in "video gaming magazines." Something that used to be part of the experience.

edit: I wanted to use a different term like s-o-b in the place of cry but it kept replacing it with idiot. Go figure. :?

Hmmm it is hard for me to wrap my head around the fact that it has actually been three years since the last issue of Nintendo Power. I used to pick this magazine up. Magazine concerning video games have become a thing of the past for me. I never even think about them any more. At one time it was so much a part of the gaming experience for me. Now I occasionally reminisce about those good times, but I don't really miss it in my current gaming. It seems to me it was a part of that point in gaming history.