So Jeff's article yesterday got me thinking. Specifically, it got me thinking about the fact that I pretty much have every single Nintendo Power magazine from 1998 or '97 or whatever to now somewhere in my home. I grew up readin NP and although I've since pretty much stopped playing Nintendo games completely, I still keep my subscription out of habit, and perhaps even a bit of pining for those days of old when I was huddled around an SNES with my friends playing stupid fucking games no one plays anymore but still say are good even though they actually kinda suck now. 
 
That's not the point though, the point is that gaming and subsequently gaming journalism has changed a lot. Magazines just aren't as viable for news anymore and many have either dropped dead or had to adapt to the world of gaming journalism. A lot of people would say that NP died long before 2000, but I'm not of that mindset. It's certainly not the magazine it used to be though, it's lost a lot of the life that used to make it fun to read. I don't blame the NP staff or Future for that though, they're just trying to adapt in a world that doesn't want or need them. 
 
So what is this blog for? It's a celebration of what was and what is. It's a look back at what gaming journalism was a decade ago as well as the skeletons it's left in the wake of the online age. It's a look at the slow decline of what many once considered the greatest gaming magazine to ever exist; and it's a time capsule to perserve the memories of generation of gamers that grew up reading NP. 
 

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ISSUE 137, OCTOBER 2000	ISSUE 254, MAY 2010