Flojomojo Posted August 2, 2016 Share Posted August 2, 2016 https://archive.org/details/nintendopower&tab=collection yeah buddy! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silverfleet Posted August 5, 2016 Share Posted August 5, 2016 I was perusing these earlier today. The feels.... Oh, and I found this little gem in the Metroid II issue: Little Jimmy predicted Super Mario Galaxy back in 1991! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted August 6, 2016 Author Share Posted August 6, 2016 Alas, we can only display 16 million colors on our 64-bit computers, even though we can round modern emulators up to pretty much being able to "play any game from any video game system that ever was or ever will be." I went searching for him, and found this http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=329188 Including what seems to be a grown up picture of Jimmy. He was born in 1978 and is kind of a tough looking guy. https://gameblorg.com/tag/glen-cove/ I did not know of this little legend, but it looks like there's some chatter about it online. Cool find! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silverfleet Posted August 6, 2016 Share Posted August 6, 2016 That is crazy. Reading this again, and reading those threads, I realized that Jimmy basically predicted the Nintendo Wii. Can play any game from any system? Virtual Console! All the controllers? There were lots of peripherals. A "chip" that allows you to make games for it? Well, you can insert a SD card loaded with homebrew games into a modded console, so there's that. The "Raw Power" part was wrong, but wow, the other stuff is dead on. Either that, or Nintendo got some great ideas for the Wii from this letter. Crazy. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silverfleet Posted August 8, 2016 Share Posted August 8, 2016 ...And they are gone. Nintendo must have gotten upset. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted August 8, 2016 Author Share Posted August 8, 2016 Dang. I should have grabbed them. Ah well, they're still "out there," you'll just have to venture a little deeper into the seedy underbelly of the Internet to get them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AguyinarRPG Posted August 13, 2016 Share Posted August 13, 2016 I was perusing these earlier today. The feels.... Oh, and I found this little gem in the Metroid II issue: Little Jimmy predicted Super Mario Galaxy back in 1991! Variations on Super Mario "World" were actually quite common back in the day. I saw one early internet post talking about "Super Mario Universe" for a console which lampooned the recently announced Ultra 64. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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