I’m following up on the first issue of Sega Visions magazine with the first issue of the beloved Nintendo Power. I can still remember when this issue first came out. I would have just been starting the third grade and I could help but be fascinated with the infamous claymation representation of Mario and the Mushroom Kingdom.

The original Super Mario Bros was still filling our little elementary school minds and after flipping through this magazine, we were impressed yet fairly confused about this new Super Mario Bros 2 game. It seemed so different from the original game, but of course, Nintendo Power knew how to spin the remake of Doki Doki Panic into something we would all anticipate like nothing before.

And with an experimental new Nintendo NX console on the horizon along with a live-action Pokemon movie in development, archives like this can provide invaluable context for those looking to explore these properties in their more humble beginnings. Nintendo Power Magazine, through issue #117, is available on Internet Archive. Source: Internet. Since this is the entire collection of Nintendo Power magazine and it is a readable item with issues that are 24 years old, once sold and received we will NOT be issuing a refund as this is NOT intended as a read and return.

In addition to the huge SMB2 preview, there is also a good walkthrough of Zelda and a ton of other Nintendo nostolgia to be found.

Enjoy Issue #1!

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Well before the NES Mini's launch, Nintendo and other companies were already plumbing the nostalgic depths with classic-gaming re-releases, either as boxed items or downloadable software. However, most of these haven't come paired with that era's most common pack-in item: the instruction manual.

Sadly, the NES Mini doesn't come packed with a giant printed instruction manual for its 30 games (which could have affected its $60 price point). But the new, tiny hardware did prompt Nintendo to do something it has rarely ever done: scan and upload full, original-era print manuals as free PDF downloads.

We at Ars are big fans of digital archival in general, but in my case, that applies especially to classic gaming manuals. I pored through my collection of NES instruction booklets on a regular basis in the late '80s and early '90s. If it weren't for the manuals, in fact, I might not have gotten so much gaming access as a kid in that era.

To this day, my mother insists that instruction manuals and gaming magazines were the real reason she let me play so many games. It's a talking point every time I visit home for a holiday—'You and your brother couldn't stop reading those things,' she always says over a meal when the conversation turns to our earlier lives.

I constantly kept a stack of manuals in the bathroom, even for games I'd beaten. The Zelda, Super Mario, and Kid Icarus manuals were written at my reading level, and I loved squinting at each monster description, complete with cartoon illustrations, again and again and again. Nintendo may have had the first major home-system push for visually readable characters in its games, as opposed to tiny dots, but the company's love for illustrations was very appealing to its clear target audience of younger players. I loved how the booklets drew out so many heroes and villains to feed my wild imagination. (Plus, I will admit here and now for the first time publicly: I thought it was so awesome that the Kid Icarus manual had uncensored boobs in it. I still have no idea how that got past Nintendo's crazed censors.)

The booklets also recall the pre-Internet era when games were that much more tactile—when series like Ultima or Zork came with maps, stories, and even scratch-and-sniff inserts. Most game manuals even included 'memo' pages that you could scribble passwords and other notes into. Everything in the box was there to keep you hooked on a $50-80 game for as long as a full year before you got more paper route money (and well before $5-and-less gaming began to dominate).

Whether your first gaming era came with the NES or with older or newer computer and gaming platforms, chances are the instruction manual meant just as much to you. Instruction manuals gave kids something to read and sink their teeth into between gaming sessions. They also helped artistically and thematically fill the blanks that simpler games relied on for years. There's a reason so many of us know the names of Nintendo franchise characters such as King Koopa, Octoroks, and the Eggplant Wizard. Those were printed in the manuals, not within the games themselves.

How to make an adventure map!

The full-color, perfectly reproduced manuals released alongside the NES and Famicom Mini systems bring back that old feeling of discovery much better than the rewritten and reformatted on-screen guides that accompanied previous re-releases on Nintendo's Virtual Console service. As far as we can tell, Nintendo has rarely, if ever, reprinted the booklets directly in the years since their original releases (though the NES Classics line for the Game Boy Advance included printed manuals that resembled the original versions). Zoom h4n specs.

Sure, you could find these manuals (and many more) in massive archives maintained by amateur Internet historians with scanners. But the 30 PDFs attached to the NES Mini's launch appear to be sourced from the publishers' original print files rather than scans of dusty and yellowing paper. These PDFs are crisp. Really, really crisp.

Look no further than the Bubble Bobblemanual PDF, which includes a remarkable reproduction of its full-page comic strip (originally printed with some admittedly thin pen lines). The original NES manuals were notoriously tiny, measuring no larger than 5.25' wide by 4' long, which doesn't give much room to work with for an average consumer scanner. But zooming in on Nintendo's digital versions show a lot of care and digital clean-up work, especially around the edges of text on white pages.

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Many of the manuals (at least, the ones after Nintendo's initial wave of boring black-and-white booklets) included intricate illustrations, and they've been cleaned and preserved pretty remarkably. If you wanted to make your own stickers, shirts, or other print-out products using the cool illustrations from, say, the story-loaded Kid Icarus or Metroid

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booklets, Nintendo has just given you the best raw printing assets for those that have ever existed publicly.

While Nintendo didn't reproduce many of the games' packed-in pamphlets (such as ads for magazines), today's PDFs do include other instructional contents. Final Fantasy's PDF includes the game's massive 80-page manual and a series of map- and monster-filled posters. The original Legend of Zelda comes with a pretty robust set of guides and maps, as well. Nintendo also added a scan of the 'letter from your uncle' that shipped with all copies of Startropics. (You'll have to add the invisible-ink aspect of the original yourself.)

The rarer stuff: Japanese manuals

While NES manuals might not be hard to find on the Internet, scans of Japanese Famicom instructions are harder to come by on the English-speaking Web. That means Westerners have never gotten a better peek into the world of Famicom manuals than today, thanks to the Famicom Mini's 30 original booklets getting their own PDF publications—all with the same attention to reprint detail, no less.

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