Set Description:
The games we play are on covers portrayed! Nostalgia at its finest.
Nintendo Power! Not to be confused with He-man, the Nintendo gave the power of video gaming at home in la casa! Much needed entertainment, with 8 gigabyte and soon 16 gigabytes, fun.
I am also the one responsible for getting this set added to the registry!
This is a sparce and difficult set to complete, as there are so many issues, that just don't come to market. If you find them, you need them in condition and grade. It'll take a Plumber and a Dinosaur to get the pluck up enough!
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They've got all the media covered, with galore of everything, and arguably rivaling Disney and Sony as movers and shakers.
Play that Nintendo, now you're playing with power!
Now with a bit more volatile type stamina and endurance the market can say Yay or Nay to PLAYING WITH POWER!
Those kinds of conversations were needed to be had between the Golden Age of Video Games, in my opinion or at least Silver, and those Copper Age style magazines with the tips and tricks that kept the market turnover. It is about collecting and nostalgia and none other than those market trends that had our parents stepping and fetching for those gifts. Being in similar situations with those who are now older, it will take a similar precaution when going instead online to order. While not as "limited" in the Copper Age it was much more likely a different kind of demand as well supply distribution. It ended in around 2013-14 when I was hinting at those intentions to find a hobby worth my wile, and subconsciously I was aware of those attractions of times past that would bring me forward to CGC and back to collecting!
Produced and Posted by CGC! J. Scott Campbell answering questions via social media.
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Nintendo Power 1 |
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Nintendo Power 1 Modern |
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CGC |
| Cert #: |
4259157001
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Owner Comments
FREE SAMPLE COPY!! Baseball Round Up poster, Player's Poll & Subscription inserts. The infamous giveaway that took the homes by storm, with subscriptions offered inside: to get in on tips, tricks, and all out gameplays! That can keep a good doctor away, one issue at a time! Yes, even in lowly CGC 2.0, this lowly 1st edition has the goods! With all the hubbub and surrounding ephemera that happened due to this gaming system and the inevitable magazine of tips and tricks, it's got the long-lasting nostalgia that only a Nintendo Entertainment System can offer! Those were the breaks as a kid to stay on top of the game and ahead of the winding curve, that only went upward and beyond. These were the only things we wanted at Christmas, but our heads at the time were still outside, even while inside playing Zelda! We would "Link" our friendships over the years to keep at it, night after night. Those were the late-night phone calls just to see what new room we had unlocked.
 The games we play are on covers portrayed! Nostalgia at its finest.
Complete with a back cover picture of the Zelda and Link game that started it all, with this issue #1 spilling the hearts out to recoup any damage! The fairies were key to filling the heart meter and were in unknown places, but the infinite key was marked by a lion as the master key!
Grader Notes:
writing page(s) 2;
heavy bends to cover;
heavy creasing to cover;
light pieces out to cover;
light scuffing to cover;
light tears to cover;
moderate spine stress lines to cover;
moderate wear to cover.
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Nintendo Power 1 (July-August 1988) |
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Nintendo Power 1 Modern |
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CGC |
| Cert #: |
2018637002
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Owner Comments
Nintendo Power 1st Issue! Brought descriptions and codes with cheats to classic 80's Nintendo products! The hoopla of the decade and modern innovation, it was VIDEO GAMES!! Everyone had to have one for Christmas, and we all saved our lunch money to pay our parents back, because we didn't feel worthy LOL Nintendo today has competition for sure but is surviving and is embracing that epic classic style. Be it side-scroller or just plain old Mario as a jumper, I consider Nintendo the "Disney" of my generation. They call that grandma style. Nothing wrong with the new, we all love video games the world over. I still like to see the "grandma" stick that ollie landing! Many a franchise was started on the Nintendo Platform, and I'm forever grateful. Almost any genre had their hits and tricks, for knocking it out of the park. Problem is, even back then, was the expense and dedication it took. Luckily, there were things like Blockbuster Video where you could rent a game to play over the weekend!
 "Official Nintendo Player's Guide!" Picked up randomly from a bookstore, and can be slabbed, eventually, complete with stickers to become a blue label.
In short, too good and proud of nostalgia for that back cover to replace with something else, looks good on its own!
Grader Notes:
Bottom Back Cover Crease;
Full Left Front Cover Multiple Crease;
Left Center Back Cover Finger Bends;
Right Center Front Cover Small Stain;
Spine Stress Lines;
Top Back Cover Medium Crease Breaks Color.
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Nintendo Power 2 |
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Nintendo Power 2 Modern |
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CGC |
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3781297002
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Owner Comments
Castlevania II: Simon's Quest! Decapitation COVER! Castlevania was the bee's knees on any platform. Gameboy was my first experience with the game, and it is a must have! Nintendo has it on the Nintendo Mini System, which I own and relive playing with such nostalgia!! This issue is "complete" universal label with double-sided poster Castlevania/Bionic Commando. Insider's Calendar Included. NON-SUBSCRIPTION EDITION SO NO ADDRESSES ON LABELS! NICE AND CLEAN LOOKING! Bought from boardie Stormshadow_80. Pleasant surprises are still around for collectors of nostalgia, the years we look back are just as fun to look forward in these current technology days of advancement. This is such a "smart" looking mostly all black cover, front and back! I'm leaving the back cover picture of the actual issue in the slab, because it accurately shows the white box that has no address label printed on it. Issue #1 doesn't have the box for subscription, but most of the issues after do, however and I want to be able to notate as such when found!
 Simon's Quest, Simon says, don't lose your head! 
Back Cover is useful as a tale without an address nor subscription, and that is that, playing with power.
Grader Notes:
Full Right Front Cover Wear;
Left Top Front Cover Crease Breaks Color;
Right Bottom Front Cover Crease Breaks Color;
Right Top Front Cover Crease Breaks Color;
Spine Stress Lines.
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Nintendo Power 3 |
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Nintendo Power 3 Modern |
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CGC |
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3781297003
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Owner Comments
Track and Field!! Captain Nintendo!! These classics were the mascot and the exercise of the 80's. I remember when my parents came home with the exercise foot pad that plugged in, to be able and run faster than the Olympians of the game, and at top speed. Woo-Hoo, bonding with my brother and 'keeping it real' to be in shape. We'd run so hard making all kinds of noise and pretend to be super-heroes! "Blaster-Master" poster. NON-SUBSCRIPTION EDITION SO NO ADDRESSES ON LABELS! NICE AND CLEAN LOOKING! Bought from boardie Stormshadow_80. It ramped up in innovation with the Nintendo Power Glove, which came first, and now the Power Pad. It was Nintendo's tagline to "play with power!" Home computers were becoming popular, but with new cartridge's coming out frequently, the gaming systems meant people could buy a base system and follow up with new stuff all the time. Back when a base computer was used for business came the playful side with games! To be interactive with different ways of pushing a button: controller, joystick, pad, or glove.
 They eventually came out with handhelds, that still had more attachments like a 3-d puzzle. A game light that takes batteries, with even a magnifying glass!
Complete with a back cover picture of the Captain Nintendo Series comic, issue#3, that they speak of on the cover! It was certainly "captivating", as it even had its own cartoon series on television. It makes the whirlwind of innovation to make some Christmases eventful. Today it can be as simple to walk down the street and find the innovating ideas available for sale, but the days of door busters will still be there and will come again!
Grader Notes:
Front Cover Lite Multiple Wear;
Full Left Back Cover Multiple Crease Breaks Color;
Left Top Front Cover Crease Breaks Color;
Right Top Front Cover Crunch Breaks Color.
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Nintendo Power 4 |
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Nintendo Power 4 Modern |
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CGC |
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3781297004
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Owner Comments
Zelda II: Adventures of Link! From 1989, the possible Silver Age of Gaming. NES games and puzzles were all the rage, and there is none mightier than the Link games when it came to interest, replay value, and hours spent trying and failing to discover doorways, hidden tunnels and the next part of the story! Then there was the Skate or Die/Zelda II double sided poster. My friend had the Skate or Die game, and you either had the skills or suffered falls continuously! NON-SUBSCRIPTION EDITION SO NO ADDRESSES ON LABELS! NICE AND CLEAN LOOKING! Bought from boardie Stormshadow_80. Good friends could meet up for comics, video games, and or conventions, and with the surplus of innovations out there, the gambit is wide open for adventure! Get yourself a partner and Dosey Doe, make it a night all to yourselves!
FROM THE OFFICIAL NINTENDO POWER PLAYERS GUIDE!
Complete with a back cover picture, sporting the Zelda II opening that is advertised on the cover of this issue #4, operating on the Mini NES and beckoning the impossible. High places and experience are obtained, after the valley full of testing and swashbuckling. In order to succeed in a town called Hyrule, in a call for action the qualifying will take place! Sometimes the call comes first though, as a set place to obtain the victory! With thy nerve steady and for the glory set before you, bring along the Nintendo Power as you are being sent out to endure and achieve!
Grader Notes:
Back Cover Lite Multiple Wear;
Bottom Front Cover Crease;
Front Cover Lite Multiple Wear;
Full Left Back Cover Multiple Crease Breaks Color;
Right Top Front Cover Crunch.
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Nintendo Power 5 |
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Nintendo Power 5 Universal |
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CGC |
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3788275010
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Owner Comments
Subscription Edition. Well, ended up with someone's shipping label on this issue. I got this and #8 from the same person! Subscription editions aren't all bad, but they need love too. Ninja Gaiden cover, the game that is for sure on the Nintendo mini system, and a Strider Poster included. Strider is on my Arcade1up cabinet that is coinless operated, with infinite lives! Style never dies, it doesn't fade, it is only appreciated in a different way. Sometimes the style is invisible to those who look or are blinded by other ideas, whatever they may be, but classics are classics and for the reason that they were important when created! Market success changed something by being sought after, and these can still be in demand and innovative today, in a different idea or way. I've seen several iterations of the Gaiden game over the generations, and they have the likes to prove interest, with YouTube videos and playing it level by level. Older gameplay renditions are hard to put down because of time and effort. Keeping us playing after dying and having to start over, i.e. rage quitting is as old as time!
 I have an affinity for books, booklets, and cases, slabs, and with a hope for the nostalgia bin dive and find!
Complete with a back cover picture, with the moon rising high as the Gaiden and partner spar for the slice of the blade! Who shall it be cut down in the shimmering pasture? Now wet with the blood of the fallen! The NINJA GAIDEN VIDEO GAME INTRO! Victory?
Grader Notes:
Full Right Back Cover Bend Through Book;
Left Center Back Cover Multiple Crease Breaks Color;
Right Center Front Cover Finger Bends.
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Nintendo Power 6 |
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Nintendo Power 6 Signature |
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CGC |
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3761509001
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Owner Comments
Scott Campbell! Sketch and Signature!!! On 10/20/20 YEEESSS!!! The Lord gave me the desires of my heart! I sent in for the CGC in-house signing and waited until the last moment so much so that I had to overnight it! It arrived the last day of the deadline, by the skin of my teeth. CGC asked on Facebook if we had any questions for Scott Campbell, I asked one, CGC posted my question accredited to me and Campbell answered it personally in response to me and posted on Facebook! In that video it showed a copy of Nintendo Power #6 signed by Campbell, which may turn out to be my book. It also had a piece of paper covering the book's bottom half, and I got a sketch by Campbell that I only paid for signing! It's a pizza! Slice! I'll take it! Eastman Sketch and Sig as WELL!! With Raphael holding "Campbell's Pizza!" Classics! It was pressed the first time when it received 8.5, now pressed a second time it got a 9.2, oh what it does to my heart to see progress. Here is some Turtle Power in Arcade form too, got to keep those 90's nostalgia in action!
 GAME OVER! Light up marquee, by Arcade1up, "TMNT!" A countertop arcade video game that has coinless operation, and with time because of infinite lives, a guaranteed victory could be yours! A bit like a walkthrough of a video game with you at the helm doing the action and living the dream! TURTLES on the NES is the only cartridge that I have left from my childhood days, and it is worth keeping. Arcades are for playing it up right!
Complete with a back cover picture of that first impression then immediately back to the post office in order to catch Eastman in a good mood with CGC form in hand. The mysterious ways!
Graders Notes Unavailable.
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Nintendo Power 8 |
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Nintendo Power 8 Universal |
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CGC |
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3788275007
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Owner Comments
Subscription Edition. Duck Tales Cover! Who could get that theme song out of their head? Duck Tales! A-Woo-Hoo! Super Mario Bros. #2 Bonus Tip Book Included. Fester from the Addams Family and Batman Double Sided Poster Included! If you could only imagine the actual Disney products being played on the then "Disney" level consoles of the day. You'd crank up the volume and say, "I'll come for dinner, just let me die 3 more times!" Today's jargon is more like, "Let me get to a save spot!" Today, it is the same and with all the hoopla, I'm surprised that there are not even more Docuseries about it. I know Netflix has had some specials, and it IS special, if only for the time and era. With 80's music sometimes making a comeback, there may be time for other nostalgia, if we can keep it up and running and with some current movement. Duck Tales! The classic Adams Family still comes on, with there also being a "Wednesday" titled show on Netflix starring the daughter in the family!
 Home consoles and later issues included handhelds, but those "arcades" seemed to start it all!
I'm also keeping the back cover original to this slab, as it shows the "Subscription Edition" label, and what that would look like with an address labeled on the book. That was sent out to homes across the world to keep people "playing with power!"
Grader Notes:
Back Cover Wear;
Front Cover Wear All Corners;
Right Top Back Cover Multiple Crease Breaks Color
Spine Stress Lines.
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Nintendo Power 15 |
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Nintendo Power 15 Universal |
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CGC |
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3732699008
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Owner Comments
Nintendo Power #15! Ninja Gaiden! I have this game on the Nintendo mini system! Not too many of these issues in the 9's and this is a nice addition; although, it is a subscription edition with someone's address on the back label. Make it gameplay and we got a party! These things are hard to pass on now, yet when I see the newest of the new video games and what people are going through to obtain them? It reminds me that in today's world it is "supposed to be" easier access to a realm of media. They have the same hang-ups today with media and entertainment as back then, just in a different vein. Is it right to call the old, "old?" There were hard games of the past that are repackaged and sold today, and some good and fun games, too. Given these Nintendo Powers and how they had a "hotline" at the time, that you could call for tips on things like this Ninja Gaiden! Clearly people put in a lot of work yesterday and today! Preserve it.
 These "games" have now been with us near 50 years and ongoing, with many niches, graded points, and among all media as it is the collectors that are reaching back to preserve all ephemera. Won this in a CGC social media contest!
Complete with back cover picture of the reader under copy, in nice condition, but still a subscription edition. This back cover picture shows the Ninja Gaiden POSTER, "THE DARK SWORD OF CHAOS!" Still attached and shows the inspired creations that these types of fan magazines had with tips and tricks that checked all the boxes: art, intrigue, tips and pics of gameplay, notes from the editor with fan favorites and all-out exciting nostalgia! I just loved Ninja Gaiden! Owning the game now on the NES mini, it is convenient and easy to pull out the tip guide to use toward completion! "Now you're playing with POWER!" A classic tagline from the commercials.
Graders Notes Unavailable.
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Nintendo Power 19 |
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Nintendo Power 19 Universal |
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CGC |
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4688333010
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Owner Comments
Subscription Insert. NES Play Action Football Strategy Guide. Well, I don't know, something of a sports figure of making these and other paths straight, in this narrowed road view of a CGC 9.0? Well, that is something I suppose on the bottom feeder row or rung to be strung up or along for the registry. Not in Drop D but most likely the key of G for some psalms to sing and play the ringing of some bin dives, $7 a piece for a 11-book magazine submission back from CGC! Woo, ta, Hoo, that we may have it so good with those kids' things that bring to mind these times we had put away this type of recreational type of love for ourselves. In scrapbooking, the Sunday paper, the news of new venues and illustrations of demo's, imports, and other type tips and trick scenarios. It isn't as yet an end to these things but a beginning to be carried with us a cross of forbearing and laying it down for the families.
Complete with a back cover picture of those NES games still in the picture of today’s generations. Between what a mod console can offer and those of legal shorthand means, it makes the characters come alive to replay, and all while performing better is, and ever will be, the present goal and or ambition.
Grader Notes:
spine stress lines cover;
light Scuffing cover;
stacking bend back cover;
scratch bottom of back cover.
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Nintendo Power 20 |
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Nintendo Power 20 Modern |
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CGC |
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4688333011
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Owner Comments
Bart Simpson vs. the Space Mutants poster. Player's Poll & Subscription inserts. Mega Man III cover & article. These are the games that took over the living room as a kid and made you play all night in the 80's as the 90's, and for us the millennials, we aren't as well off in the richness pool except for family and nostalgia. It was all about the 1 TV and whether we could occupy it when our parents wanted to enjoy life fulfillment too, but they weren't all negative about it and understood that kids needed their time as play towards building character and temperament. We didn't throw tantrums because the respect we got was enough to be treated as humans with actual humanity and playing outside was always welcome. As well where there we would talk with friends about these said adventures and stay in the frame of the neighborhood without so much as a curfew to be worried or talked into legalities.
Complete with a back cover picture of the Dead Space, between mutants and the Boondocks, "We are at All Saints Day!" Fan Expo Dallas, with Norman Reedus pointing at the Irish cross around my neck in a hoodie and shades, we were brandish but knew how to take it out on ourselves rather than others. May that lesson learned never intimidate others into being afraid of us, as we discipline ourselves for self-control but when then asking these permissions we've expected of ourselves, it is hard for others to then acquiesce or be accepting of ourselves and our friendship leading to many a scary intimidation. Prayers for peace for those we've backed down knowingly or unknowingly, as sin or not. #dontbeabully!
Grader Notes:
stacking bend back cover;
spine stress lines cover;
finger creases cover;
crease right bottom of front cover;
crease right bottom of back cover.
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Nintendo Power 21 |
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Nintendo Power 21 Modern |
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CGC |
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4688333008
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Owner Comments
Metalstorm poster. Player's Poll & Subscription inserts. Star Tropics cover & art. Star Tropics? What can be said for mothers at my house to play an all-daring yo-yo drama and see the codes of tricks being fulfilled in our minds and hearts to answer all riddles and puzzles that to this day are trap doors and secrets untold to our kids. To say that we lived these truths in a playful way is to remember that even our parents enjoyed what seemed our rearing but to their credit they get most of the responsibility and being a good job at all of the above is just, plain, and hard to do! Star Tropics was full of these moralities that guided the hopper and weapon finder through mazes and travail as all trials do with patience to endure all things longsuffering with kindness, culpability and the freedom to choose which turn in the inevitable trial to error it took, but me and mom and brother all beat this game!
Complete with a back cover picture of the prescreen pass to the movie before released to theaters of, "You, Me, & Tuscany!" This is what Star Tropics was to me on the dotted line, a romance novel dripped with eerie salvation and salivating things to discover with family, tutelage, the home life of safety and being willing to go it alone as well with others. Thank God for the youth of this game, and me with siblings and parents just the same.
Grader Notes:
spine stress lines cover;
multiple crease cover;
Scuffing back cover;
finger bends cover.
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Nintendo Power 28 |
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Nintendo Power 28 Modern |
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CGC |
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4688333007
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Owner Comments
"F-Zero" poster. Player's Poll & Subscription inserts. This is the late-night acid trip that was getting rehabilitation from the Nine Inch Nails Mortal Kombat filled Canada Dry evenings of the late 90s and early 2000s. We've all been dry eyed and zombified to the point of driving without thinking about it. There is something to be said for muscle memory, it is when the doubt not by a creator happens that we falter in the guesswork, but rules to gaming are in place along with angelic colored strips of borders to the tracks that are F-Zero. Our bedrooms were watched over with the late night flicker of a TV as we flicked the controller for another zoom, zoom, zoom and a boom-boom around the butted tracks to win the 1st place scenario towards the next stage, the prize called upward, and the wherewithal to know the difference and accept the things we cannot change and the strength to change the things we can!
Complete with what some kids or adults' generations were calling late night study halls within the realms of gaming and relaxing in the ring with the sodas, pops and other wise energy monster drinks, a prescreen pass to the movie before released to theaters of, "The Beast!" Momma doesn't say knock you out, but you're going to anyway at the crash of the next off ramp toward trying to pass that lane of late night, tracks and F-Zero and the caffeine to take the next exit with some turn signals that it was always past our bedtime! Ha-Ha. Those were heavy boxing gloves we hit ourselves with!
Grader Notes:
spine stress lines cover;
multiple crease cover;
finger creases cover.
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Nintendo Power 33 |
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Nintendo Power 33 Modern |
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CGC |
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4688333005
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Owner Comments
"Lemmings" poster. Player's Poll & Subscription inserts. "Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past" comic by Shotaro Ishinomori. Bygone the days of muskrats of Lemming guitar riffs running off the cliff towards flight but they tasted like fried chicken so there is that for scrawny legged leftovers, Mr. Casey Jones. Who forgot who made who with this Deja vu? Well Nintendo Power all the way towards a Bach symphony in wrestling the Ryu's and the Ken dolls from Chun Li. They took us for granted all these evenings and nights spent, we'll we're all just as broke and after it all gets taken as granted anyway for the spill of milky like toasted brains where the games occupied our time and were abundant and we had family and friends. No longer a free meal ticket but paid with your life and should for not being owned, pawned, and your own anyway. Those were the breaks before flying off the laned bridges with games and cranial damage.
Complete with a back cover picture of a photo from the video games Skate or Die. No one listened to this guy so why he went on and on was a Lemming way of anteing the 7-card stud with four aces that kicked the pants just to enforce that these were games we wanted to play, play, play. Lest we beat on the drum all day without love.
Grader Notes:
spine stress lines cover;
finger creases cover;
readers crease front cover;
chews front cover;
paper lift bottom of front cover;
soiling cover.
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Nintendo Power 35 |
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Nintendo Power 35 Modern |
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CGC |
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4688333006
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Owner Comments
"Street Fighter II" poster. Player's Poll & Subscription inserts. "Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past" comic by Shotaro Ishinomori. Well, that's yours all for your Dhalsim and Sagat Tiger Uppercuts, as usual. But who knows maybe this time you'll really enjoy yourselves as self-serving it is and instead of doing wrong, evidently, the first time. It just goes in to show that the actors in real life for as played on TV are just themselves, being themselves and known more worthy than you or me! Be aware yourself, as you stick it to the man, that an M Bison finality is just as a tutorial towards some beta testing for the color transformations of the inevitable Street Fighter two color choices where they let down a net of pick and choose. If you're not even a character or country in the game then don't feel left out, as builds are in the fighting moves but the rocky foundation is of the One who was supposed to be there in every combat situation. It is freelance fighting and those hackers and Shuriken are the possibilities of endless minutes to rhyming hours of putting children to bed.
Complete with a back cover picture! Because it is one for sure. That it is. Well, there you have it!!
Grader Notes:
spine stress lines cover;
multiple indent back cover;
dent top of spine;
multiple crease cover;
piece out bottom of spine.
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