/vr/ - Retro Games

>>7062638
Yeah, it even got a cover on the latin america club nintendo mag.
The localization was going to be weird, as they'd change the title of the game "Dragon Ball" (no Z). USA was still mostly oblivious to Dragon Ball in 1995 or 1996, which is when this game was going to be localized, and in latin america, DBZ was mostly known thanks to importing VHSs from Spain, as the mexican dub of DBZ wouldn't happen until late 97 or 1998, we were still watching OG Dragon Ball (which is why the club nintendo issue explained who all these Z characters were).
However, I live in latin america and I did play Super Butouden 2, in japanese, thanks to piracy. The other Butoden games were also around, as well as the Genesis game. Bless the chinese pirates.

I still own a bunch of them from back then. My first issue was number 3 (Bart Simpson on the cover, from Bart VS The Space Mutants), 1992 or 1993, I don't remember.
It was the first time I ever saw any kind of magazine about video games, so it was shocking and fascinating. I remember a double-page feature with SMW's world map, and tips to get 100 lives in the game. I'd stare at it in awe, as I didn't own a SNES yet.
In defense of the actual written content, it's true that a lot of time the information was wrong, but a lot of times you can tell it's because of things that were out of the editor's knowledge. For example they kept saying KI1 would come out for the Ultra 64, and that the Ultra 64 would come out in 1995. Sure, it was wrong, but that's what Nintendo promised, I don't think it was made up by the Club Nintendo staff. There's probably many occasions where they bullshitted though, and of course, they always tried to make Nintendo seem like everything they did was right since it was the official Nintendo magazine. But browsing through these old mags now, I see a lot of good stuff: "El Control de los Profesionales" was a section with actual cool stuff where they explained actual stuff like how computer coding works, or how sprites could be mirrored, technical stuff like that, in a way that was fairly easy for a kid to understand. Another cool thing is that they had an arcade section where they'd talk about the newest arcade games, even if they had nothing to do with Nintendo. I remember first reading about Darkstalkers on Club Nintendo, despite Darkstalkers never came out on any Nintendo system.
I also always loved the design layout of the magazine, looking at them now you can just feel all the soul coming out of these colorful pages, with nice art work, quality screenshots (well, the first issues had pretty bad screenshots, especially for Game Boy games, but eventually they got devices to capture good ones), and in general it all was pleasant to look at.

>>4772283
>when DB was growing to become a thing, no one believed me when i told them Goku was gonna "dye" his hair yellow till i bought it over way back then).
I have similar memories, I remember learning that Goku was going to have a son thanks to this issue of Club Nintendo. We were still in the King Piccolo saga of DB on TV where I live.

Latin American Club Nintendo for me, especially the earlier issues from the early to mid 90s.
Sure, it was all Nintendo bias and shilling, but the overall design was pretty good quality with lots of official art, maps for guides, etc.
It also included non-nintendo articles for arcade games, thanks to this magazine I first discovered Darkstalkers, which was never on any Nintendo system.
The early issues also included some actually interesting articles about game development that I never bothered to read when I was a kid but when I went back and re-read those magazines as a teen/adult I found them to be quite interesting.

I also have a soft spot for Hobby Consolas (a spanish vidya magazine). That one was huge and had a lot of content, and also introduced me to a lot of animu back in the early 90s when animu was still just Robotech, Mazinger and Astro Boy where I live.

No but I still have a bunch of mags from my childhood