Hello everyone. I have been going through my Nintendo Power magazines lately, and I figured it would be a fun idea to scan and post everything Pokémon related from one issue each day. Most issues have an ad for the card game at the very least, but some have more content depending on if games were coming out around that time. Personally I love looking at these ads so many years later, seeing something advertised as new that we now call vintage.
I have about 80 issues currently, so this will go until I run out, however I am going to start working on collecting all 285 issues when I’m able to find decent deals, so hopefully that starts happening before 80 days from now! I’ll be posting these in no particular order.
Anyway, here’s day one! This is issue 157, from June 2002. The main thing from this issue is an advertisement for the pokemoncenter.com website, as well as the Pokémon Center in NYC. Bonus image of someone sending in pictures of Pokémon cakes they made, with a Charmander cake labeled Charizard.
From the image it looks like Neo Genesis packs, the Cold Fusion theme deck with Kingdra, sleeves and the Pokemon center playmat. So just a bundle of existing products
Lots of Pokémon things in this issue. For card stuff, there’s an advertisement for Team Magma Vs. Team Aqua. You can flip the ad either way to see it from either team’s perspective. I remember they did a lot of this kind of thing for Ruby and Sapphire. I really like how much they promoted each game’s team for this generation.
This was also around when Pokemon Colosseum came out, so they did a little walkthrough/article of the game. There was also a review for the game, and player submitted teams.
I didn’t have those Pokemon GBA Video cartridges but I did have a Yugioh one and maybe a Spongebob one and boy were they terrible. The quality of the video wasn’t good (to nobody’s surprise) and the audio could only be best described as crunchy.
I actually had this as a poster in my bedroom for the longest time when I was younger. I forgot about it but it’s crazy that seeing an image can bring back those memories
@lightsen may like to see these, since he collects everything related to Team Aqua and Team Magma (although I’m not sure whether he’s still active now that I think about it).
Also, if you come across any Sevipers on posters or magazine covers, no matter how tiny, lmk. Recently bought some posters that featured a Seviper and are currently incoming, which give a very similar vibe as those magazines.
Recently bought some posters that featured a Seviper and are currently incoming, which give a very similar vibe as those magazines.
This is one. Very cool to see these again.