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Recent USPS Delivery Delays

Hey there, Force fans! Just wanted to drop you all a quick note to address some recent delivery delays with the US Postal Service.

We're nearing the end of January, and some of our US subscribers are still waiting for their copies of Issue #75 to arrive. This is largely because the USPS has been incredibly backlogged in some areas of the country. Around where the NF home office is here i...

Now Live on Kickstarter! Hand-Drawn Game Guides: Mega Man

The third NF Book Kickstarter is now on . . . and already fully funded before I could even jump over to this tab to post this!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nfpublishing/hand-drawn-game-guides-mega-man

It took only 12 minutes for the baseline funding goal ...

New Book! Hand-Drawn Game Guides: Mega Man

Readers of NF Issue #75 got an early look at this announcement, but today's the day we've broadcast the news to the wider online world: We're making a Mega Man book! An officially licensed, partnered-with-Capcom guide to the original Mega Man game!

It's coming to Kickstarter one week from today, on Tuesday, January 14. The preview page is already live, so you can read more and sign up to ...

Issue #75: The Value of Replay – January/February 2025

We're heading into the beginning of NF’s 13th year of publishing!

The release of this issue coincides with the conclusion of a dozen years of Nintendo Force, and 12 years deep we again find ourselves on the verge of another major hardware reveal and release.

. . . But Switch 1 isn’t quite done yet, so we still have some old titles to look back over before charging fully ahead in...

Black Friday is Here!

Happy post-Thanksgiving shopping day, everyone! I first gave all of our patrons here a heads-up about our annual Black Friday Back Issue Bundles sale last week, but since Black Friday has now officially arrived, here's a collective reminder!

Visit nintendoforcemagazine.com/shop to see all of the new bundle...

Issue #74: The Bond Between Brothers – November/December 2024

Scheduling has become a constant struggle.

Who’s going to play first? How long is he going to play? What game is he going to pick, and when he’s done, who will be the next in line? Rinse and repeat the process for every one of the siblings, then pause only long enough to sleep and wake up the next day to the same questions being asked yet again.

As I continuously r...

Last Call for NES Endings Compendium: Volume 2!

Hey again, Nintendo Force patrons! I didn't want to bother you all too much about our newest Kickstarter campaign throughout this past month, but I'm directing your attention toward it one last time today, since we're less than 10 hours away from it ending now!

Here's the campaign link:

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Now Live on Kickstarter! NES Endings Compendium: Volume 2

Our second NF Books Kickstarter campaign is a go!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nfpublishing/nes-endings-compendium-volume-2

Click there to jump over now, check out the video, the campaign page and the pledge tiers, and become one of our first backers help...

New Kickstarter Launching Soon! NES Endings Compendium: Volume 2

Greetings again, Nintendo Force fans!

I hope your Septembers are getting off to a solid start. Print copies of our newest issue should be arriving in most subscribers' mailboxes soon (if they haven't already), but don't freak out if yours hasn't arrived quite yet. The Labor Day weekend always bumps USPS deliveries back by a bit.

When you do get that crisp new copy of NF Issue #73 in...

Issue #73: Leading Ladies 10 Years Later – September/October 2024

Hello, Nintendo Force readers!

When we were doing the planning for this issue, I discovered that not only would this be the 10th anniversary of our Leading Ladies cover story, but it would also be the 10th anniversary of my first contribution to Nintendo Force! (I wrote about the PAX East Pokémon League, which is still going strong, in the Community section.) In the past decade, I...

Posters, Postage, Paper Supply & More, 2024

Our annual update on the state of physical magazine publishing has arrived, and with it our once-a-year look back at our last 12 months' worth of wall posters.

We're coming off of a particularly popular one, as a lot of fans across social media have praised our selection of classic Chrono Trigger promo art that was included alongside our Tribute to Toriyama issue. Even though Marle light...

Issue #72: A Tribute to Toriyama – July/August 2024

My little brother’s always been a better artist than me.

I can knock out a knock-off of Mario easily enough, just off the top of my head, but that’s about the extent of my artistic talents. Dan, on the other hand, can craft original characters out of thin air, with no trouble at all. Give him a piece of paper, a pencil and a general idea of what kind of character he’s aiming for, an...

Poll Responses Needed!

Hey everyone! It seems like there's been a glitch with the email address we normally use to receive submissions to our Player's Poll questions. Only two emails have come through correctly to respond to the questions printed in Issue #71! Could you please take a minute and answer the questions by responding directly to this post here on Patreon? Otherwise Issue #72's Inbox is going to look might...

In Memory of My Father-in-Law

Nintendo Force fans and followers, my apologies if you've been waiting to hear back from me with a response to a question or comment or complaint. I've fallen quite far behind on checking the inbox here, as family life has drawn my attention elsewhere for most of the last month. My father-in-law, David Lundquist, was moved from his nursing home and into hospice care early in May. He passed away...

Issue #71: Just Add Water – May/June 2024

I try not to worry about water.

In fact, thinking back across even my formative years as a Nintendo gamer, I remember actively seeking out water levels more than I do avoiding them. I have clear memories of honestly enjoying the swimming sections in Super Mario Bros., to the point where I’d avoid taking the Warp Zone in World 1-2 to skip to World 4 — because that would mean not gettin...

Issue #70: Peach in the Limelight – March/April 2024

I've always been a Toadstool supporter.

Every since my first time playing Super Mario Bros. 2, all the way back at the end of the '80s when I was only seven years old, I've been cheering her on. She won me over with her incredible hovering long jumps in that adventure, and I'd regularly choose her over the others on the character select screen time and time again. I dabbled with Luigi. I ...

Issue #69: Three Takes on Remakes – January/February 2024

Books don't usually get rewritten. Music is sometimes re-recorded, either by its original artists or by cover bands paying tribute to those originals. Movies getting remade is a fairly frequent occurrence, and has led to things like the film Freaky Friday having four different versions and lots of different spin-offs and homages beyond that . . . but even Hollywood's total count of remakes can'...

Issue #68: The ABCs of RPGs – November/December 2023

The next NF issue is imminent!

Print production has begun, and completed issues will be mailed to print subscribers within the next week. Digital issue download links will be emailed to digital subscribers on Friday, October 27.

Our print production time was scheduled for a little later in the month than usual, so my apologies there – but, to compensate for the few days' worth of ...

The Impact of Iwata: Preorders Now Available!

Preorders for NF's first book, The Impact of Iwata, are now available through BackerKit: https://theimpactofiwata.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders 

It's been exactly two months since our Kickstarter campaign ended! But if you missed it, you can now place a preorder. It's like rewriting his...

Issue #67: Sidescrolling Showdown – September/October 2023

2D, or not 2D? That is the question.

It's been over 30 years now since Nintendo began to transition away from two-dimensional game worlds and started to put more of a spotlight on 3D environments instead. (I look at the original Star Fox, released in 1993, as the game that began that movement.) For a while there -- especially in the back half of the '90s during the age of the N64 -- 2D ga...