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Since this is the closes thing to a Nintendo Forum I decided to post here, if it should go somewhere else, feel free to move it.

Basically, why did you do it?

I did it for the Metroid Prime deal: $60 bucks for the game, strategy guide, memory card, $10 off a Wave Bird Controller. Oh yeah it came with some magazines.

Then I resubscribed for M&L deal: I think it was $30 or $40...anyways it was Mario and Luigi for GBA, Strategy Guide, $10 off GBASP, and the magazine. Not as good as the first deal, but good enough.

So how about you?

I use to love the magazine back when I was younger, I had a subscroption for like 5 years. I signed up again for the Zelda Collector's Disc.....I've really started to dis like the mag now though.

Zelda collector's disk...I work in an afterschool program, so I let the kid's look at it...they like it, so that's pretty good.

yeah, i did it for the Zelda disc; the mag is just crap propaganda for Nin, but i try to give it to kids who just like the pictures.

Won a free subscription through some contest that I forget I even entered.

Originally Posted by organicow yeah, i did it for the Zelda disc; the mag is just crap propaganda for Nin, but i try to give it to kids who just like the pictures.

its not as bad as the propaganda in the Xbox magazine. I only subscribe for the free stuff(like a guide). Plus its got some good walkthroughs for early levels of games

I have an answer no on that list....
kid brother.

I originally did it for the Mario Sunshine deal (similar to the Metroid Prime deal you described). The subscription ran out and then a few months later they offered the Zelda Collector's disk deal, so I jumped on that.

I thumb through it when it comes in, and occasionally there will be something interesting. Plus, during my first subscription they sent me an audio cd of orchestrated Nintendo themes, so that was really cool.

I haven't subscribed yet. I just got my GCN for christmas and I'm waiting for a good deal. Anyone know what deals they might have in the future?

The magazine is not what it used to be. This month I got my last issue and I'm not resubcribing. The magazine (and nintendo itself) is aimed at kids and their dumb parents. There are several ads for card games like yu-gi-o and in the coverage of MGS:TTS, they had said "...you should be able to run out and pick it up-assuming that you're 17 or older, of course." That just pissed me off, that and they waste A LOT of space with GIANT non-game screen images. And why no demo disc? Shame on you Nintendo.

I got it for the Zelda Collector's Disk.

I freaking hate the magazine, though. The letters are so idiotic and dripping with fanboyism that you think it can't get any worse but then you read the editors' replies and you want to kill yourself. I don't use their walkthroughs, I don't need their news since I have the internet, and their two sentence reviews are worthless. When it comes in the mail it literally takes three minutes to read everything I want to read and then it gets thrown onto the pile with the rest of my mags.

Ugh.

i used to have a subscription for many years. it made me think every game was a good one. no, a great one. then one day i woke up and realized that it was a 100 page add.

i resubscribed for the zelda collector's disk, which was totally worth the $20. the magazine, however, is not worth anything. i just got the new issue in the mail today, in fact, and after a quick glance through it, i don't think i will pick it up again unless i have to move it. that being said, i'll still enter the contests, they have some nice grand prizes.

Let's just say I'm repping the Eternal Darkness baseball cap.

Yeah, the magazine is trash. Just a bunch of walkthroughs.

I subscribed for the free Dragon Warrior game....let's see, that was like 1989. The worst part is that I still have just about all of them still around, my first cover was Mega Man 3, good times.

I did join again for the Zelda disk after a hiatus of a few years. If I waited till after Christmas, I could have skipped it but nooo, I thought it would be over by then.

I'm guilty of coming back to this horrible excuse for a magazine just to get the Zelda disc. I did get the first 6 years of the magazine. I even got a five year, 50 issues pin and all sorts of crap. One day I just kinda realized the magazine sucks and threw all of them in the trash. It was a lot of paper. I guess I should have at least recycled them, but I've seen Child's Play 2 and I was afraid their evil spirit might infest paper plates, cardboard boxes and other magazines.

What if I only subscribed because I wanted it? No deals or anything.

Fire Emblem Deal?!?!

Someone please enlighten me!

Originally Posted by GoombaStomper What if I only subscribed because I wanted it? No deals or anything.

Then I pity you.

Originally Posted by st0neface Then I pity you.

As do I, the magazine has really gone downhill.

Can you pay them and get your prize, then have them not send you their crappy magazine?