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Nintendo Power Issue 166 (March 2003) Issue donated by Benjamin Alldritt.

Compute! Issue 040 (September 1983)

This particular copy was apparently given away at E3 (see the sticker on the cover). It's an interesting mag. The opening editorial claims the mag aims to appeal to adult gamers, and for the most part, I found it an interesting read that did indeed succeed in their stated goal of being better than the typical video game mag aimed at children. The only problem I had with the mag was the review section, which for some reason eschewed written reviews in favor of what was essentially a bunch of screenshots and a score. They must have gotten some negative feedback on this format, since later issues would add written commentary to the reviews. Anyway, check it out!

This issue has the singularly hellish distinction of being comprised of almost nothing BUT two-page spreads. Seriously, about the only pages that aren't spreads are a couple of the advertisements. That said, I've kept the entire mag as single pages this time, since there isn't anything vital that will be disrupted by viewing the pages separately. Nevertheless, you may want to switch to two-page viewing mode from time to time to get a better sense of how the mag was printed (on my reader of choice, CDisplay, you can switch between two-page and single page viewing by hitting CTRL-t and CTRL-s, respectively).