Magazines were always the mainstream communication for every news regarding video games before the internet became accessible during the 90’s and in the 2000’s, social media, podcasts and many digital mediums took over.

One of the iconic magazines was a Nintendo specialized magazine called Nintendo Power (nowadays an official Nintendo podcast).

IF you happened to buy some magazines or want to see why it marked a social status back in the day at the gaming scene, we have all give thanks to user Gumball, as he uploaded the digital version OF ALL the 285 issued Nintendo Power magazine.

If you are going to download them all, be sure to have a little more than 40GB of storage space and an ebook reader capable of opening .cbr files.

As per Kotaku, Gumball (with the help of gaming community members including Retromags) is known to be a hard worker regarding gaming memorabilia, specifically in magazines and the old style gaming booklet that game used to include until at least the Playstation 3/Xbox 360/Wii era.

You can verify and download all Nintendo Power magazine files in the Archive.org site here.

Via Kotaku