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My little goodbye for the final issue of the late, great Nintendo Gamer\/NGamer\/NGC\/N64<\/a>\u00a0was shortened a bit for space reasons. Which means my amazing joke about the R-Type robot on issue 7’s cover was lost to the ages. Until now! Here, I give you the uncut version, and get a little bit sad again about the closure of the mag.<\/p>\n And I meant “space lips”, not “space moustache”. Tsk.<\/p>\n —<\/p>\n Cripes, I’d forgotten that the cover logo once featured the robot from R-Type, of all things. That’s the beauty of being the Editor, readers — you can do what you want!<\/p>\n I miss it, you know.<\/p>\n Helping launch NGamer and steering it through its first couple of years was an absolute honour. Scary, too — how was I going to live up to the legacy of Super Play, N64 and NGC? The answer: cheat. I had the best team and the best readers in the world — so I could basically just sit back and watch 100 pages of peerless magazine magic materialize in front of my eyes every month.<\/p>\n What I loved most were the tiny things that took a preposterous amount of work, like Chrissy wearily photographing all 97 Nintendogs costumes or Matthew trawling through blurry Mario Galaxy preview video for a scoop (and only finding a “space moustache”). That was the special stuff, because it made the mag feel as full of secrets, surprises, love and care as a Nintendo game.<\/p>\n So I’m sad as anything to see it all end. But Nintendo Gamer’s spirit lives on, readers — in your hearts and in your souls! And on your bookshelf if you keep your old copies of the mag, natch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My little goodbye for the final issue of the late, great Nintendo Gamer\/NGamer\/NGC\/N64\u00a0was shortened a bit for space reasons. Which means my amazing joke about the R-Type robot on issue 7’s cover was lost to the ages. Until now! Here, I give you the uncut version, and get a little bit sad again about the… Continue reading Goodbye Nintendo Gamer – director’s cut<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":769,"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions\/769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}