@davillain- Agreed. I loved the Subspace Emissary.

@Gelugon_baat @g_vakarian I don't get it. Classic Mode has been around since the original N64 Smash. So how could it have replaced Adventure Mode, a mode that came after it?

Subspace Emissary is what replaced Melee's Adventure Mode. And nothing replaced the Subspace Emissary in the new Smash. It's just gone now. For better or worse, depending on your feelings for that mode.

The news of Nintendo Power shutting down is easily the saddest gaming news I have come across in a very long time. I have been subscribed to Nintendo Power (without any interruption in my subscription) since issue number 1. And I still have every single issue of the magazine, including number 1.

It has been a part of my life since July of 1988 when I was 8 years old and my Dad surprised me with a subscription to it (he sent in the subscription card that came with my Nintendo Fun Club News magazines that I was already subscribed to).

I still remember the day that I received the first issue. It came in a large black envelope with stars all over it (like deep space), and I had no idea what it was. When I opened it, and saw that huge magazine with the words Nintendo Power on it for the first time, I was both shocked, and in awe at it. It blew away the Nintendo Fun Club News booklets that preceded it, and I had never seen such an extensive magazine that about nothing but videogames. I have been with Nintendo Power ever since, and to see it end now, is just heart breaking.

I even remember being confused as to why the cover for my first issue had Mario in claymation style, when the promos for the magazine in Nintendo Fun Club News showed the first issue cover as 2D art (same scene of Mario jumping over the mushroom with Wart trailing behind him, just drawn in 2D instead of as a clay model). I even had my Mom call Nintendo Power and ask if I received the wrong issue.

As someone who works as an art director on a magazine now, I can only laugh at my younger self for not understanding what a placeholder image is when promoting a magazine that doesn't exist yet.