Mato & I were at the Fangamer office having an LoL meeting with Tony today in one of the conference rooms. We got distracted by some complete copies of Japanese Neo Geo games in there, and holy cow these carts are huge!
There was a comic in the instruction manual, too. I saw a CUSS! (But seriously, Mato wanted me to snap this pic for the the “DON” sound effect used for knocking in Japan)
In my work improving the main LoL site, I needed to get a better scan of that weird, creepy cover of that Mario comic for this page. The scanner software had defaulted to “Text” when I opened it up, and I was greeted by the most horrific image of Mario I’ve ever seen:
Not that the color version is nicer to look at, but holy crap.
Aw yeah, baby. We finally got this hot issue of Nintendo Comics System! Thanks to Frank Cifaldi for pointing us to a reputable seller~
I wasn’t lucky enough to grow up with these little comic books. Do y’all have any cool childhood memories of these?
Found this cute little comic strip at the bottom of a Super Mario Kart review in the October 9, 1992 issue of Marukatsu Super Famicom:
