N64 Magazine was a British magazine specialising in the Nintendo 64 console. It is considered the natural successor to Super Play magazine, and retained many of the staff of that magazine, specifically artist Wil Overton, editor James Ashton and Tim Weaver. A collection of magazines A magazine is a periodical publication containing a variety of articles on various subjects. ... The Nintendo 64, commonly called the N64, is Nintendos third home video game console. ... This article is about Super Play the UK video games magazine. ... Wil Overton is a British artist, specialising in manga styles. ...

Later, 'secondary', popular staffers included Jes Bickham (editor for a while - and bald), wild Irishman Dan Geary, the scary Mark Green, the equally scary 'Dr. Kittsy' Martin Kitts Geraint Evans from lovely Swansea, and surfer-dude Paul Edwards. These vivid descriptions cannot be considered libel - as they are written out of respect, trust and honesty. Spread the love...

As of early 2002, NGC Magazine was born (to accommodate GameCube reviews, etc), with many staff and design changes following this. More updates are to come, with Nintendo DS and 'Revolution' starting to take centre stage. Plenty of the mental staff returned... First color of Nintendo DS Electric Blue Nintendo DS, the newest color released in North America New Mew themed DS for Japan The Nintendo DS is a dual-screen portable handheld game console developed and manufactured by Nintendo. ... The Nintendo Revolution as shown at E³ 2005. ...

The current editor is Marcus Hawkins. Humour still featured heavily in many an issue.

Thematic Humour

The many popular, satirical, (and harmless) running gags etc, revolve around:

Nintendo executive and design staff - Shigeru Miyamoto /'Shigsy', (the magazine made continual reference to Shigeru's banjo-playing) Hiroshi Yamauchi (NCL's apparently terrifying President), Satoru Iwata, David Gosen, and Reginald Fils-Aime /'Reggie'. Shigeru Miyamoto with Mario, Luigi, Wario, Yoshi, and Donkey Kong stuffed toys Shigeru Miyamoto (宮本茂 Miyamoto Shigeru, born November 16, 1952) - also known as Shiggy or Shigsy by fans - is the Japanese creator of Donkey Kong, Mario video games, the Legend of Zelda, and Pikmin series for Nintendo. ... Hiroshi Yamauchi (山内 溥 Yamauchi Hiroshi, born November 7, 1927) was the president of Nintendo until 2002. ... NCL may refer to the following: The National Chemical Laboratory of Pune, India The Japanese arm of the videogame giant Nintendo This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Nintendo President, Satoru Iwata Satoru Iwata (岩田 聡 Iwata Satoru, born December 6, 1959 - ) is the current President of Nintendo Company Limited. ... Reggie demonstrating the Nintendo DS at E3 2004 Reginald Fils-Aime, better known as Reggie, is currently the Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Nintendo. ...

Having the readers send in weird things to win stuff: Luigi papier-mache statues, photos of people dressed up as game characters, and pieces of alternative wisdom known as 'Sense Talks'. One famous competition asked readers to send in "tat" of their own in exchange for over £1000's worth of tat from the N64 offices. Among the N64 tat was a life-sized cardboard cut-out of Turok, star of several N64 games, along with two wigs that apparently belonged to Jes Bickham: the caption read "Make no mistake: when you see Jes striding down the street in his size threes wearing these hairpieces, you know he means business". Tat is the Southwestern Indo-Iranian language used by a Jewish people of the Caucasus Mountains and Israel (Judeo-Tat) and a Muslim people in Azerbaijan (Muslim Tat). ... Turok is the name of a fictional comic book character. ... This article needs cleanup. ...

Ruthlessly mocking N64's own staff members: Jes was regularly lampooned due to his bald head (regularly referred to as "the squeaky-headed funster") and physical similarity to René Diffrom the Danish pop band Aqua; Mark Green had an evil alter-ego named Dark Mark; one-time editor Andrea Ball was apparently permanently covered in grease and fake tan, and also had a reputation for carrying a Big Stick™; another former editor, Tim Weaver, was famed for his patented Emotionless Stare; and longtime editor James Ashton was ridiculed mercilessly in the magazine's pages for continually failing to pass his driving test. René Dif in Aquas Around The World video (2000) René Dif was born on the 17 October 1967 in Copenhagen, Denmark. ... Aqua is a Danish pop-dance band which consisted of Lene Grawford Nystr m (born 2 October 1973, T nsberg, Norway), Ren Dif (born 17 October 1967, Copenhagen, Denmark), Claus Norr en (born 5 June 1970, Charlottenlund, Denmark) and S ren Rasted (born 13 June 1969, Blovstr d, Denmark). ...

Random nonsense on popular love/hate-relationship characters: Toad, Luigi(?), Sonic, Yoshi, Kirby, Jango Fett, and Jar-Jar Binks. Genera Ansonia Atelopus Bufo Capensibufo Crepidophryne Dendrophryniscus Didynamipus Frostius Laurentophryne Leptophryne Melanophryniscus Mertensophryne Nectophryne Nectophrynoides Nimbaphrynoides Oreophrynella Osornophryne Pedostibes Pelophryne Peltophryne Pseudobufo Rhamphophryne Werneria Wolterstorffina The true toads are amphibians in the Bufonidae family. ... Luigi is the Italian version of the given name Louis. ... Sonic might refer to: A sonic boom Supersonic and Hypersonic speeds. ... Yoshis current design reduces the size of his neck, resembling the baby Yoshies in Yoshis Story. ... Kirby exhaling, in the first level of Kirbys Adventure, Famicom/NES Kirby (Japanese: カービィ Kābi) is a character in a series of video games published by Nintendo for their video game consoles and handheld video game systems over the years. ... Jango Fett Jango Fett (68 BBY - 22 BBY) is a fictional character from the Star Wars universe. ... Jar Jar Binks (born c. ...

'Bonus Letters' (nonsensical sentences picked out of letters which are not entirely printed). This could also include the titles at the top of fully-printed letters, which took certain amusing words from the body of the letter and printed them in large, bold text to draw the reader's attention: "Bald chum" was one such famous title.

Made-up and ridiculous words such as "blork", "grackler" and "interweb". "Grackler" is particularly infamous; in response to a competition in issue 16 ("send us something you think will scare us witless"), a ghost story was received, part of which read "one nit when i was sleppin a grackler cam" (verbatim). The entire sentence (and later, the word "grackler" alone) became part of N64 tradition, and it was eventually decided that the term should be used as a noun when referring to an exceptionally ugly person. For example, when the football game FIFA '99 was reviewed, a picture reference was made to the extremely horrible texture-mapping on the players' faces, with the caption "Grackle Vision, Gr-Grackle Vision, Grackle-Grackle Vision," in reference to the popular 1990s UK children's TV show "Chuckle Vision". A noun, or noun substantive, is a word or phrase that refers to a person, place, thing, event, substance or quality. ... The striker (wearing red jersey) has run past the defender (in white jersey) and is about to take a shot at the goal, while the goalkeeper positions himself to stop the ball. ... Mega Drive FIFA International Soccer cover The FIFA Series is a popular series of football (soccer) video games, released yearly by EA under the EA Sports label since late 1993. ... // Events and trends The 1990s are generally classified as having moved slightly away from the more conservative 1980s, but keeping the same mind-set. ...

Wil "FuSoYa™" Overton

Wil Overton was the magazine's chief artist and was held in a somewhat reverential light by the magazine's readers; this could possibly have been brought about because some of the magazine's readers had followed Wil from the Good Ship Super Play and felt a sense of loyalty to him, but the N64 staff themselves would more than likely say it was because Wil ensnared them all in the tangled mass of electrical wiring masquerading as hair that he keeps atop his head. Wil came in for much more than his fair share of insults and jokes, but he was a vital part of the reason that N64 Magazine stood out so much on the shelves: his Manga-styled cover art was different to anything on other magazines, and his years of experience, love for RPGs and generally somewhat eccentric nature were comforting for many hardcore gamers. Rurouni Kenshin manga, volume 1 (English version) Manga (漫画) is the Japanese word for comics; outside of Japan, it usually refers specifically to Japanese comics. ...

As a measure of this eccentricity, he was also known by the pseudonym "FuSoYa™". FuSoYa was a wizard character from the game Final Fantasy IV, and Wil, devotee of Final Fantasy that he is, added a ™ symbol to the character's name, and a legend was born: FuSoYa™, Wil's "beardy, RPG-loving alter-ego", as N64 Magazine described him. FuSoYa™ appeared sporadically, sometimes to promote a competition, other times in response to queries in the magazine's letters section; his monstrous visage (actually Wil in a cheap wizard outfit and very unconvincing fake beard) was a comforting sight to many. Artwork by Yoshitaka Amano FuSoYa is a fictional, playable character from the SquareSoft RPG Final Fantasy IV. A resident of the moon, his true origins are unknown. ... Albus Dumbledore, from the Harry Potter series, is one of the most well known traditional literary wizards. ... Final Fantasy IV (FF4) is a RPG developed and published by Square Co. ... Final Fantasy (Japanese: ファイナルファンタジー Fainaru Fantajii) is a popular series of role playing games produced by Square Enix (originally Square Co. ...

The Famed "Bad Reviews"

The magazine's reviews of games found to be (to put it lightly) of a lower standard than usual were adored by readers due to the use of comically savage language to more accurately convey the staff's disgust with a particular game:

• Aero Gauge 64 was ridiculed severely, and a "Top Tip" provided with a quick-reference review in the magazine's "index" section read "If you handed over good money for Aero Gauge, 01*** ****** (number censored for privacy) is the number to ring to complain".
• Carmageddon 64 received a score of 8% (an all-time low for the magazine) and was described as "brain-meltingly awful" and "a shocking travesty": players were instructed to, if they saw the game in the shops, to "take it off the shelves, rip up the box and throw the cart repeatedly at the wall until it breaks";
• Clayfighter 63 1/3 received a score of 24% and was described as being "as painful as... having red hot needles shoved into your eyes"; the Top Tip section revealed that "Breaking the cart open reveals several chips of varying thickness. Stack them together to prop up wobbly chairs, etc."
• Cruis'n USA was described, simply, as "dump".
• Get A Love: Panda Love Unit was the strangest game ever reviewed for N64 Magazine, and as such, a score was impossible to award. The decision reached was ??%, and the review read thusly: "Impenetrable Japanese girlfriend simulator. No, hang on, that came out all wrong..."
• The US import-only Jeopardy! garnered a score of 9% and was described as "less a game, more a vile disease". Apparently "so ugly that, if you look at it, you'll turn to stone".
• Mortal Kombat Mythologies was possibly the most despised game of N64 Magazine's history; "earning" a score of 9%, the price was stated as "£Too much", the mini-review stated that "This could only be less enjoyable if it squirted sulphuric acid into your face," and the staff's frustration with the game's mechanics was revealed in a tip section: "Creep along in that sideways spider fashion and then GET CRUSHED BY A PILLAR. Place your fist into TV screen".
• Rampage 2: Universal Tour was declared an "utterly rancid arcade yawn-fest".
• Trump World (or to give it the full title, "Alice's Waku-Waku Trump World", an unfathomable Alice In Wonderland-themed card game, was deemed "nose-achingly pungent" and "a real Lenny Bennett of a game".
• Another US quiz show port, Wheel Of Fortune was found to be "worse than accidentally falling off a cliff. And surviving".