Editing Club Nintendo (Mexican magazine)

[[File:GbPGtvjWwAAP-xf.jpg|thumb|[[Shigeru Miyamoto]] holding a copy, signed by himself, of the issue no. 1.]]
'''Club Nintendo''', shortened as '''CN''' or '''ClubNin''', was the official magazine of [[Nintendo]] for Mexico and the rest of Latin America. It was created by [[Gustavo "Gus" Rodríguez]] and [[José "Pepe" Sierra]]. Editorial Televisa was its publisher until February 2019, where due to financial problems of the editorial its publication is immediately stopped for those Latin American countries where it was still published (Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Argentina and Chile in monthly physical format), adding to its digital version.

In December 2011 the magazine celebrated its 20th anniversary and in December 2014 they published their last issue in monthly physical format in Mexico.

==History and development==
In 1987, two advertising executives and gamers, Gus Rodriguez and Pepe Sierra, formed an agency called Network Publicidad. In 1988, they acquired a NES along with ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'' and ''[[zeldawiki:The Legend of Zelda|The Legend of Zelda]]'', when these were not very well known in Mexico, and thus began their love for Nintendo and its works.

In 1989, Jorge Nogami, about to open an official Nintendo store in Mexico City, called Gus and Pepe to do some advertising for him. Instead of making ads for radio and newspapers, they decided to publish a bi-weekly newsletter called ''El Mundo de Nintendo'' (Nintendo's World), which contained information about the best-selling titles, tips and tricks. The newsletter started with four pages and two inks, was letter-sized, folded in three and included almost no photos or images since most had to be done by hand.

The newsletter became so popular in the store that it quickly grew to eight pages and three inks, and special editions of some games such as ''Super Mario Bros.'' and ''[[Super Mario Bros. 3]]'' were also made. Some time later, two new members nicknamed Axy and Spot joined the team (contributing with a section called Warp Zones), as were Jesús Medina "Chucho" and Adrián Carbajal "Carqui".

In July 1991, Teruhide Kikuchi, a Japanese executive from {{wp|Itochu}} (formely C. Itoh & Co.), then the official distributor of Nintendo in Mexico, called Network Publicidad and Ediciones Continentales to create a magazine to inform about and promote Nintendo products.

Then they began to work on a prototype to show to Kikuchi, choosing the one made by Network Publicidad since Ediciones Continentales was planning to make a hobby magazine. Thus, the meetings for the magazine's creation began, where some names were proposed for it such as ''El Club de Nintendo'', which was Kikuchi's final choice. Thus, on December 8, 1991, the first issue of the magazine came out under the name ''Club Nintendo''.

During the first years the magazines were stapled together, covers were airbrushed on cardboard four times the original size, pictures of the games were taken with a camera directly from the monitor with the Game Boy's games were photocopied from the screen, other images were hand-drawn and maps were drawn on albaneno paper with a stylograph and colored with markers.

Over time, the magazine underwent several changes in style and format, it began to be bound, more pages were added, new sections began to appear and special editions began to be released. In addition, the magazine organized several parties, meetings, tournaments and attended many events such as the CES, the E3 and the EGS. They also usually give away consoles, games and other items related to Nintendo or the magazine during special events or promotionals posted in the magazine.

It was with the issue of December 2014 (''[[Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS / Wii U]]'' on the cover) that the magazine stopped its monthly publishing for Mexico's market, meanwhile in countries like Chile or Peru continued this format of publishing until its cancellation in February 2019. It was planned an issue for March 2019 with ''[[Yoshi's Crafted World]]'' as the main article but it was canceled too.

With this, the magazine ended with a record of 263 issues and more of 13 special editions.

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