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{{italic title|''Club Nintendo'' (Mexican magazine)}} | {{italic title|''Club Nintendo'' (Mexican magazine)}} | ||
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[[File:Shigeru Miyamoto Club Nintendo (Mexican magazine).jpg|thumb|[[Shigeru Miyamoto]] holding a copy, signed by himself, of the very first issue (1991).]] | [[File:Shigeru Miyamoto Club Nintendo (Mexican magazine).jpg|thumb|[[Shigeru Miyamoto]] holding a copy, signed by himself, of the very first issue (1991).]] | ||
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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. | 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''. | 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<ref>. 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. | 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. | ||
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Club Nintendo Año 01 Nº 01 (Editado).jpg|Cover of year 1, issue no. 1. [[Mario]] landing by parachute on the [[Angel of Independence]] in [[Mexico City]]. | |||
Club Nintendo Año 01 Nº 01 (Editado).jpg|Cover of year 1, issue no. 1. [[Mario]] landing by parachute | |||
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