Official Nintendo Magazine December 2008 Issue 36 Professor Layton Curious Village SKU 1516

Original Official Nintendo Magazine – Issue 36, December 2008, published by Future and covering the Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS era.

This issue is led by Professor Layton and the Curious Village, with a distinctive black cover built around Professor Layton’s trademark top hat and puzzle-themed artwork. The cover promotes the first UK review of Nintendo’s brain-teasing DS adventure, making this a particularly collectible issue for Professor Layton and Nintendo DS fans.

Magazine: Official Nintendo Magazine
Issue: 36
Full Date: December 2008
Publisher: Future
Platforms Covered: Nintendo Wii / Nintendo DS
Main Cover Feature: Professor Layton and the Curious Village
SKU: 1516

PROFESSOR LAYTON AND THE CURIOUS VILLAGE

The major Nintendo DS feature in this issue is Professor Layton and the Curious Village, with the contents showing the full review beginning on page 78.

The cover uses imagery associated with the game’s puzzle-filled village setting, including Professor Layton himself, his familiar top hat imagery and small illustrated puzzle/scenery panels.

This was one of the major Nintendo DS puzzle/adventure releases of the period and the issue captures the game at the time of its original UK launch coverage.

NINTENDO DS CONTENT

The photographed contents pages show a strong DS line-up including:

• Professor Layton and the Curious Village
• Pokémon Platinum
• Mario & Luigi 3
• Prince of Persia: The Fallen King
• Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure
• SimAnimals
• Kirby Super Star Ultra
• Colour Cross
• SimCity Creator
• Flower, Sun and Rain
• Unsolved Crimes
• MySims Kingdom
• KORG DS-10 Synthesiser

This gives the issue a very strong late-2008 Nintendo DS focus.

WII COVERAGE

The Wii section is also extensive, with previews and reviews for a wide range of major titles.

Visible Wii previews include:

• Animal Crossing: Let’s Go to the City
• Punch-Out!!
• Another Code R: Gateway of Memory
• Sin & Punishment 2
• Monster Hunter 3
• Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon
• Captain Rainbow
• The Conduit

Visible Wii reviews include:

• Wii Music
• Disaster: Day of Crisis
• FIFA 09 All-Play
• Secret of Mana
• Mushroom Men: Rise of the Fungi
• Trauma Center: New Blood
• Mega Man 9
• Bomberman Blast
• WSC Real 2008 Snooker
• MySims Kingdom
• Earthworm Jim

FEATURES & GUIDES

Other photographed contents include:

• The Rise and Rise of the Wii – retrospective feature looking at Nintendo Wii’s success
• DSi Love You – coverage of Nintendo’s then-new DSi hardware
• The Making Of… Zubo
• Mario Kart Wii guide
• Virtual Console tips
• Nintendo news and release information
• Golden Joystick Awards coverage
• Nintendo community and reader sections

Overall, this is a very representative late-2008 Nintendo issue covering the Wii, Nintendo DS, DSi and a broad range of first- and third-party games.

CONDITION

Pre-owned with substantial visible wear.

Please inspect all supplied photographs carefully, as this copy has clearly been well used and stored.

Visible condition points include:

• heavy wear around the outside edges
• noticeable creasing and bending
• significant wear to the upper outer packaging/backing area
• torn and frayed sections around the top
• worn corners
• scuffing and rubbing to the front cover
• lower-right corner wear and creasing
• edge splitting and small tears
• general surface marks from handling and storage
• internal pages shown remain readable
• some page waviness and handling wear are visible
• the surrounding original backing/packaging material is particularly worn, bent and torn

This should be regarded as a reading / collector copy in well-used condition rather than a high-grade example.

ORIGINAL EXTRAS / FREE GIFTS

Any original free gifts, promotional items, discs, stickers, cards, inserts, supplements or other extras that may originally have been supplied with this magazine are no longer included unless they are specifically shown in the listing photographs.

The sale is for the magazine and only the contents/items actually shown in the photographs.

PACKAGING

The magazine will be packed carefully to help protect it during transit.

UK orders: Sent in a hardback envelope.

International orders: Sent in a cardboard mail-size box for additional protection during the longer journey.