Nintendo Power (July 1993)

Nintendo Power (July 1993)

If you were a Nintendo fan it was hard not to appreciate Nintendo Power, Nintendo's official publication. While I don't know that I would trust its impartiality, if there was a Nintendo game you could at least find info about it in Nintendo Power. In 1993 the Super NES was relatively new and the original NES and Game Boy were still going strong. The July 1993 issue includes:

Super NES

• WWF Royal Rumble - A great game for WWF fans. A look at the various characters and moves.


• Run Saber - I never played this one but it's a platform game that reminds me a bit of games like Strider. All the levels are shown here and it appears the game is fairly short.


• E.V.O. Search for Eden - A game from Enix in which you must create creatures that survive the evolutionary process.


• Edutainment - A look at several different educational games broken down by category, including Learning (Mario Is Missing, Miracle Keyboard), Fact Recall (Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?, Where in Time Is Carmen Sandiego?, Jeopardy), Strateg simulation and creativity (SimCity, SimEarth, Aerobiz, and Mario Paint). Not sure some of those are really "educational".

Game Boy

• The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening - The cover story this month is the release of Link's Awakening for the Game Boy. Includes tons of maps.


• Gargoyle's Quest II - Quite similar to the NES version of this game, it reminds me of a cross between Castlevania and Zelda.

NES

• The Addams Family: Pugsley's Scavenger Hunt - An ok platform game. Though the naming convention for these games on the NES vs. the SNES is rather confusing.


• Mighty Final Fight - A beat-em-up for those looking for yet another one on the NES.

_{Table of Contents from the July 1993 issue of Nintendo Power}

Tips from the Pros

• Nester's Adventures - A comic strip but I'm not sure why it's listed under the 'Tips From The Pros' category.


• Classified Information - Secret codes for MechWarrior, Road Runner's Death Valley Rally, Super Bases Loaded, Wayne's World, Cybernator, Prince of Persia, Tiny Toon Adventures, Bases Loaded, Super Conflict, and Mega Man V.

The Info Zone

• Next Issue - Next month's issue features Street Fighter II Turbo, Alien 3, Jurassic Park and Star Trek The Next Generation.

Video Updates

• Now Playing - Brief reviews of new games including Ultima: The False Prophet, Troddlers, Super Turrican, Dungeon Master, WWF Royal Rumble, Run Saber, Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?, Mario Is Missing, Bubsy, Alien 3, Tuff E Nuff, Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends, Super Widget, P.T.O., Mighty Final Fight, The Addams Family: Pugsley's Scavenger Hunt, Bubble Bobble Part II, Gargoyle's Quest II, T2: The Arcade Game, and Star Trek: The Next Generation.


• PAK Watch - Previews of upcoming games including Street Fighter II Turbo, Mortal Kombat, Jurassic Park, TMNT Tournament Fighter, NHL Stanley Cup, Ken Griffey Jr. Major League Baseball, Mega Man X, Wayne's World, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Beauty and the Beast, Felix the Cat, FX Trax, Super Off-Road, Cool Spot, Family Feud, Pinball Dreams, Goof Troop, Super Tecmo Bowl (one of the few sports games I really liked), and more.

Player's Forum

• Player's Pulse - Letters from readers about Super NES button lettering and Mario Paint, envelope art, Simpsons contest winner and more.


• Power Player's Challenge - Player accomplishments in Street Fighter II, Pilotwings, Desert Strike, Wave Race, NES Open Tournament Golf, Top Gear, F-1 Race, Prince of Persia, and Super Mario Kart.


• Player's Poll Contest - A contest in which you can win a game for a week for 50 weeks, 5 Game Boys each with 5 games (not sure why you would need 5 Game Boys), a $500 gift certificate, a party for 50 friends at your local arcade, or 50 pounds of quarters. If you couldn't tell, this was to celebrate the 50th issue of Nintendo Power. Incidentally, 50 pounds of quarters is a much better prize than the $500 gift certificate. According to the internet and my calculations a pound of quarters is about 80 quarters so 50 pounds would be $1000.

Video Updates

• 50th Issue Special - A look back at the last 5 years of Nintendo Power. Includes things like best cover, worst cover, issue with the highest circulation, biggest mistake, worst contest, biggest giveaway, most popular strategy guide, highest power meter rating, and much more.


• Super Power Shop - Buy the first 50 issues of Nintendo Power for $50 plus t-shirts, hats and other stuff.

_{Back cover of the July 1993 issue of Nintendo Power}

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Fauci Claims He Had ‘Nothing to Do’ With School Closures. His Own Statements Suggest Otherwise

The economist John Kenneth Galbraith once quipped, “Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.”

The line comes to mind after watching Dr. Anthony Fauci’s interview with ABC’s Jonathan Karl over the weeknd. In the interview, Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), was asked whether it was a "mistake" for schools to remain shut down for so long during the pandemic.

"I don’t want to use the word ‘mistake,’ Jon, because if I do, it gets taken out of the context that you’re asking me the question on," Fauci explained on Sunday. "We should realize, and have realized, that there will be deleterious collateral consequences when you do something like that."

Fauci is correct that there were serious “deleterious” consequences of school closures. For example, it was recently reported that the class of 2022 saw average ACT scores plummet to the lowest level in more than thirty years, and there’s no reason to believe that younger students didn’t experience similar results. Lost learning is hardly the only “deleterious” consequence, however; the decline of mental health among youths during lockdowns has also been well chronicled.

Some may see Fauci’s response as reasonable, because he’s now acknowledging the collateral damage of these policies. The problem is that Fauci is not actually conceding anything. Nobody—and I mean nobody—ever believed you could shut down schools (and society more broadly) for any meaningful amount of time and not experience some “deleterious” consequences.

But it gets worse. Fauci goes on to claim he had nothing to do with the damaging policy.

“I ask anybody to go back over the number of times that I have said we’ve got to do everything we can to keep the schools open, no one plays that clip,” Fauci told Karl. “They always come back and say, ‘Fauci was responsible for closing schools.’ I had nothing to do [with it].”

6 Times Fauci Argued for School Closures

Fauci may not have sat on a school board or wielded police power during the pandemic, but his claim that he bears no responsibility for school closing takes chutzpah. It’s undeniable that many schools, cities, and state governments shut down schools precisely because of what the White House’s top medical advisor was saying, and what Fauci was saying was clear.

The journalist Jordan Schachtel has a timeline of Fauci’s statements on school reopenings, and it’s worth examining.

3/12/20:

Fauci calls for a nationwide shutdown of schools.

“The one thing I do advise and I said this in multiple hearings and multiple briefings, that right now we have to start implementing both containment and mitigation. And what was done when you close the schools is mitigation.”

4/12/20:

The New York Times, America’s paper of record, reports that Fauci ‘gave his blessing’ to Mayor Bill DeBlasio to shut down the New York City school system.

4/13/20:

Fauci slams Ron DeSantis after the Florida governor announced he wanted to get schools open “as soon as possible.”

“If you have a situation where you don’t have a real good control over an outbreak and you allow children together, they will likely get infected,” Fauci stated.

5/12/20:

Fauci has a testy exchange with Sen. Rand Paul, who argued schools should remain open.

Fauci dismissed the idea that schools should be opened back up fully because “we don’t know everything about the virus.”

CNBC reports: Fauci then turned Paul’s own phrasing on him. “You used the word we should be ‘humble’ about what we don’t know. I think that falls under the fact that we don’t know everything about this virus, and we really had better be very careful, particularly when it comes to children,” Fauci said. “Because the more and more we learn, we’re seeing things about what this virus can do that we didn’t see from the studies in China or in Europe. For example, right now children presenting with Covid-19 who actually have a very strange inflammatory syndrome, very similar to Kawasaki syndrome,” Fauci said.

In August and September, Fauci was singing the same tune. Schools could open for instruction—after the virus was under control.

‘I Didn’t Recommend Locking Anything Down’

Fauci’s about-face did not go unnoticed. Other health researchers questioned his attempt to distance himself from school closures.

“Why is he saying he did not encourage, suggest and recommend lockdown and school closure?” asked Vinay Prasad, a professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco. “Certainly he didn't make the call by himself, but he used the weight of his reputation in science to advocate for these policies… .”

This is not the first time Fauci has attempted to deflect blame for school closures and lockdowns. In a July interview with Newsweek deputy editor Batya Ungar-Sargon, Fauci was asked if he would recommend closing schools again, considering the amount of collateral damage the policies caused.

“First of all, I didn’t recommend locking anything down,” Fauci responded, adding that that was the purview of the CDC.

Fauci was correct that it was the proper purview of the CDC to make specific policy recommendations, not the head of NIAID, whose job was to see that his agency provided sound scientific research to the CDC. Yet this did not seem to stop the doctor from becoming essentially the official spokesman of the federal government’s public health response, conducting literally hundreds of interviews during the pandemic and posing for numerous magazine shoots. (Many public health experts I’ve spoken with say this is precisely why science became so politicized during the pandemic.)

Now that these policies are rightly being criticized for their “deleterious” consequences, Fauci—who grew quite wealthy as a result of all the media attention he received—is claiming he had “nothing to do” with the policies.

Fauci’s claims are almost too hard to believe, but they call to mind a piece of wisdom from economist Thomas Sowell.

“It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong,” Sowell once observed.

The pandemic shows just how right Sowell was.

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Vintage Photos - Oestreicher (1133-1136)

See the previous post in this series here.

I had the opportunity to pick up a huge batch of slides a while back. These pictures span from as early as the late 1940s to as late as the early 1990s. These came to me second hand but the original source was a combination of estate sales and Goodwill. There are many thousands of these slides. I will be scanning some from time to time and posting them here for posterity.

Getting your pictures processed as slides used to be a fairly common thing but it was a phenomenon I missed out on. However, my Grandfather had a few dozen slides from the late 1950s that I acquired after he died. That along with having some negatives I wanted to scan is what prompted me to buy a somewhat decent flatbed scanner that could handle slides and negatives, an Epson V600. It can scan up to four slides at a time with various post-processing options and does a decent enough job.

This set continues a rather large batch of slides that originally came from an estate sale and appear to have belonged to a locally well known photographer (or perhaps a friend or family member) from the Spokane Washington area and later Northern Idaho named Leo Oestreicher. He was known for his portrait and landscape photography and especially for post cards. His career started in the 1930s and he died in 1990. These slides contain a lot of landscape and portrait photos but also a lot of photos from day to day life and various vacations around the world. Here's an article on him from 1997 which is the only info I have found on him: http://www.spokesman.com/stories/1997/jan/04/photos-of-a-lifetime-museum-acquisition-of-leo/

Many of these slides had the date they were processed stamped or printed on them. I've found that in cases where I could verify the date, either because a more specific date was hand written or there was something to specifically date the photo in the photo itself, that this date has typically been the same month the photos were taken. In other words, I expect that in MOST cases these photos were taken relatively near the processing date.

Click the link below to also see versions processed with color restoration and Digital ICE which is a hardware based dust and scratch remover, a feature of the Epson V600 scanner I am using. There are also versions processed with the simpler dust removal option along with color restoration.

All of these appear to have been taken somewhere in South or Central America, probably in the late 1960s. The first picture shows a baby bull while the second shows a bull fight in progress. The next two show a couple of random streets and buildings. There are no specific dates or labels on these so that's as exact as I can get at the moment.

The entire collection that has been scanned and uploaded so far can also be found here.

RUN (June 1988)

RUN (June 1988) RUN was one of the most popular Commodore 64 magazines in the U.S. and the one that I bought the most, mainly because it was what I found on the shelves near me most often. It also covered the Commodore 128 and in earlier days the VIC-20 with perhaps a tiny bit of Commodore 16/Plus 4 coverage. The June 1988 issue includes:
_{Table of Contents from the June 1988 issue of RUN}

Features

• The Latest Word - An overview of the newest word processing software for the Commodore 64/128 including PaperClip III, FontMaster 128, WordPro, GeoWrite Workshop 128, and The Write Stuff.


• Form Writer - A type-in program for the Commodore 64 or 128 that enables you to design and print custom forms.


• Special Delivery - A type-in text/graphics adventure game in which you play the role of a postman who must deliver a letter to a crazy hermit who lives in the woods.

_{Table of Contents from the June 1988 issue of RUN (continued)}

Departments

• RUNning Ruminations - Info about this year's RUN software awards. A ballot is included in this issue.


• Magic - Short programs to automatically indent For-Next loops, creating scrolling characters, hiding your program listings, an updated calendar maker with Julian date added, and more.


• News and New Products - A sign language tutorial for the C64, a Commodore 128 accounting tutorial, Ticket to Washington, The Golf Package, Alien Destruction Set, Mandroid, Masterpiece, Stealth Mission, Logo Probability, Coloring Book Page Maker, Kid Niki, Dark Castle, and more.


• RUN's Reader Choice Awards Ballot - An opportunity for readers to vote on the best software of the year. There are multiple games categories including Arcade Adventures, Arcade, Graphics Adventures, Role-Playing Adventures, Simulations, Sports, Strategy, and more along with a variety of productivity and utility categories from Telecommunications to Databases to Desktop Publishing and much more.


• Software Gallery
• Infiltrator II - An excellent multi-genre sequel which includes elements of role-playing, flight simulator, arcade, strategy and more.
• The Train: Escape to Normandy - A unique action/train simulator game set during World War II.
• High Seas - An action/strategy game in which you command 18th century ships in combat.


• Easy Applications - A type-in program that allows you to recover your BASIC program even if the machine locks up...usually.


• geoWatch - An overview of geoProgrammer, a new assembly language development system for GEOS.

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