Official Nintendo Magazine July 2009 Issue 44 Grand Slam Tennis Tiger Woods 10 SKU 1516

Original Official Nintendo Magazine – Issue 44, July 2009, published by Future and focused on Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS gaming.

This issue has a strong sports theme, with EA Sports Grand Slam Tennis dominating the front cover alongside coverage of Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10, both highlighting the then-new Wii MotionPlus technology.

Magazine: Official Nintendo Magazine
Issue: 44
Full Date: July 2009
Publisher: Future
Main Platforms: Nintendo Wii / Nintendo DS
SKU: 1516

MAIN COVER FEATURES

The front cover prominently features:

• Grand Slam Tennis
• Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10
• First MotionPlus reviews
• Over 20 summer games
• Donkey Kong Jungle Beat
• Another Code R
• Boom Blox Bash Party
• The Conduit
• Virtua Tennis

The cover artwork shows a tennis player in action on court, with MotionPlus heavily promoted as a major theme of the issue.

WII CONTENT

The contents pages show a broad Wii line-up, including previews and reviews.

Notable previews include:

• DJ Hero
• Dead Space: Extraction
• Drawn to Life 2
• Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers
• SpyBorgs
• Cursed Mountain
• Ju-On: The Grudge
• MySims Agents
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars – Republic Heroes
• Guitar Hero 5
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash-Up
• Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games

Reviews shown include:

• Grand Slam Tennis
• Another Code R
• The Conduit
• Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10
• New Play Control! Donkey Kong: Jungle Beat
• Let’s Tap!
• Rygar: The Battle of Argus
• Virtua Tennis 2009
• Anno: Create A New World
• Dance Dance Revolution: Hottest Party 2
• Night at the Museum 2
• PDC World Championship Darts 2009
• Crystal Defenders R1
• Adventure Island: The Beginning
• Rainbow Islands: Towering Adventure

NINTENDO DS CONTENT

Nintendo DS coverage visible in the magazine includes:

• Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth
• Moon
• Real Football 2009
• Dementium: The Ward
• A Little Bit of Dr Mario
• A Little Bit of Magic Made Fun

FEATURES

The photographed contents pages also show several substantial editorial features, including:

• Meet The Dream Team – behind-the-scenes look at Nintendo game creators
• Drawn From Memory – feature tied to Another Code R
• Mission: Impossible – gaming challenge feature
• Wii fitness/workout coverage
• The Making Of... Broken Sword: The Director’s Cut
• Punch-Out!! game guide
• Zelda: Majora’s Mask game guide
• Nintendo news and industry coverage
• Pokémon Gold/Silver remake information
• Metallica Songisphere competition material

This makes the issue a particularly good snapshot of the Wii and DS period around mid-2009.

CONDITION

Pre-owned condition with visible age and handling wear.

From the supplied photographs:

• front cover remains present and visually strong
• noticeable rubbing and surface marks
• spine shows wear and some creasing
• edges and corners show handling wear
• lower corners have visible knocks / small bends
• some light page waviness and use wear internally
• no major missing internal sections are obvious from the photographed pages
• colours remain strong overall
• magazine has clearly been read and handled

Please inspect all photographs carefully, as they form an important part of the condition description.

ORIGINAL EXTRAS / FREE GIFTS

Any original free gifts, promotional items, discs, stickers, cards, supplements or other extras that may originally have been supplied with this issue are no longer included unless 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 for transit.

UK orders: Sent in a hardback envelope.

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