Hacker News Reader

I'm pretty sure that they just took photos of a TV (like a good PVM monitor, not a wood-grain cabinet Zenith), at least in the beginning. There's no doubt that these are photographs of a CRT:

http://www.superluigibros.com/images/media/nintendopower/1_s...

View on HN

Reading that magazine was sometimes almost/more fun than playing the game -- you get all the art and logic without the frustration and sisyphean replay

If you look at the old player guides (the Super Mario World guide comes to mind) you'll actually find a couple mis-pastes where the image was laid out or cut badly before being photographed for the magazine.

It took a fair amount of work to only get pictures of the level's relevant features (and to always crop out the actual player).

Reply on news.ycombinator.com