Took a gamble and won!

Trj22487Trj22487
in Finders Keepers
I was never a big Gamepro reader growing up, I was an EGM person, but I did have two particular issues of Gamepro that I still have to this day, and neither one has the covers anymore. I'm planning on taking out the staples and selecting some of my favorite ads, and getting them laminated for display/book. One in particular though, the only reason I bought it back in the day is because it had a $10 off coupon for Earthbound, which I used. The second half of my coupon is still attached to the magazine.



So I looked on eBay and found there was one copy left of this Gamepro. No details about the inside. I decided to buy it in hopes that the coupon might still be there. I was far more surprised to find not only is it there, but the scratch and sniff tabs have never even been lifted!



For me this was very exciting, alone worth the purchase of the magazine, and something I've been wanting, in particular because I actually used this item back in the day and consider it part of a "complete" Earthbound (more so than the Mach Pizza air freshener)



Comments

  • nintendopower_4_evernintendopower_4_ever
    Nintendo Power had a coupon like this too. I just sold one for $3.92 shipped
  • doner24doner24
    The best part of the old game pros is the page on the left. The old RPG round up columns were awesome! Nice find though, that coupon is pretty cool.
  • EnslavedEnslaved
    I miss GamePro magazine :-( I actually used to read that more than I did Nintendo Power.
  • Trj22487Trj22487

    Originally posted by: nintendopower_4_ever



    Nintendo Power had a coupon like this too. I just sold one for $3.92 shipped



    Nice, didn't know that. 1995 was not a subscription year for me, so I wasn't sure, probably would've been a more common source. Oh well, there were other reasons I wanted this particular Gamepro.


  • Trj22487Trj22487
    This ad actually made me feel a bit scared.



  • TanookiTanooki
    It should AOL should frighten anyone considering what it did to Windows in the day. Very nice finding the ad, I remember it too from my old NP sub as I only canceled it after they sold out to that stupid company as the first issue did it for me with them being other system fanboys. I don't think I ever scratched or sniffed the one I had because I just didn't care about Earthbound until the late 90s when I bought one cheap at a used game shop. I'm surprised you consider the ad more complete than the mach pizza guy for a 'set of earthbound' stuff.
  • Trj22487Trj22487

    Originally posted by: Tanooki

    I'm surprised you consider the ad more complete than the mach pizza guy for a 'set of earthbound' stuff.



    I guess I mean it when thinking logically about what is and isn't attainable. There might actually have been more coupons than actual copies of Earthbound for all I know, so it just seems like the type of thing that everyone with a copy of Earthbound could have, where the pizza man is very scarce, plus you had to mail in your mystery card which I did not even fill out or detatch, but if you entered the contest then you are missing that card.




  • TanookiTanooki
    True enough. Earlier this year a local signed onto the site with that mach pizza dude and the guide. Someone on here I think paid around 300-400 for the pizza man, and I got the guide for $60 off him which was like new other than the one square sticker removed to get that thing. I imagine probably one in ten of those guides got butchered for the pizza man as most people just don't care and it wasn't like Earthbound was JRPG popular in that era as all the love went to Square since Enix pussed out and went home until after the PS1 popped up.
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