@@GTV-Japan yeah, Im still seeing people tweeting or discovering the video, or I have even seen it on FB and seems like in some videogame sites. Thats great, the video is pretty good.
I'm so glad I never got rid of my Club Nintendo magazines and they are in neat condition. There's something about these magazines that will never be matched.
I still have all of the mags I bought through the years, from 2001 to 2014. I would love to have some older issues but they are really hard to find and must be so expensive now. Btw, thanks, GTV Japan, this was a great watch! Just found this channel.
Thanks! Comment on any video you like. I always reply back! I’m learning through comments most readers were into the magazine after 2000! Very interesting as for most every other print source games or not, those were years in decline
@@GTV-Japan I was born in the mid-nineties, so that explains why I started buying the magazine after 2000, haha. I think the reason magazines were still popular in Mexico around these years was because internet wasn't yet such a basic need like it is today, so a lot of people here had magazines as the only source of video game news. A good number of gamers are collectors as well, so I guess many of them didn't miss a single issue. Both facts helped the magazine's sales.
Except in the first two issues where they called the readers “amiguitos” (the diminutive word for “friends” you’d only use when talking to little kids). They were quick to course correct and that infamous word was never uttered in its pages ever again. Sadly the witty language and “talking to you as a friend” demeanor was lost sometime in the 2000s when Gus stepped aside and his cousin Toño took over. Grab any issue from the Gamecube era and beyond and reading its pages feels like reading copy directly written from an advertisement, it was a drastic change and for the worse.
Gus means a lot for us mexicans and for many other latin countries. Many of us are what we are because of what he showed us as kids. Rest in peace, our dear teacher.
The only parallel I can think of is Takahashi Meijin. Everything I read of Gus showed he was universally loved and the ultimate gamer in his country! Thanks for watching
@@GTV-Japan I think...and well, I'd be reluctant to claim this is how every other mexican gamer feels, that Gus was more of everyone's friend and cool uncle/brother, beyond his gaming. Plenty of us knew he also was involved with writing some of the best comedy that a famous mexican comedian made, and with how down to earth Gus was plenty of us felt like treating him more as an equal than as an icon. Of course, we still admired him but...I guess there's a reason he's so close to our hearts even after so many years.
No pude decirlo mejor, justo así me sentí siempre sobre Gus. Un héroe e icono de los gloriosos noventas. ¡Saludos desde alguna peculiar zona de México!
Did you grow up as a fan of Club Nintendo and Gus? Or were you aware of how popular Nintendo was in Latin America? Leave your thoughts and opinions below!
One of the few magazines I ever bought and somehow collected was Club Nintendo, specially one of its most valuable issues to me: it was a collection of artwork of several games, from Mario to Chrono Trigger, from Zelda to Illusion of Gaia, and many, many more. It was pure joy to delve into those pages and to feel like being in so many worlds. To me, that issue was more important than any issue featuring any codes, secrets, passwords, you name it.
I grew up in a very large Hispanic community in New York City I'm half Puerto Rico and half Dominican Republic and my family always have the TV set on one of two Spanish stations and 90% of the time I always watch Nintendo video games ads in Spanish and seeing only me and my younger brother speak English the rest watch us playing Nintendo games and wondering how we are moving "cartoon characters" on screenXD
@@GTV-Japan Yeah it really works, it does weird when you stumble across a lost culture with something you're connected to. Like some sort of alternate dimension you've discovered! I think it's Sweden or Holland that a really interesting connection with Nintendo too, having that Mario on a pole that was all over the internet about 20 years ago.
Yeah I was told about that. Also I’ve learned Nintendo was huge in Germany while Sega wasn’t. At least not so much. Counter to the narrative you always here. Also. Germans love David Hasselhoff.
What a trip down memory lane!! Club Nintendo alongside Nintendomania cemented video games as a serious industry in Mexico!! Gus, we miss you and your work and dedication will never be forgotten. I am proud to be a Nintendomaniaco!! R.I.P.
Language may separate us, but our love for videogames unite everyone of us here, really great video, we'll miss Gus, but his legacy will continue not only in videogames but in all Mexico
I feel like Mexico and its people are sometimes overlooked due to their stereotypes. This mini documentary left me in awe with the quality of such product and people behind it. Let alone the fact it was during the 80s, predating internet services!
Club Nintendo y Gus Rodríguez marcaron un antes y después de la industria de los videojuegos en México, un verdadero legado para los que tuvimos la oportunidad de crecer y vivir en esa época.
En peru veia el programa por cable me daba envidia que la tele mexicana tubieran programas asi y soñaba con tener todas las consolas y juegos gracias gus por todo
Yo recuerdo cuando vi el numero 1 de club Nintendo en un puesto de revistas,lo compre sin dudarlo y fui super fan de esa revista iba a las demostraciones de juegos como Street Fighter II turbo y la de Mortal Kombat en un hotel al sur de la CDMX, conocí a Gus Rodriguez Q.E.P.D el gurú de los video juegos en México super amable, super buenísima onda,pero todo ese favoritismo que le tuve a Nintendo se termino cuando tuve en mis manos la PSX, claro que le tengo mucho cariño a Nintendo y sus consolas NES,GAME BOY Y SUPER NES por que me hicieron pasar ratos muy buenos.
No sólo México amigo acá en mi pequeño país lo veíamos muchos, a pesar de no llegar Nintendo lo teníamos ya que lo traian nuestros familiares de EEUU y Gus con Nintendo manía fue el inicio de muchos Gammer en América Latina, saludos al infinito Maestro Guz Rodríguez...
En México y latinoamerica. La primera vez que encontré la revista fue en julio 2001, no sabia de su existencia pero se convirtió en una especie de aventura ya que tenia que buscarla en diferentes sitios mes tras mes ya que no traía muchas a República Dominicana . Y puedo decir con orgullo que coleccione cada una de ellas hasta que dejaron de venir en físico y aun las tengo conmigo 😁 PD: Encontraron todos los rombos 🤭
You started the train on this one because after you told me about the magazine and Chris houlihan I must have gotten 100 requests for this topic. So without you it might have never happened
Oh, mine was just a random comment. I love your channel and the hard work you put on every video. Thanks a lot for sharing with us incredible information about the things we love!
que tal cesarin felicidades por tu telento una disculpa apenas me vengo enterando de lo que haz hecho y sobre todo que eres mexicano te felicito y doy las gracias por llevar el nombre de mexico en lo alto igual gracias a GTV Japan que buen vidoe acabo de ver llore de recordar al buen gus
Yeah, I agree. I grew up with club Nintendo in Venezuela back in the early 90s and to this day I am still a Nintendo fan. I really miss club Nintendo a Gus. Those were the days.
At this point I’d settle with one tweet from the official Nintendo account, let alone a documentary. As good as this video was it’s not like it was endorsed by Nintendo themselves, sadly.
Mexican here. I remember this magazine when I was 6 and I loved it. The format, the colors, the screenshots and the data on it was awesome. All my admiration to people like Gus that believed that Mexico needed this form of communication and pushed to make it happen.
As a Chilean born in 1983, this brought back so many memories. I still have some of my Club Nintendo magazines lying around, and take some time to re-read them every now and then. Thanks for making this video!
Just saw this. I live in the Dominican Republic and I remember when the magazines that I would by were EGM, Gamepro and Nintendo Power. But one afternoon in late 1992 I discovered a magazine and it was Club Nintendo. I'm so excited as I write this, all the memories but man, when I heard Gus at the end say those words my hairs stood on end. Farewell Gus, may you keep on journeying towards the next castle.
I am blown away. I am not used to seeing this kind of content from English speaking outlets. I was there on the day of Gus' death yelling into the void of social media asking Nintendo and their people to acknowledge Gus' passing to no avail. No one person did more to help build and grow the Nintendo brand in Latinamerica (and especially Mexico) than Gus Rodriguez despite never directly working for Nintendo. And Nintendo of America couldn't even bother to send a press release honoring him. The man was a genius, a visionary, and an amazing approachable person who would give his time to the smallest of podcasts for an interview without questioning. On top of all that he was also a screenwriter and worked for many years alongside one of the, if not THE, most famous comedian to come out of Mexico in history Eugenio Derbez who's now in Hollywood movies all over (most recently in Dora The Explorer). It was in fact Eugenio's Twitter account that broke the news od Gus' passing. The memory of Gus will always be with us but I'm saddened that so few ppl outside of Latin America had ever heard his name and that Nintendo couldn't bother to mentioning him when he died. It's safe to say I wouldn't be the Nintendo fan I am today had it not been for him and his two 90s creations: Club Nintendo and NintendoManía. There's no shortages of Spanish videos talking about the history of CN and Gus so thank you for putting this one in English.
Honestly I hadn’t heard of Gus until late last year. When I went it research I found almost no English information and when I read the Spanish information I realized there was a huge disconnect. At least now this can serve as one tribute that will spread word of Gus, his work and his memory. Thanks for watching
Pero te equivocas, Gus si trabajó directamente para Nintendo. La revista estaba licenciada por la marca, su hijo ha mencionado que si trabajaron directamente para ellos.
@@sausage_and_peppers a ver compa, el hecho que la revista tuviera la licencia de Nintendo no significa que Gus trabajaba directamente para Nintendo. Gus NO pertenecía a la nómina de Nintendo of America ni su sueldo era pagado por ellos. A eso me refiero con “directo”. Trabajaba de manera indirecta porque no era empleado de ellos y su sueldo salía de Network Publicidad, de Televisa y no sé si de TV Azteca o Itochu. Club Nintendo era solo una revista oficial que le pagaba la licencia de la marca a Nintendo. Lo que tú estás insinuando es que si yo vendo botana y consigo la licencia de Disney para venderlas con Mickey Mouse en la bolsa entonces trabajo para Disney? Claro que no y es lo mismo con Gus. Así que no, no me equivoco. Gus nunca fue empleado por Nintendo.
@@AlexRN Eres el clásico nerd sabelotodo que ahuevo quiere tener la razón. Te estoy diciendo que su hijo JAVIER ha mencionado QUE SI TRABAJARON DIRECTAMENTE PARA NINTENDO, Fin de la discusión.
@@sausage_and_peppers liga aquí la prueba de donde lo dijo. Gus Rodríguez jamás fue empleado de Nintendo. Trabajó con la marca pero jamás dentro de la nómina de la compañía. No sé qué más decirte. TV Azteca trabajó con la marca de la NFL per no por eso José Ramón Fernández era empleado de la NFL. Es lo mismo. A menos que tengas pruebas más allá de “me acuerdo q una vez escuché a Javier que dijo X y Y”.
I grew up in mexico and im very happy to see someone give an oral history of something that not too many people know and I wish more people outside of Mexico and Lantin America would get to experience.
As someone fluent in Spanish that grew up in the US, all of this was amazing to see. I could literally pause anywhere and read some gaming history. Thanks GTV and everyone that helped the video come together.
Did anyone else cry watching this video? All those memories reading the magazine, waiting every month to buy it. The memories also to wake up on a Saturday just to watch Nintendomania. Gus we miss you! Thank you for everything.
Dude, thanks for this, I was a loyal follower of Club Nintendo and Nintendomania, I'm still an avid gamer 30 years later, and a big part of it it's thanks to Gus Rodriguez, such a great human being.
When I was a kid growing up in Mexico, my grandma would buy these for me every month; even once I moved to the U.S. and into my high school years. I still have a pile of these and read them every so often. =)
I'm a simple man, I see Gus on the thumbnail and I click. Very well done, it's nice seeing how influential the publication was not just in Mexico, but in latin america. Thanks!
Muchas gracias por realizar este reportaje. La verdad que Gus Rodriguez si marcó a muchos mexicanos en nuestras infancia. Siempre se le recordará con mucho cariño. Y la verdad si me saco una lagrima al escuchar su voz al final, Mi gran Gus: Estamos en contact !!
Reminder: Club Nintendo was the first piece of media in the world in discovering and documenting the Backwards Long Jump stairs glitch in Mario 64, they documented it before internet was a massive thing ( I remember CN even made some sections about how creating your own website during the internet early years). My love for this magazine cannot be described, this video was a very beautiful tribute to Gus and all the CN staff. Reading the old magazines is a magical experience, specially during the N64 and Gamecube eras, where I think they were at their absolute peak. Very well done and documented video sir, got me emotional and all.
A few years ago I had the fortune to meet Gus in a restaurant here in Mexico City, there was a small line of people my age (I was 30 years old at the time) eager to take a picture with him and get an autograph ... he was a very nice guy. kind, educated and caring that anyone could imagine. His work, dedication and passion penetrated very, very deep in an entire generation and left a permanent legacy for the entire Mexican and Latin American gamer world. Gus, we are in contact!
I had a NES in 1986 because my Father who was an Electroincs Engineer, began to build arcades and his connection to bring the pcbs was friend of him, the son of a japanese restaurant owner here in CDMX where my father arranged the light sound system, they become friends, Roberto Miyasaki talked business and began to sell him pcb's for my father to build the arcade cabinet, one time he gave 3 NES as a gift for good business, and one was for me. I remember for me back then the controller so much complicated compared to the atari one, and coin op with one button or two I was used to, and for the NES nobody knew what I was talking about at school until like 1989 when the NES really popularized.
@@Eric_Plunk I was 9 years old when Nintendomania debuted on Saturday mornings so yeah I was right in the middle of that target demographic back then. This man meant so much to me, I even got to meet him in person several times through various events he made around the country. Such an awesome fucking person.
Gus and Pepé were the pillars of the modern latin Nintendo fandom, Club Nintendo and Nintendomania created a lot of dedicated fans, i rember the november of 2008, i went with my grandma to the supermarcket, then i suddenly seen a magazine that interested me, the November 2008 Club Nintendo, with Animal Crossing City Folk in the cover, i begged to my grandma "grandma, buy me that magazine", well, the mission was completed, i read that magazine 100 times everyday, the articles talking about Castlevania Order of Eclessia, Chrono Trigger DS, AC City Folk, Guitar Hero, and other games, i started to buy Club Nintendo every month, but, when i was 11 (2011) i friend of my uncle gifted me 20 Club Nitendo of the 90's, that magazines created my love for retro games. Awesome video dude, it's great to see that somone of the USA knows the history of CN, Gus wold be very happy, a greeting for all that englishpeakers Nintendomaniacos.
As Chilean, club nintendo was a part of my childhood and as an adult i would pick up club nintendo every now and then. I love it. I think 2019 was their last year here in Chile
Fun fact: The voice of the announcer on the Ocarina of Time ad 20:34 is the same voice actor who gives the voice to Piccoro in the mexican dub of Dragon Ball Z.
Great go see this finally released, hope all the fans from Mexico and outside like this, Im glad I was able to help a bit to make this happen, as I told you, many gamers (maníacos) will love it.
@@JuanRamirez-fx3tf pues gracias a todos los que colaboraron y a la edición de GTV Japan, quedó excelente, yo solamente ayudé en juntar y traducir info, y traté de que algunos detalles no se olvidaran.
@@nio107 then excellent job to every one. The video was really detailed, nostalgic. I remember I bought the magazine the first day it as available, then came the tv show. It's so nostalgic to wtch. thank you.
D.E.P Gustavo, as a chilean boy in the 90's I enjoyed your work and still treasure all the volumes of Club Nintendo that came into my hands. For us little gamers who didn't speak english before the internet age, this was the only way to get information on Nintendo games at the time plus it was beautifully written and edited with lots of pictures and colors. Thank you!!
I grew up reading Club Nintendo, it was hard to get that magazine because of being from Guatemala. I still remember Watching Nintendomania at saturday morning. Anyone else remeber the phrase ¿Quién eres? Ahora con 31 años sigo recordando cuando aun ya en la universidad iba a los centros comerciales solo a buscar la revista. Great Video it made me cry in the end.
Club nintendo magazines carried my childhood, we couldn't afford the games but I always had fun reading them and we're a very important part of my life in way, then in 2011 my family was able to finally bought me the dsi you can imagine my excitement. Edit: I'm from costa rica here the distribution was limited back then and the inflation made the games very expensive (even now haha) but I have a job now.
Such a great research work, such an amazing homage to the magazine and the people who helped set the foundations of the videogame industry in Latin America. It also amazes me how this was developed, I'm glad that your research on Chris Houlihan led to the discovery of such an important part of gaming culture for us spanish speakers Thank you so much for this video, you have no idea how much this means to us
Wow, que buen reportaje, es muy raro que en EEUU se le dé visibilidad y crédito a tan buenos productos que no fueron en inglés. El impacto de Gus más allá de méjico es incalculable. Gracias se ganaron un seguidor más.
@@carloscifuentes5944 No te molestes amigo, no sabemos que el lenguaje varía dependiendo la región. Ellos deberían viajar un poco más y convivir con otra gente. Muchas gracias por tus palabras.
Man, this video means a lot. Growing up in Mexico in the 90s, we didn't always get a lot of news about upcoming video games. This was before the Internet was mainstream. Club Nintendo was an absolute must read. I remember being a lil kid and begging my mom to buy me the magazine when it would come out each month. Gus and his TV show was another huge source of joy and hype. I remember begging my parents to take me to Mexico City so I could visit the studio 😆. Good times.
@@GTV-Japan very cool to see Gus get reorganized in an English-speaking video. Totally didn't expect that. Just seems so right for his work to be recognized by the international gaming community. He really had a big impact on gaming in Latin America. A true pioneer. I hope that Nintendo Japan places an honorary plaque or tribute in their offices in Japan. Without Gus, gaming wouldn't have taken off as it did in Latin America.
I actually ended up featured in one of those acknowledged readers back in the early 2000's, and I was ecstasic when it happened. Club Nintendo was a huge part of my childhood and early-to-mid teens. And also those ads really hit me right in the nostalgia feels. Thanks for this showcase! Us Mexicans (and also our Latin American brethren) owe a lot to Club Nintendo for paving the way to gaming to all of us. ¡Estamos en Contact!
Wow no puedo creer que le dedicaran un especial a la revista de club Nintendo power lo dice alguien de México , me llena de orgullo aunque no tuvieramos la elegancia de Nintendo power tenía mucho cariño y esfuerzo.
I'm crying with such an emotion... this is my freaking childhood. Thank you so much! Ah qué chido! Cómo me acuerdo de Club Nintendo, todos sus especiales, siempre buscaba el rombo de la portada! Axy y Spot eran la m***da! Crecí con Club Nintendo y Nintendomanía! Gracias por todo, Gus! Estamos en contact! Y arriba la banda de Guanajuato que ande por acá!
Man! What an unexpected video, as mexican, nintendo fan, club nintendo fan, and admirer of Gus, this video mixed with your talent, is a real Jewel, I love it
AHHHHHHHHH THE NOSTALGIA IS HITTING SO HARD!! I still have some club nintendo magazines here in my shelf. I remember when i was a kid I would BEG my mom to buy me one magazine cause they had this cool posters. unfortunately those cool posters did not last very long :,c. Unfortunatley I never saw an episode of Nintendomania because here in my country it was never broadcasted, however, i have read a lot a about Gus's impact in Latin-American gaming, a true legend.
As a mexican, i greatly appreciated this video, thank you, Gus Rodriguez, was the peak videogame journalist, i don't imagine anyone in modern times being as charismatic and endearing as him, and it was a blessing to have him in my country.
What a beautiful and well-researched tribute to Club Nintendo, great job! Growing up, CN was my favourite magazine and I had to save my allowances to not miss a single issue, I wish I still had my collection! I'd salivate when they'd post pictures of Dragon Ball Z games in Japan that we'd never get. :)
As a HUGE Club Nintendo fan from Colombia (I still have my whole collection from 2002 to 2007) I never heard of Gus' death until today so this video hit extra hard. Him, Pepe, Panteón, Crow, Enrak and all the others that contributed to the magazine in that time will always have a place in my heart. I wholeheartedly thank you for making this video, I'm so glad I found it, this is such a big part of my childhood. RIP Gus and thank you, GTV.
Thanks for watching I’m glad you liked it. Thru comments I’ve learned that there was kind of a separation between areas so news of Gus passing away seems limited to Mexico
That guy was the father we all latino 90's kids wished. I watched his show in Peru in Austral Broadcast (channel 11 in Lima), I didn't own a console but had a lot of fun with Gus and his media (show and magazine). RIP Gus Rodriguez, see you space ranchero!!!
Hey, Thumbs up!! this is great to have this information widespread for other countries that not only Mexicans, as we do, know about Gus Rodriguez's contribution and pioneering on videogame broadcasting and journalism in Mexico. Nice and very interesting narrative about Club Nintendo's story. Please join me in giving a great shout out to Leex, Zeus, Nio and GTV Japan for this work. (PD. It could have been great to have this info at least in brief on the High Score documentary series on Netflix)
Gracias Gus por ser un gran hombre y abrirnos al mundo de Nintendo en Mexico. Ah, y tambien por poner a Maggie en Nintendomania, quien era una de mis crushes en los 90. 💓 Thanks Gus for being a great man and opening us kids in Mexico to the world of Nintendo. And also for having Maggie as a host on Nintendomania, who was one of my 90s crushes.
Im from México and all i have is love and gratittude, this magazine made me realize that when i was younger that im not alone and there is more people like me and i was part of something called community, never treat me like a child, a friend to me, thank you
Club Nintendo and Nintendomanía had an incredibly positive impact in my life. I am 34 and I was just playing some Doom Eternal. I still remember how eager my friend and I were when Ocarina of Time would come out, and we were rushing to the mall to buy the latest Club Nintendo issue. My childhood was awesome thanks in part to Gus and his team.
It's great to see love for video games in all countries. Gus seemed like a very awesome dude with such a passion. I bet he loved his job. May he rest in peace.
Thank you from all of us latinos who grew up with this magazine for giving it some exposure, I loved that magazine anc collected them until their last issue, and thus brings me so many memories.
I'm quite amazed at how MOST comments (way more than 9 outta 10) are from Mexicans and Latin Americans in general Gus was truly THE master gamer in latin america. he basically taught us that it was not only OK to be gamer, geek or nerd, but that it was actually COOL. at the end he helped create a cable network channel "BitMe", which is a channel aimed for gamers, anime, and geek and nerd culture in general.
I got super hyped reading Club Nintendo as a kid. Though by the time I got it, we were already at the N64 and Game Cube era. This brings me awesome memories. I never knew about Gus or the origins of the magazine until now. The fact that they used to hand draw pictures of games to make them look just like the games themselves is beautiful. Truly amazing video.
Grew up in Mexico, and was a monthly subscriber since 2004, fun fact when you took all year long publications, the spines of the magazines made a picture all together, being able to grew up without the hype of the internet and wait till next month on how awesome the DS was capable of, made me realize how great and wonderful is their legacy, and brought excitement and joy to many kids throught all these years, thank you for covering and remembering a great person.
Great video. I grew up with Club Nintendo in Chile, so the whole story really hits close to my heart. Beautiful, simpler times. I still keep some issues of the mag, BTW ... even as a kid they had a big sentimental value to me and I'd read em over and over again.
Man, this is the most nostalgic moment of this year. Great video, I still have all the Club Nintendo magazines in my room . They are some of my most (personally) valued pieces of nintendo collection. And maaaaaan look at those TV commercials, its like being a kid again!!! Thanks for such a good video
Excellent video! I followed the magazine since 94, so this hit close to home. some additional info: * He was extremely close to Shigeru Miyamoto. They first met during the early 90s as in any celebrity-journalist relationship, but immediately related to each other due their shared love for Disney and classic animation, which sparked from miyamoto noticing Gus's Mickey Mouse tie, which he gave to miyamoto as a gift (Miyamoto told him never to give away anything from a collection, and Gus replied it was ok as he had a spare). They often went to dinner together during breaks at conventions and such. One funny anecdote: During an E3, miyamoto noticed Gus among the crowd, and he ran towards him to greet him so fast, that he left his bodyguards confused enough to make them want to tackle Gus! * Somebody in the comments said that puns are appreciated in Spanish and this is true. Puns are really hard to make in such a rigid language so whenever they show up, their comedic impact is heavily multiplied compared to English. * Gus's puns are not only beyond genius, the guy was obsessed with grammar and wordplay, he even released a couple of books with lots of wacky wordplay and jokes, spun off from the character he wrote for TV, whose humor was entirely consisting of wordplay!
Other great history is when Gus fall in a pool by accident in a videogame event hosted by Atomix with Claudio and Gus brake a couple of ribs but he refused to go to the hospital and endure the entire event with pain until the end and even atend the fans and signed a bunch of autographs for all the fans with a big smile 😌
I'm from Colombia and here we all loved Nintendomania and Club Nintendo back in the day. The first number I put my hands on was the #2 issue. It came with a Curso Nintensivo (Nintensive Course) for Little Nemo: The Dream Master from the NES, a friend of mine had a NES console so we rented the Famicom version and had a blast (The game was hard as nails). I have way more childhood stories regarding the magazine. Heck I remember that in 1995 I was at the supermarket in line to checkout, there was an issue that showed the joystick commands for Jago (Killer Instinct), it was expensive for a kid but I told my mother that I truly needed that one, so she bought it for me. A week later I went to the Arcade (Maquinitas) and kicked some ass LOL! Btw, I absolutely love what you did with your logo watermark for this video, very nostalgic... Rest In Power Gus.
Where to begin?, 1991, South east México, after getting my gaming info from Gamepro and EGM for 2 years, I finally found a publication dedicated to, as you perfectly said, to gamers, not kids, and it became part of my adolescent years until I switched to PlayStation in 1997. I’m glad Leex, Nioh and Zeus helped out since they are very knowledgeable of the publication and had the pleasure of working with Gus during his final days on Earth. Thanks to Gus and the publication I learned a little bit of Japanese (they wrote an article about how katakana was used for foreign words), they also taught us with another article the difference of BIT and megabytes, how to interpret binary language and how it translated to the buttons when you pressed forward in Street Fighter 2, there was even a tutorial on how to write HTML before internet was even a thing. I love your work, definitively my favorite is the ‘Look sharp’ episode from Mike Tyson’s Punch Out and the Yume Kōjō Festival documentary, and how your ‘advertising’ breaks are also a big part of the research you do. You are the man and as a Mexican I thank you for your hard work, I have no words of appreciation of the value you provide to the gaming community. May your legacy live forever.
Thanks I’m glad you like what I do! This is a great comment too! I have many to go thru but please know I read every word of this and each other one. Thanks and have a happy Easter
You talking about my whole childhood and teenage years, I had sporadical issues of CN throughout the 90's but from june of 2000 (Excitebike 64 cover) to december of 2007 (Mario Party DS) I have every single issue of CN.
I think I'm a bit older than you because I had sporadic issued from the SNES era (1991-1996) but from the issue about the launch of the N64 (September 1996 with Pilotwings 64 and the N64 in the cover) to around 2003-04 I didn't miss a single issue. I became a subscriber the moment I realized I could be one and waited with bated breath for the next magazine to arrive in that iconic black cellophane paper from Editorial Televisa. I loved being surprised at what was going to be that month's cover front page and would read it cover to cover. I especially love the Dr. Mario section and reading all those reader questions which many times were the same ones I had.
Acá en Costa Rica se vivió de una forma muy parecida. Yo siempre deseaba a que llegara el nuevo mes para conseguir un nuevo número de la revista! Muchísimas gracias a Gus y a Pepe. Gracias a Zeus y a Leex también!
I still have all of mine! I went to the store every month to look for it. So many good memories. I could only get one or maybe two games a year during my childhood and adolescence and would base them squarely from what they said in this magazine. It made me the nintendo fan I am today.
You're a Big one, Gustavo. Your magazine left such a Big legacy it Even trascended frontiers and now foreign people knows them. Saludos desde México, Amigos de GTV
As a mexican who grew up with the magazine and the tv show. I feel so excited to see recognition from outside Mexico, and I feel so happy just to know that the name of Gus Rodriguez reaches new places. Thank you GTV
Terrific job, guys. You gave this magazine the place it deserves. Just loved it. Gus was the most influential videogames-wise guy of the time, but not only that, he was a great guy! I've heard some amazing stories from people who had the luck to met him. misspelled Fun Fact 2: The guy that does the voice-over for most of the Nintendo Commercials is the one that dubs Piccolo from the Dragon Ball Series (Carlos Segundo)
Thank you so much for this video, I was born in '86, I had a SNES, and Nintendomania, club Nintendo and Gus were a huge part of my childhood. I remember going to the newspaper stand every 1st day of the month and kept going everyday looking for Club Nintendo, it was so important for me to buy it. I also remember saturday mornings waiting for Nintendomania to start on TV, it was the best moment of every weekend; a certain saturday a high profile mexican politician died and the TV network canceled Nintendomania just to cover the death of that guy, I was so pissed!!! Anyway thanks so much for this trip down memory lane, you just made this random mexican gamer happy, thanks so much!
This hit me like a ton of bricks! I'm seriously crying. This magazine was my thing as a kid. Not only it introduced me to gaming, but above all, this magazine was my gateway into anime back when I was twelve through its dedicated japan section. I have like a hundred issues of it, mostly from the wii u era. Thinking about it, I was the last generation that got to grow up with it. That's very sad, but I'm very grateful for what it was. The first issue I got was the one on Super Mario Galaxy 2. I also have the Sonic 20th anniversary issue, and the special Zelda Skyward Sword issue that marked the 25th anniversary for the magazine. Another cool thing about it, is that at least in the modern issues, the spines of the magazine formed an image when displayed together, with a different image every year. I have all 12 2014 issues with Sticker Star on the spine! Another thing to note is that they always answered your questions, even when they didn't make it into the magazine, no matter how stupid they were (I was a little kid lol). Good times, good times.
Thanks for this wonderful comment! I had no idea they wrote everyone back even if you didn’t make the magazine. Nintendo Power never did that! At least with me
First of all, I'm sad to find out that Gustavo passed away last year. I was a big fan of the NES back in the late 80s and early 90s. I vividly remember both Club Nintendo (even the first issue) and Nintendo Mania, which I loved to watch on Saturday mornings on Canal 13. It was through Nintendo Mania that I heard about the then upcoming N64. His enthusiasm and top notch coverage about everything related to Nintendo was phenomenal. This video was such a nice trip through Memory Lane. Rest in Peace, Gustavo.
I definitely remember the big impact that Nintendo had on Mexico. I’m half Mexican and I’m from El Paso, Tx which shares a border with Ciudad Juarez. Nintendo was everywhere. When the NES was in its heyday, I remember people coming from Mexico to shop at our local walmart (which was very common) to buy Nintendos during Christmas time. I don’t personally remember seeing an arcade in Juarez, but I remember they had these shops where you could pay to play Super Nintendos or Sega Genesis’s at these little kiosks for a period of time. Great video! I was aware of Gus, but I never really watched his show or anything. My Spanish is very poor compared to my parents, and I read all the English publications instead.
Este video me dejó un sabor bien agridulce, por un lado recordar tiempos muy felices en Venezuela cuando acompañaba a mi mamá al supermercado y correr como loco a buscar mi club nintendo y por otro lado enterarme que el gran Gus nos dejó en 2020. Un abrazo a todos los que vivimos esa época tan bonita (aún tengo mi gran colección intacta esperándome en mi país :D)
Glad to know there are gamers like Gus that helped to set the basis and strengthen that great industry of video games which we all love nowadays. Great video.
Going to buy the Club Nintendo magazine every month was one of my foundest childhood memories. Same for the show, I loved watching it every Saturday morning. I actually had no idea Gus was one of the people that started the magazine. Great video.
Thanks for doing this video and give some recognition to the mexican gaming culture, the name of Gus Rodriguez is a legend here in the gaming comunity, and I had good times seeing him on TV when I was a little kid, and reading Club Nintendo at age 11
I had like 5 years in a row of those magazines, first going to buy them one by one month to month then begging my mom to subscribe to the magazine so they could mail it to you and get a little discount, good memories bro.
Hey! That's me, several years ago @25:49!!!
Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!
Que chingón.
No way! Awesome
@@GTV-Japan yeah, Im still seeing people tweeting or discovering the video, or I have even seen it on FB and seems like in some videogame sites.
Thats great, the video is pretty good.
Suertudote!
@@GTV-Japan It was (and still is) awesome!!!
=)
I'm not crying, you are crying!
Wherever you are, Gus, estamos en contact.
His legacy will live forever. Thanks for watching
Estamos en contact!
Estamos en contact
Estamos en Contact!!!!
Estamos en contact
I'm so glad I never got rid of my Club Nintendo magazines and they are in neat condition. There's something about these magazines that will never be matched.
That’s great! A few people have said the same. It’s great to see people preserving them for their memories and posterity. Thanks for watching
I'm so jealous! Felicidades bro, sigue cuidándo tu colección!
I still have all of the mags I bought through the years, from 2001 to 2014. I would love to have some older issues but they are really hard to find and must be so expensive now.
Btw, thanks, GTV Japan, this was a great watch! Just found this channel.
Thanks! Comment on any video you like. I always reply back! I’m learning through comments most readers were into the magazine after 2000! Very interesting as for most every other print source games or not, those were years in decline
@@GTV-Japan I was born in the mid-nineties, so that explains why I started buying the magazine after 2000, haha.
I think the reason magazines were still popular in Mexico around these years was because internet wasn't yet such a basic need like it is today, so a lot of people here had magazines as the only source of video game news. A good number of gamers are collectors as well, so I guess many of them didn't miss a single issue. Both facts helped the magazine's sales.
I always loved the way that magazine was written. it was as if Gus Rodriguez (the editor) was talking to you.
Great point!
Except in the first two issues where they called the readers “amiguitos” (the diminutive word for “friends” you’d only use when talking to little kids). They were quick to course correct and that infamous word was never uttered in its pages ever again.
Sadly the witty language and “talking to you as a friend” demeanor was lost sometime in the 2000s when Gus stepped aside and his cousin Toño took over. Grab any issue from the Gamecube era and beyond and reading its pages feels like reading copy directly written from an advertisement, it was a drastic change and for the worse.
Gus means a lot for us mexicans and for many other latin countries. Many of us are what we are because of what he showed us as kids. Rest in peace, our dear teacher.
The only parallel I can think of is Takahashi Meijin. Everything I read of Gus showed he was universally loved and the ultimate gamer in his country! Thanks for watching
@@GTV-Japan I think...and well, I'd be reluctant to claim this is how every other mexican gamer feels, that Gus was more of everyone's friend and cool uncle/brother, beyond his gaming. Plenty of us knew he also was involved with writing some of the best comedy that a famous mexican comedian made, and with how down to earth Gus was plenty of us felt like treating him more as an equal than as an icon. Of course, we still admired him but...I guess there's a reason he's so close to our hearts even after so many years.
Yeah it’s hard to believe how much he did in his career
Same here primo really wish I could’ve met him.
No pude decirlo mejor, justo así me sentí siempre sobre Gus. Un héroe e icono de los gloriosos noventas. ¡Saludos desde alguna peculiar zona de México!
Did you grow up as a fan of Club Nintendo and Gus? Or were you aware of how popular Nintendo was in Latin America? Leave your thoughts and opinions below!
Club Nintendo was also a thing in scandinavia, released by Nintendo's partner/subsidiary Bergsala
One of the few magazines I ever bought and somehow collected was Club Nintendo, specially one of its most valuable issues to me: it was a collection of artwork of several games, from Mario to Chrono Trigger, from Zelda to Illusion of Gaia, and many, many more. It was pure joy to delve into those pages and to feel like being in so many worlds. To me, that issue was more important than any issue featuring any codes, secrets, passwords, you name it.
I'm 4 magines shy of a full collection, club nintendo was part of me growing up, month to month I waited eagerly for the new issue to arrive
Whe I was a kid I wait every month to go to the news stand and buy the new Club Nintendo.
I grew up in a very large Hispanic community in New York City I'm half Puerto Rico and half Dominican Republic and my family always have the TV set on one of two Spanish stations and 90% of the time I always watch Nintendo video games ads in Spanish and seeing only me and my younger brother speak English the rest watch us playing Nintendo games and wondering how we are moving "cartoon characters" on screenXD
Fantastic video Sir! Nice to hear some history not connected to Japan or the US.
Yeah it’s out there. Actually the whole 27 years of the magazine was easy to find in one click. I’ll be doing more globetrotting hopefully. Take care!
@@GTV-Japan Yeah it really works, it does weird when you stumble across a lost culture with something you're connected to. Like some sort of alternate dimension you've discovered!
I think it's Sweden or Holland that a really interesting connection with Nintendo too, having that Mario on a pole that was all over the internet about 20 years ago.
Yeah I was told about that. Also I’ve learned Nintendo was huge in Germany while Sega wasn’t. At least not so much. Counter to the narrative you always here. Also. Germans love David Hasselhoff.
Hello you!!
Yes let us all say hello you to Larry so muh alguh riddums can get a boost! 🍺
I didn't expect the feels at the end, we miss you, Gus.
He was true to the end! Thanks for watching
"The feels"???????
Chills and tears
Gus, estamos en contact.
What a trip down memory lane!! Club Nintendo alongside Nintendomania cemented video games as a serious industry in Mexico!! Gus, we miss you and your work and dedication will never be forgotten. I am proud to be a Nintendomaniaco!! R.I.P.
Language may separate us, but our love for videogames unite everyone of us here, really great video, we'll miss Gus, but his legacy will continue not only in videogames but in all Mexico
That’s a wonderful way to put it!
Hey Fredd!
Ridículo
@@Alan_Malgesto callate y muestra mas respeto
Hey b0os!
I feel like Mexico and its people are sometimes overlooked due to their stereotypes. This mini documentary left me in awe with the quality of such product and people behind it. Let alone the fact it was during the 80s, predating internet services!
If someone is unaware of how awesome the gamers are and how the scene is there, that’s their loss! Thanks for watching
@Juan Taco In Mexicali, it's werd to read behind my Trinitrons and notice they was manufactured two hours from my house 🤣
Club Nintendo y Gus Rodríguez marcaron un antes y después de la industria de los videojuegos en México, un verdadero legado para los que tuvimos la oportunidad de crecer y vivir en esa época.
En peru veia el programa por cable me daba envidia que la tele mexicana tubieran programas asi y soñaba con tener todas las consolas y juegos gracias gus por todo
Yo recuerdo cuando vi el numero 1 de club Nintendo en un puesto de revistas,lo compre sin dudarlo y fui super fan de esa revista iba a las demostraciones de juegos como Street Fighter II turbo y la de Mortal Kombat en un hotel al sur de la CDMX, conocí a Gus Rodriguez Q.E.P.D el gurú de los video juegos en México super amable, super buenísima onda,pero todo ese favoritismo que le tuve a Nintendo se termino cuando tuve en mis manos la PSX, claro que le tengo mucho cariño a Nintendo y sus consolas NES,GAME BOY Y SUPER NES por que me hicieron pasar ratos muy buenos.
No sólo México amigo acá en mi pequeño país lo veíamos muchos, a pesar de no llegar Nintendo lo teníamos ya que lo traian nuestros familiares de EEUU y Gus con Nintendo manía fue el inicio de muchos Gammer en América Latina, saludos al infinito Maestro Guz Rodríguez...
En México y latinoamerica. La primera vez que encontré la revista fue en julio 2001, no sabia de su existencia pero se convirtió en una especie de aventura ya que tenia que buscarla en diferentes sitios mes tras mes ya que no traía muchas a República Dominicana . Y puedo decir con orgullo que coleccione cada una de ellas hasta que dejaron de venir en físico y aun las tengo conmigo 😁
PD: Encontraron todos los rombos 🤭
Awesome work! a wonderful tribute to Gus and all latinamerican Nintendo fans.
You started the train on this one because after you told me about the magazine and Chris houlihan I must have gotten 100 requests for this topic. So without you it might have never happened
Oh, mine was just a random comment. I love your channel and the hard work you put on every video. Thanks a lot for sharing with us incredible information about the things we love!
@@CesarCordova of course! I do what I can. And it sure beats those who charge $5 to vote on some pre selected idea. Really don’t like that.
@@GTV-Japan Rest in peace gus, rest in peace
que tal cesarin felicidades por tu telento una disculpa apenas me vengo enterando de lo que haz hecho y sobre todo que eres mexicano te felicito y doy las gracias por llevar el nombre de mexico en lo alto igual gracias a GTV Japan que buen vidoe acabo de ver llore de recordar al buen gus
Siempre me retuerce el corazón escuchar a Gus decir: "siempre hay una recompensa más allá del game over".
Gracias por tanto Gus.
Callate me vas. Ahacer llorar
esa frase me hizo llorar, muy profunda
Igual a mi, se me ponen los ojos como candy candy!! Esas palabras quedaron inmortalizadas desde aquel ultimo programa de nintendo manía!!
Los ultimos 30s del video te ponen a llorar intenso :'(
Te entiendo. También me sacó las lágrimas.
Banda no les voy a mentir, la verdad lloré al final cuando volví a escuchar la voz de Gus, lo admiraba muchisimo
Nintendo owes Gus all its success throughout Latin America, I think it deserves much more than a documentary
True! He delivered basically a whole continent, millions of fans and tons of money. Wish he had more recognition. Thanks for watching
Yeah, I agree. I grew up with club Nintendo in Venezuela back in the early 90s and to this day I am still a Nintendo fan. I really miss club Nintendo a Gus. Those were the days.
At this point I’d settle with one tweet from the official Nintendo account, let alone a documentary. As good as this video was it’s not like it was endorsed by Nintendo themselves, sadly.
Nope! And they never will. Nor will the approved inner circle of Nintendo RUclipsrs ever give this video a nod either! But oh well. Their loss!
Omg! Im crying, even outside Mexico the people recognize the Gus Work for nintendo and video games in latinoamerica.
Thanks for the video man.
Don’t cry! I hope I could do justice to his legacy. Thanks for watching
Mexican here.
I remember this magazine when I was 6 and I loved it. The format, the colors, the screenshots and the data on it was awesome.
All my admiration to people like Gus that believed that Mexico needed this form of communication and pushed to make it happen.
Thanks for sharing your memories!
As a Chilean born in 1983, this brought back so many memories. I still have some of my Club Nintendo magazines lying around, and take some time to re-read them every now and then.
Thanks for making this video!
You’re welcome I’m glad you liked it
Esa última frase "Siempre hay una recompensa más allá del Game Over" simplemente perfecta, infinitas gracias por todo lo que hiciste Gus
Didn't expect a GTV episode to make me cry.
It’s just the rain
Yeah, certainly an emotional one.
Man tears :,)
Bro... your channel's logo design for this episode man. A tear was shed, not gonna lie.
Thanks for noticing
No soy mexicano, pero gracias a esta revista fue que casi todos en Latinoamérica conocieron Nintendo inicialmente!! Saludos desde Panamá!! x)
I didn't even own a Nintendo console but I asked my parents every month for the magazine, club Nintendo Will always have a place in my heart
That’s cool! Thanks for watching
Just saw this. I live in the Dominican Republic and I remember when the magazines that I would by were EGM, Gamepro and Nintendo Power. But one afternoon in late 1992 I discovered a magazine and it was Club Nintendo. I'm so excited as I write this, all the memories but man, when I heard Gus at the end say those words my hairs stood on end. Farewell Gus, may you keep on journeying towards the next castle.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and memories! Estamos en contact 👍🏻
@@GTV-Japan así será, gracias.
I am blown away. I am not used to seeing this kind of content from English speaking outlets. I was there on the day of Gus' death yelling into the void of social media asking Nintendo and their people to acknowledge Gus' passing to no avail. No one person did more to help build and grow the Nintendo brand in Latinamerica (and especially Mexico) than Gus Rodriguez despite never directly working for Nintendo. And Nintendo of America couldn't even bother to send a press release honoring him. The man was a genius, a visionary, and an amazing approachable person who would give his time to the smallest of podcasts for an interview without questioning. On top of all that he was also a screenwriter and worked for many years alongside one of the, if not THE, most famous comedian to come out of Mexico in history Eugenio Derbez who's now in Hollywood movies all over (most recently in Dora The Explorer). It was in fact Eugenio's Twitter account that broke the news od Gus' passing.
The memory of Gus will always be with us but I'm saddened that so few ppl outside of Latin America had ever heard his name and that Nintendo couldn't bother to mentioning him when he died. It's safe to say I wouldn't be the Nintendo fan I am today had it not been for him and his two 90s creations: Club Nintendo and NintendoManía.
There's no shortages of Spanish videos talking about the history of CN and Gus so thank you for putting this one in English.
Honestly I hadn’t heard of Gus until late last year. When I went it research I found almost no English information and when I read the Spanish information I realized there was a huge disconnect. At least now this can serve as one tribute that will spread word of Gus, his work and his memory. Thanks for watching
Pero te equivocas, Gus si trabajó directamente para Nintendo. La revista estaba licenciada por la marca, su hijo ha mencionado que si trabajaron directamente para ellos.
@@sausage_and_peppers a ver compa, el hecho que la revista tuviera la licencia de Nintendo no significa que Gus trabajaba directamente para Nintendo. Gus NO pertenecía a la nómina de Nintendo of America ni su sueldo era pagado por ellos. A eso me refiero con “directo”. Trabajaba de manera indirecta porque no era empleado de ellos y su sueldo salía de Network Publicidad, de Televisa y no sé si de TV Azteca o Itochu.
Club Nintendo era solo una revista oficial que le pagaba la licencia de la marca a Nintendo. Lo que tú estás insinuando es que si yo vendo botana y consigo la licencia de Disney para venderlas con Mickey Mouse en la bolsa entonces trabajo para Disney? Claro que no y es lo mismo con Gus. Así que no, no me equivoco. Gus nunca fue empleado por Nintendo.
@@AlexRN Eres el clásico nerd sabelotodo que ahuevo quiere tener la razón. Te estoy diciendo que su hijo JAVIER ha mencionado QUE SI TRABAJARON DIRECTAMENTE PARA NINTENDO, Fin de la discusión.
@@sausage_and_peppers liga aquí la prueba de donde lo dijo. Gus Rodríguez jamás fue empleado de Nintendo. Trabajó con la marca pero jamás dentro de la nómina de la compañía. No sé qué más decirte. TV Azteca trabajó con la marca de la NFL per no por eso José Ramón Fernández era empleado de la NFL. Es lo mismo. A menos que tengas pruebas más allá de “me acuerdo q una vez escuché a Javier que dijo X y Y”.
I grew up in mexico and im very happy to see someone give an oral history of something that not too many people know and I wish more people outside of Mexico and Lantin America would get to experience.
Thanks I hope it does spread word a little bit. Maybe a lot!
As someone fluent in Spanish that grew up in the US, all of this was amazing to see. I could literally pause anywhere and read some gaming history. Thanks GTV and everyone that helped the video come together.
You’re welcome! The three guys who helped were great in giving me info and pictures. They were also personal friends of Gus.
This is not something I'd ever expect to see on an English-language channel. Nice. Also, I like the nod to CN's rhombus. Thank you.
Thanks! For every episode I make a logo based on the topic
Did anyone else cry watching this video? All those memories reading the magazine, waiting every month to buy it. The memories also to wake up on a Saturday just to watch Nintendomania.
Gus we miss you! Thank you for everything.
It’s ok. It’s just the rain 🌧
Dude, thanks for this, I was a loyal follower of Club Nintendo and Nintendomania, I'm still an avid gamer 30 years later, and a big part of it it's thanks to Gus Rodriguez, such a great human being.
I’m glad you liked it! Happy to deliver
When I was a kid growing up in Mexico, my grandma would buy these for me every month; even once I moved to the U.S. and into my high school years. I still have a pile of these and read them every so often. =)
That cool! Thanks for sharing your memories
Nice to see that Gus legacy has transcended even with the language barrier, your channel Is truly a masterpiece Mr. GTV
Thank you. The topic of Gus and CN was the number one most requested topic so I had to give the people what they want
I'm a simple man, I see Gus on the thumbnail and I click. Very well done, it's nice seeing how influential the publication was not just in Mexico, but in latin america. Thanks!
You’re welcome! Thanks for watching
Muchas gracias por realizar este reportaje. La verdad que Gus Rodriguez si marcó a muchos mexicanos en nuestras infancia. Siempre se le recordará con mucho cariño. Y la verdad si me saco una lagrima al escuchar su voz al final, Mi gran Gus: Estamos en contact !!
Reminder: Club Nintendo was the first piece of media in the world in discovering and documenting the Backwards Long Jump stairs glitch in Mario 64, they documented it before internet was a massive thing ( I remember CN even made some sections about how creating your own website during the internet early years).
My love for this magazine cannot be described, this video was a very beautiful tribute to Gus and all the CN staff. Reading the old magazines is a magical experience, specially during the N64 and Gamecube eras, where I think they were at their absolute peak. Very well done and documented video sir, got me emotional and all.
Yes I’ve heard it here a lot
I have almost all issue of Club Nintendo where i live (Venezuela). Always a treat to read them! RIP Gus :(
That’s great! I’ve been getting lots of comments saying the same! Thanks for watching
Que raro oir a Picolo vender juegos de 64 jaja
También hizo anuncios para GameCube.
como olvidar el comercial de Super Smash Bros para la 64
Ya le alcanzó la crisis en el planeta Nameku y tuvo que cambiar de giro, jaja
Ah jueputa, entonces si es Picoro, sabía que no estaba loco.
Lo cagado es que en esos tiempos ni te dabas cuenta. 😝
A few years ago I had the fortune to meet Gus in a restaurant here in Mexico City, there was a small line of people my age (I was 30 years old at the time) eager to take a picture with him and get an autograph ... he was a very nice guy. kind, educated and caring that anyone could imagine. His work, dedication and passion penetrated very, very deep in an entire generation and left a permanent legacy for the entire Mexican and Latin American gamer world. Gus, we are in contact!
I had a NES in 1986 because my Father who was an Electroincs Engineer, began to build arcades and his connection to bring the pcbs was friend of him, the son of a japanese restaurant owner here in CDMX where my father arranged the light sound system, they become friends, Roberto Miyasaki talked business and began to sell him pcb's for my father to build the arcade cabinet, one time he gave 3 NES as a gift for good business, and one was for me. I remember for me back then the controller so much complicated compared to the atari one, and coin op with one button or two I was used to, and for the NES nobody knew what I was talking about at school until like 1989 when the NES really popularized.
Wow 😯 thanks for sharing this amazing story
Very cool to learn about a side of Nintendo that I was unaware of. Gus’s final sign off of Nintendo Mania was very touching. Well done!
Thanks Eric glad to see you back!
@@GTV-Japan Thanks! I’ve got a few videos to catch up on...
You have no idea! And now that he died way too young its even more layered.
@@AlexRN For sure! It’s amazing what one man did for gaming in Mexico.
@@Eric_Plunk I was 9 years old when Nintendomania debuted on Saturday mornings so yeah I was right in the middle of that target demographic back then. This man meant so much to me, I even got to meet him in person several times through various events he made around the country. Such an awesome fucking person.
"There is always a reward beyond the Game Over"
Leí esto y se humedecieron los ojos. Jamás olvidaré esos sábados después de caritele
Gus and Pepé were the pillars of the modern latin Nintendo fandom, Club Nintendo and Nintendomania created a lot of dedicated fans, i rember the november of 2008, i went with my grandma to the supermarcket, then i suddenly seen a magazine that interested me, the November 2008 Club Nintendo, with Animal Crossing City Folk in the cover, i begged to my grandma "grandma, buy me that magazine", well, the mission was completed, i read that magazine 100 times everyday, the articles talking about Castlevania Order of Eclessia, Chrono Trigger DS, AC City Folk, Guitar Hero, and other games, i started to buy Club Nintendo every month, but, when i was 11 (2011) i friend of my uncle gifted me 20 Club Nitendo of the 90's, that magazines created my love for retro games.
Awesome video dude, it's great to see that somone of the USA knows the history of CN, Gus wold be very happy, a greeting for all that englishpeakers Nintendomaniacos.
Thanks for sharing your memories!
TE AMAMOS, GUS 😭
ESTAMOS EN CONTACT POR TODA LA ETERNIDAD
As Chilean, club nintendo was a part of my childhood and as an adult i would pick up club nintendo every now and then. I love it. I think 2019 was their last year here in Chile
Yeah that’s true. Amazing it lived so long
Fun fact: The voice of the announcer on the Ocarina of Time ad 20:34 is the same voice actor who gives the voice to Piccoro in the mexican dub of Dragon Ball Z.
Oh yah I think the description said something like that. Thanks for watching!
He is also the voice of Pixar's Woody and modern James Bond in latin Spanish
he did also for Smash 64 mexican ad as well
Neat!
HIs name is Carlos segundo btw, great voice actor! it was weird(in a good way) to hear hiim in those ads( I was still too young to remember them)
Great go see this finally released, hope all the fans from Mexico and outside like this, Im glad I was able to help a bit to make this happen, as I told you, many gamers (maníacos) will love it.
This video wouldn’t exist without you. So I should be thanking you!
thank you DUDE!
Gracias Nio.
@@JuanRamirez-fx3tf pues gracias a todos los que colaboraron y a la edición de GTV Japan, quedó excelente, yo solamente ayudé en juntar y traducir info, y traté de que algunos detalles no se olvidaran.
@@nio107 then excellent job to every one. The video was really detailed, nostalgic. I remember I bought the magazine the first day it as available, then came the tv show. It's so nostalgic to wtch. thank you.
D.E.P Gustavo, as a chilean boy in the 90's I enjoyed your work and still treasure all the volumes of Club Nintendo that came into my hands. For us little gamers who didn't speak english before the internet age, this was the only way to get information on Nintendo games at the time plus it was beautifully written and edited with lots of pictures and colors. Thank you!!
Thanks for sharing your memories!!
We have a collection of Club Nintendo Magazine from 1991-2000. RIP Gus Rodriguez.
Treasure those issues. Thanks for watching
I grew up reading Club Nintendo, it was hard to get that magazine because of being from Guatemala. I still remember Watching Nintendomania at saturday morning.
Anyone else remeber the phrase ¿Quién eres?
Ahora con 31 años sigo recordando cuando aun ya en la universidad iba a los centros comerciales solo a buscar la revista.
Great Video it made me cry in the end.
Thanks for watching I’m glad you liked it
Club nintendo magazines carried my childhood, we couldn't afford the games but I always had fun reading them and we're a very important part of my life in way, then in 2011 my family was able to finally bought me the dsi you can imagine my excitement. Edit: I'm from costa rica here the distribution was limited back then and the inflation made the games very expensive (even now haha) but I have a job now.
That’s a great story. I couldn’t find info if there was distribution in Costa Rica but it looks like there was!! 🇨🇷 thanks for watching
Such a great research work, such an amazing homage to the magazine and the people who helped set the foundations of the videogame industry in Latin America.
It also amazes me how this was developed, I'm glad that your research on Chris Houlihan led to the discovery of such an important part of gaming culture for us spanish speakers
Thank you so much for this video, you have no idea how much this means to us
Yeah you helped start that. In thee f I had so many requests I couldn’t say no
Wow, que buen reportaje, es muy raro que en EEUU se le dé visibilidad y crédito a tan buenos productos que no fueron en inglés. El impacto de Gus más allá de méjico es incalculable. Gracias se ganaron un seguidor más.
MÉXICO. Con X aunque te cueste más.
Cuanta falta de ortografia, aunque sea una letra y te tardes mas en escribir
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Man, this video means a lot. Growing up in Mexico in the 90s, we didn't always get a lot of news about upcoming video games. This was before the Internet was mainstream. Club Nintendo was an absolute must read. I remember being a lil kid and begging my mom to buy me the magazine when it would come out each month. Gus and his TV show was another huge source of joy and hype. I remember begging my parents to take me to Mexico City so I could visit the studio 😆. Good times.
I’m glad you enjoyed the video! Because so many from Mexico and other countries kept asking about it, I made the video!
@@GTV-Japan very cool to see Gus get reorganized in an English-speaking video. Totally didn't expect that. Just seems so right for his work to be recognized by the international gaming community. He really had a big impact on gaming in Latin America. A true pioneer. I hope that Nintendo Japan places an honorary plaque or tribute in their offices in Japan. Without Gus, gaming wouldn't have taken off as it did in Latin America.
It’s true! Very likely it would just become a grey market place taken over by pcs in the 2000s like South Korea.
I actually ended up featured in one of those acknowledged readers back in the early 2000's, and I was ecstasic when it happened. Club Nintendo was a huge part of my childhood and early-to-mid teens. And also those ads really hit me right in the nostalgia feels.
Thanks for this showcase! Us Mexicans (and also our Latin American brethren) owe a lot to Club Nintendo for paving the way to gaming to all of us. ¡Estamos en Contact!
Thanks for watching that’s awesome. Happy to hear these kinds of stories
Wow no puedo creer que le dedicaran un especial a la revista de club Nintendo power lo dice alguien de México , me llena de orgullo aunque no tuvieramos la elegancia de Nintendo power tenía mucho cariño y esfuerzo.
En muchas maneras era mejor ya que tenía ese toque y humor caracteristico del mexicano.. tan buena fue que duró mucho más tiempo vigente.. saludos
Fue superior por el ingenio mexicano. Verdaderamente fue superior! ✌️😊
Yo la compraba cada mes hasta el wii u y dejaron de venderla en Puerto Rico,lastima
Los recursos eran limitados, la imaginacion y el cariño nunca lo fue.
Mames que perro video, Gustavo siempre en nuestros corazones. lo veia de niño. gracias por el viaje a la nostalgia. LOVE FROM MEXICO
I'm crying with such an emotion... this is my freaking childhood. Thank you so much!
Ah qué chido! Cómo me acuerdo de Club Nintendo, todos sus especiales, siempre buscaba el rombo de la portada! Axy y Spot eran la m***da! Crecí con Club Nintendo y Nintendomanía!
Gracias por todo, Gus! Estamos en contact!
Y arriba la banda de Guanajuato que ande por acá!
Thanks I’m glad you liked it!
Man! What an unexpected video, as mexican, nintendo fan, club nintendo fan, and admirer of Gus, this video mixed with your talent, is a real Jewel, I love it
Thanks I’m glad you liked it!
AHHHHHHHHH THE NOSTALGIA IS HITTING SO HARD!!
I still have some club nintendo magazines here in my shelf. I remember when i was a kid I would BEG my mom to buy me one magazine cause they had this cool posters. unfortunately those cool posters did not last very long :,c.
Unfortunatley I never saw an episode of Nintendomania because here in my country it was never broadcasted, however, i have read a lot a about Gus's impact in Latin-American gaming, a true legend.
Thanks for sharing your story
Gus Rodríguez was a freaking visionary. A genius and I’m not even mentioning his writing work for the Derbez shows. Grew up with him. God bless him.
Yeah, that is what is really amazing, he could have had a huge career without CN! Really a smart guy! Thanks for watching
Derbez owes his career to Gus 😌
As a mexican, i greatly appreciated this video, thank you, Gus Rodriguez, was the peak videogame journalist, i don't imagine anyone in modern times being as charismatic and endearing as him, and it was a blessing to have him in my country.
Thanks for watching
The most important lesson from Gus is "the stars are the videogames... Not the journalist" 😌
What a beautiful and well-researched tribute to Club Nintendo, great job! Growing up, CN was my favourite magazine and I had to save my allowances to not miss a single issue, I wish I still had my collection! I'd salivate when they'd post pictures of Dragon Ball Z games in Japan that we'd never get. :)
The issues are gone but the memories stay! Thanks for watching
As someone from Honduras whose father has told him a lot of about Nintendo Manía, this is a great video and tribute Gus, great job!
Great! I found no information on Honduran releases but assumed it reached most every country. Thanks for watching!
As a HUGE Club Nintendo fan from Colombia (I still have my whole collection from 2002 to 2007) I never heard of Gus' death until today so this video hit extra hard. Him, Pepe, Panteón, Crow, Enrak and all the others that contributed to the magazine in that time will always have a place in my heart. I wholeheartedly thank you for making this video, I'm so glad I found it, this is such a big part of my childhood. RIP Gus and thank you, GTV.
Thanks for watching I’m glad you liked it. Thru comments I’ve learned that there was kind of a separation between areas so news of Gus passing away seems limited to Mexico
That guy was the father we all latino 90's kids wished. I watched his show in Peru in Austral Broadcast (channel 11 in Lima), I didn't own a console but had a lot of fun with Gus and his media (show and magazine). RIP Gus Rodriguez, see you space ranchero!!!
Thanks for sharing your memories
Hey, Thumbs up!! this is great to have this information widespread for other countries that not only Mexicans, as we do, know about Gus Rodriguez's contribution and pioneering on videogame broadcasting and journalism in Mexico. Nice and very interesting narrative about Club Nintendo's story. Please join me in giving a great shout out to Leex, Zeus, Nio and GTV Japan for this work. (PD. It could have been great to have this info at least in brief on the High Score documentary series on Netflix)
Thanks I’m glad you liked it. As for high score, well, that’s their loss!
Gracias Gus por ser un gran hombre y abrirnos al mundo de Nintendo en Mexico. Ah, y tambien por poner a Maggie en Nintendomania, quien era una de mis crushes en los 90. 💓
Thanks Gus for being a great man and opening us kids in Mexico to the world of Nintendo. And also for having Maggie as a host on Nintendomania, who was one of my 90s crushes.
Thanks for sharing your memories! Yah the good old days when we had crushes. Rather than simping on some girl 😂
Im from México and all i have is love and gratittude, this magazine made me realize that when i was younger that im not alone and there is more people like me and i was part of something called community, never treat me like a child, a friend to me, thank you
Thanks for sharing your story
Club Nintendo and Nintendomanía had an incredibly positive impact in my life. I am 34 and I was just playing some Doom Eternal. I still remember how eager my friend and I were when Ocarina of Time would come out, and we were rushing to the mall to buy the latest Club Nintendo issue. My childhood was awesome thanks in part to Gus and his team.
Thanks for sharing your story! It seems the avians of commenters is from this era
I have so many club nintendo magazines!!!
I'm from peru, latin america deserves some more attention, Amazing video!!!!
Great! Thanks for watching
It's great to see love for video games in all countries. Gus seemed like a very awesome dude with such a passion. I bet he loved his job. May he rest in peace.
I plan to cover each region at least once. Thanks for watching
Thank you from all of us latinos who grew up with this magazine for giving it some exposure, I loved that magazine anc collected them until their last issue, and thus brings me so many memories.
You’re welcome! This video was a joy to make
I'm quite amazed at how MOST comments (way more than 9 outta 10) are from Mexicans and Latin Americans in general
Gus was truly THE master gamer in latin america.
he basically taught us that it was not only OK to be gamer, geek or nerd, but that it was actually COOL.
at the end he helped create a cable network channel "BitMe", which is a channel aimed for gamers, anime, and geek and nerd culture in general.
He’s the man! And this video proved RUclips algorithm does send videos to people who want them. No complaint here. Thanks for watching
I got super hyped reading Club Nintendo as a kid. Though by the time I got it, we were already at the N64 and Game Cube era. This brings me awesome memories. I never knew about Gus or the origins of the magazine until now. The fact that they used to hand draw pictures of games to make them look just like the games themselves is beautiful. Truly amazing video.
I’m glad you liked it! Thanks for watching
Grew up in Mexico, and was a monthly subscriber since 2004, fun fact when you took all year long publications, the spines of the magazines made a picture all together, being able to grew up without the hype of the internet and wait till next month on how awesome the DS was capable of, made me realize how great and wonderful is their legacy, and brought excitement and joy to many kids throught all these years, thank you for covering and remembering a great person.
That’s a very cool thing. And I think the world was better when we were rewarded with patience in a slower society
Great video. I grew up with Club Nintendo in Chile, so the whole story really hits close to my heart. Beautiful, simpler times. I still keep some issues of the mag, BTW ... even as a kid they had a big sentimental value to me and I'd read em over and over again.
Thanks for watching! I’m glad I could bring back the feeling of days gone by
Man, this is the most nostalgic moment of this year. Great video, I still have all the Club Nintendo magazines in my room . They are some of my most (personally) valued pieces of nintendo collection. And maaaaaan look at those TV commercials, its like being a kid again!!!
Thanks for such a good video
You’re welcome!
Excellent video! I followed the magazine since 94, so this hit close to home.
some additional info:
* He was extremely close to Shigeru Miyamoto. They first met during the early 90s as in any celebrity-journalist relationship, but immediately related to each other due their shared love for Disney and classic animation, which sparked from miyamoto noticing Gus's Mickey Mouse tie, which he gave to miyamoto as a gift (Miyamoto told him never to give away anything from a collection, and Gus replied it was ok as he had a spare). They often went to dinner together during breaks at conventions and such. One funny anecdote: During an E3, miyamoto noticed Gus among the crowd, and he ran towards him to greet him so fast, that he left his bodyguards confused enough to make them want to tackle Gus!
* Somebody in the comments said that puns are appreciated in Spanish and this is true. Puns are really hard to make in such a rigid language so whenever they show up, their comedic impact is heavily multiplied compared to English.
* Gus's puns are not only beyond genius, the guy was obsessed with grammar and wordplay, he even released a couple of books with lots of wacky wordplay and jokes, spun off from the character he wrote for TV, whose humor was entirely consisting of wordplay!
thanks for these stories! its great to know
Other great history is when Gus fall in a pool by accident in a videogame event hosted by Atomix with Claudio and Gus brake a couple of ribs but he refused to go to the hospital and endure the entire event with pain until the end and even atend the fans and signed a bunch of autographs for all the fans with a big smile 😌
That’s very noble of him!
I loved when mom used to come home with a Club Nintendo magazine. I had a great childhood ❤️
I'm from Colombia and here we all loved Nintendomania and Club Nintendo back in the day. The first number I put my hands on was the #2 issue. It came with a Curso Nintensivo (Nintensive Course) for Little Nemo: The Dream Master from the NES, a friend of mine had a NES console so we rented the Famicom version and had a blast (The game was hard as nails). I have way more childhood stories regarding the magazine. Heck I remember that in 1995 I was at the supermarket in line to checkout, there was an issue that showed the joystick commands for Jago (Killer Instinct), it was expensive for a kid but I told my mother that I truly needed that one, so she bought it for me. A week later I went to the Arcade (Maquinitas) and kicked some ass LOL!
Btw, I absolutely love what you did with your logo watermark for this video, very nostalgic...
Rest In Power Gus.
Thanks for sharing your memories!
Where to begin?, 1991, South east México, after getting my gaming info from Gamepro and EGM for 2 years, I finally found a publication dedicated to, as you perfectly said, to gamers, not kids, and it became part of my adolescent years until I switched to PlayStation in 1997. I’m glad Leex, Nioh and Zeus helped out since they are very knowledgeable of the publication and had the pleasure of working with Gus during his final days on Earth. Thanks to Gus and the publication I learned a little bit of Japanese (they wrote an article about how katakana was used for foreign words), they also taught us with another article the difference of BIT and megabytes, how to interpret binary language and how it translated to the buttons when you pressed forward in Street Fighter 2, there was even a tutorial on how to write HTML before internet was even a thing. I love your work, definitively my favorite is the ‘Look sharp’ episode from Mike Tyson’s Punch Out and the Yume Kōjō Festival documentary, and how your ‘advertising’ breaks are also a big part of the research you do. You are the man and as a Mexican I thank you for your hard work, I have no words of appreciation of the value you provide to the gaming community. May your legacy live forever.
Thanks I’m glad you like what I do! This is a great comment too! I have many to go thru but please know I read every word of this and each other one. Thanks and have a happy Easter
You talking about my whole childhood and teenage years, I had sporadical issues of CN throughout the 90's but from june of 2000 (Excitebike 64 cover) to december of 2007 (Mario Party DS) I have every single issue of CN.
That’s awesome!
I think I'm a bit older than you because I had sporadic issued from the SNES era (1991-1996) but from the issue about the launch of the N64 (September 1996 with Pilotwings 64 and the N64 in the cover) to around 2003-04 I didn't miss a single issue. I became a subscriber the moment I realized I could be one and waited with bated breath for the next magazine to arrive in that iconic black cellophane paper from Editorial Televisa. I loved being surprised at what was going to be that month's cover front page and would read it cover to cover. I especially love the Dr. Mario section and reading all those reader questions which many times were the same ones I had.
Acá en Costa Rica se vivió de una forma muy parecida. Yo siempre deseaba a que llegara el nuevo mes para conseguir un nuevo número de la revista! Muchísimas gracias a Gus y a Pepe.
Gracias a Zeus y a Leex también!
I still have all of mine! I went to the store every month to look for it. So many good memories. I could only get one or maybe two games a year during my childhood and adolescence and would base them squarely from what they said in this magazine. It made me the nintendo fan I am today.
Thanks for sharing your memories! I remember that wait for new issues of all kinds of magazines too. It really was an oasis in the desert of kid-dom
You're a Big one, Gustavo. Your magazine left such a Big legacy it Even trascended frontiers and now foreign people knows them.
Saludos desde México, Amigos de GTV
Thanks for watching
As a mexican who grew up with the magazine and the tv show. I feel so excited to see recognition from outside Mexico, and I feel so happy just to know that the name of Gus Rodriguez reaches new places. Thank you GTV
You’re welcome!
"Siempre hay una recompensa más allá del Game over"
Aún estamos en contact Gus
"ESTAMOS EN CONTACT"
Was the phrase that GUS used to say
To close the show every saturday morning
Yeah. That’s a nice message. Thanks for watching
Terrific job, guys. You gave this magazine the place it deserves. Just loved it.
Gus was the most influential videogames-wise guy of the time, but not only that, he was a great guy! I've heard some amazing stories from people who had the luck to met him.
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Fun Fact 2: The guy that does the voice-over for most of the Nintendo Commercials is the one that dubs Piccolo from the Dragon Ball Series (Carlos Segundo)
Thanks for watching yeah everyone knows he’s piccolo 😃
Thank you so much for this video, I was born in '86, I had a SNES, and Nintendomania, club Nintendo and Gus were a huge part of my childhood. I remember going to the newspaper stand every 1st day of the month and kept going everyday looking for Club Nintendo, it was so important for me to buy it. I also remember saturday mornings waiting for Nintendomania to start on TV, it was the best moment of every weekend; a certain saturday a high profile mexican politician died and the TV network canceled Nintendomania just to cover the death of that guy, I was so pissed!!! Anyway thanks so much for this trip down memory lane, you just made this random mexican gamer happy, thanks so much!
Thanks for sharing your memories and story
Extremely underrated channel. Hope to see more videos like this in the future!
Thanks I made 110 other videos. Many just like this one. Give them a chance sometime
This hit me like a ton of bricks! I'm seriously crying. This magazine was my thing as a kid. Not only it introduced me to gaming, but above all, this magazine was my gateway into anime back when I was twelve through its dedicated japan section. I have like a hundred issues of it, mostly from the wii u era. Thinking about it, I was the last generation that got to grow up with it. That's very sad, but I'm very grateful for what it was. The first issue I got was the one on Super Mario Galaxy 2. I also have the Sonic 20th anniversary issue, and the special Zelda Skyward Sword issue that marked the 25th anniversary for the magazine. Another cool thing about it, is that at least in the modern issues, the spines of the magazine formed an image when displayed together, with a different image every year. I have all 12 2014 issues with Sticker Star on the spine! Another thing to note is that they always answered your questions, even when they didn't make it into the magazine, no matter how stupid they were (I was a little kid lol). Good times, good times.
Thanks for this wonderful comment! I had no idea they wrote everyone back even if you didn’t make the magazine. Nintendo Power never did that! At least with me
Thank you for this video, Gus and Club Nintendo mean a lot for us in Latin America
I was happy to do it!
First of all, I'm sad to find out that Gustavo passed away last year. I was a big fan of the NES back in the late 80s and early 90s. I vividly remember both Club Nintendo (even the first issue) and Nintendo Mania, which I loved to watch on Saturday mornings on Canal 13. It was through Nintendo Mania that I heard about the then upcoming N64. His enthusiasm and top notch coverage about everything related to Nintendo was phenomenal. This video was such a nice trip through Memory Lane. Rest in Peace, Gustavo.
Thanks for sharing your memories
I definitely remember the big impact that Nintendo had on Mexico. I’m half Mexican and I’m from El Paso, Tx which shares a border with Ciudad Juarez. Nintendo was everywhere. When the NES was in its heyday, I remember people coming from Mexico to shop at our local walmart (which was very common) to buy Nintendos during Christmas time. I don’t personally remember seeing an arcade in Juarez, but I remember they had these shops where you could pay to play Super Nintendos or Sega Genesis’s at these little kiosks for a period of time.
Great video! I was aware of Gus, but I never really watched his show or anything. My Spanish is very poor compared to my parents, and I read all the English publications instead.
That’s really cool! Thanks for telling me about that!!
I still remember walking up early morning on a Saturday to watch Nintendo Mania, thanks Gus for all the tips of so many video games.
It must have been exciting seeing each every episode
Este video me dejó un sabor bien agridulce, por un lado recordar tiempos muy felices en Venezuela cuando acompañaba a mi mamá al supermercado y correr como loco a buscar mi club nintendo y por otro lado enterarme que el gran Gus nos dejó en 2020. Un abrazo a todos los que vivimos esa época tan bonita (aún tengo mi gran colección intacta esperándome en mi país :D)
Glad to know there are gamers like Gus that helped to set the basis and strengthen that great industry of video games which we all love nowadays. Great video.
Thanks I’m glad you liked it
Going to buy the Club Nintendo magazine every month was one of my foundest childhood memories. Same for the show, I loved watching it every Saturday morning.
I actually had no idea Gus was one of the people that started the magazine. Great video.
Thanks for watching!!
Thanks for doing this video and give some recognition to the mexican gaming culture, the name of Gus Rodriguez is a legend here in the gaming comunity, and I had good times seeing him on TV when I was a little kid, and reading Club Nintendo at age 11
I had like 5 years in a row of those magazines, first going to buy them one by one month to month then begging my mom to subscribe to the magazine so they could mail it to you and get a little discount, good memories bro.
You’re welcome! Thanks for sharing your memories