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ONM: All 50 Covers!

20-Nov-2009 Look back at the first 50 issues

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Official Nintendo Magazine is 50! It's amazing to think that it has been over three and a half years since we launched the first issue of the new-look Official Nintendo Magazine back in February 2006.

The DS was the star of the first issue and you can see the chunky silver handheld on our very first front cover in the gallery below. How times have changed - since then Nintendo has released two more DS consoles (DS Lite and DSi) and the third (DSi XL) will be launched next year.

The next two covers were the big DS games of the day - Animal Crossing: Wild World and Metroid Prime: Hunters - but from issue 4 onwards we were building up to what would be the event of the year: the launch of the Wii. Although when we put Red Steel on our cover the console was still being referred to as Revolution.

We celebrated the launch of the Wii in issue 11 and from then on it was all about the games. There really have been many great Wii and DS titles that have adorned our covers from Super Mario Galaxy to Wii Sports Resort and The Legend Of Zelda: Spirit Tracks which graces our landmark 50th issue. You can read more about the 50th issue here.

We reveal our top ten favourite covers in the new issue of the magazine but take a look at the gallery of covers below and let us know which one is your favourite.

Have any of you got all 50 issues? Feel free to share your favourite moments from the magazine below.

Don't want to miss an issue from now on? You can subscribe to ONM here.

Tom East

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ONM 1: DS	ONM 2: Animal Crossing Wild World	ONM 3: Metroid Prime Hunters
ONM 4: Red Steel (First Look)	ONM 5: Legend Of Zelda: Twilight Princess	ONM 6: Sonic And The Secret Rings (originally Wild Fire)
ONM 7: Super Mario Galaxy (Preview)	ONM 8: Battalion wars	ONM 9: Red Steel (Preview)
ONM 10: Wii Channels	ONM 11: Wii Launch	ONM 12: 2007 Preview Issue
ONM 13: Excite Truck	ONM 14: MySims	ONM 15: Diddy Kong Racing DS
ONM 16: Mario Strikers: Charged Football	ONM 17: Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles	ONM18: Rayman Raving Rabbids 2
ONM 19: WWE SmackDown Vs Raw 2008	ONM 20: Legend Of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass	ONM 21: Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
ONM 22: Mario & Sonic At The Olympic Games	ONM 23: Super Mario Galaxy	ONM 24: Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Preview)
ONM 25: No More Heroes	ONM 26: Star Wars: The Force Unleashed	ONM 27: Pro Evolution Soccer 2008
ONM 28: Mario Kart Wii	ONM 29: Sonic Unleashed	ONM 30: Facebreaker
ONM 31: Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Review)	ONM 32: Mario Sluggers (where is it?)	ONM 33: Animal Crossing: Let's Go To The City (Preview)
ONM 34: Wario Land: The Second Dimension	ONM 35: Sonic Unleashed (Review)	ONM 36: Professor Layton And The Curious Village
ONM 37: Animal Crossing: Let's Go To The City (Review)	ONM 38: 2009 Preview	ONM 39: Pikmin
ONM 40: Mario & Sonic At The Olympic Winter Games (Preview)	ONM 41: Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars	ONM 42: Rabbids Go Home
ONM 43: Red Steel 2	ONM 44: Grand Slam Tennis	ONM 45: Wii Sports Resort
ONM 46: Scribblenauts	ONM 47: New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Preview)	ONM 48: Mario & Sonic At The Olympic Winter Games (Review)
ONM 49: New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Review)	ONM 50: Legend Of Zelda: Spirit Tracks