In Ukraine in the 90s, magazines like Nintendo were nowhere to be found. There was only one Chinese one with a translation of how to play games on the 8-bit Dendy console (a fake of the famous Japanese Famicom). But the entertainment magazines about music and various teenage topics were very similar to the American ones.
Disney Adventures and Nintendo Power are the only magazines featured in this video that I actually owned issues of in the 90's. I vaguely remember seeing issues of Highlights in the waiting rooms of both my pediatrician's office, and the clinics I went to at the local children's hospital, but I never got to read one. Zoobooks and Time for Kids weren't something I was even aware of, and Nickelodeon Magazine wasn't available here in Canada, because Nickelodeon wasn't available here in Canada, unless you had a satellite dish that picked up the closest Nickelodeon feed from the US. Shows produced by Nickelodeon aired on two different channels here, and we didn't get the actual Nickelodeon channel here until 2009, unless, again you were lucky enough to have a satellite dish instead of regular broadcast and cable television. I had a 1995 issue of Disney Adventures that featured a preview and indepth look at Gargoyles, which was just about to air its second season, and I had a special summer special issue of Disney Adventures from 1997. I also had the Pokemon Yellow issue of Nintendo Power from 1999, and then the Epic Mickey/The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks issue from 2009.
@@tymforhistory Yup! Like I said, we got most of Nickelodeon's shows on two different channels, one was Family Channel, which the Nickelodeon shows shared with Disney Channel shows in the late 90's and early 2000's, and YTV, which aired all of the Nicktoons. However, we didn't get all of the live action shows, or got them later. Like we didn't get Kenan & Kel at all, and we didn't get Clarissa Explains It All and The Adventures of Pete & Pete until 1999 or 2000, long after they'd both finished their original runs on Nickelodeon.
@@tymforhistory Yeah, because we also didn't get Disney Channel here until 2015, six years AFTER we got our own Nickelodeon. So the shows from both had to be split between two channels, just because we also had our own shows to air as well. So all we Canadian children knew of Nickelodeon was the logo at the end of shows like Doug, Rugrats, Angry Beavers etc. as well as the orange VHS tapes, which we still got since we not only got the shows on home video, but we had the movies like Harriet the Spy as well.
I had a subscription to Nickelodeon Magazine. I read those things, cover to cover. Completely trashed them. Took them to school with me, constantly reading them. It truly was an amazing magazine. And I took it for granted. Obviously magazines are out of style, and have been replaced by tablets. But there just isn't anything that comes close to the greatness of Nickelodeon magazine. No app, no website, nothing. Now its just pure brainrot with skibidi toilet, and pure misinformation about health and politics.
My elementary school would get Highlights and I LOVED the day we got new issues. I would read it cover to cover dozens of times.
Whenever my family and I went to the bank or the doctor's, those places always had Highlights magazines! This was in the 90s-2000s!
In Ukraine in the 90s, magazines like Nintendo were nowhere to be found. There was only one Chinese one with a translation of how to play games on the 8-bit Dendy console (a fake of the famous Japanese Famicom).
But the entertainment magazines about music and various teenage topics were very similar to the American ones.
Disney Adventures and Nintendo Power are the only magazines featured in this video that I actually owned issues of in the 90's. I vaguely remember seeing issues of Highlights in the waiting rooms of both my pediatrician's office, and the clinics I went to at the local children's hospital, but I never got to read one. Zoobooks and Time for Kids weren't something I was even aware of, and Nickelodeon Magazine wasn't available here in Canada, because Nickelodeon wasn't available here in Canada, unless you had a satellite dish that picked up the closest Nickelodeon feed from the US. Shows produced by Nickelodeon aired on two different channels here, and we didn't get the actual Nickelodeon channel here until 2009, unless, again you were lucky enough to have a satellite dish instead of regular broadcast and cable television. I had a 1995 issue of Disney Adventures that featured a preview and indepth look at Gargoyles, which was just about to air its second season, and I had a special summer special issue of Disney Adventures from 1997. I also had the Pokemon Yellow issue of Nintendo Power from 1999, and then the Epic Mickey/The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks issue from 2009.
Nickelodeon didn’t start airing in Canada until 2009? TIL.
@@tymforhistory Yup! Like I said, we got most of Nickelodeon's shows on two different channels, one was Family Channel, which the Nickelodeon shows shared with Disney Channel shows in the late 90's and early 2000's, and YTV, which aired all of the Nicktoons. However, we didn't get all of the live action shows, or got them later. Like we didn't get Kenan & Kel at all, and we didn't get Clarissa Explains It All and The Adventures of Pete & Pete until 1999 or 2000, long after they'd both finished their original runs on Nickelodeon.
Okay I remember hearing about YTV. That’s interesting that Disney and Nickelodeon kind of shared a channel! I had no idea a
@@tymforhistory Yeah, because we also didn't get Disney Channel here until 2015, six years AFTER we got our own Nickelodeon. So the shows from both had to be split between two channels, just because we also had our own shows to air as well. So all we Canadian children knew of Nickelodeon was the logo at the end of shows like Doug, Rugrats, Angry Beavers etc. as well as the orange VHS tapes, which we still got since we not only got the shows on home video, but we had the movies like Harriet the Spy as well.
I had a subscription to Nickelodeon Magazine. I read those things, cover to cover. Completely trashed them. Took them to school with me, constantly reading them. It truly was an amazing magazine. And I took it for granted. Obviously magazines are out of style, and have been replaced by tablets. But there just isn't anything that comes close to the greatness of Nickelodeon magazine. No app, no website, nothing. Now its just pure brainrot with skibidi toilet, and pure misinformation about health and politics.