Official Nintendo Magazine 50

The 50th issue (Christmas 2009) of the Official Nintendo Magazine was released on 20 May 2009. It came with a 2010 calender. It has the first review of The Legend f Zelda: Spirt Tracks inside.

Features

 * Warren Spector interview
 * Back in Black - a look at the black Wii
 * News on the use of the DS in schools.
 * DSI XL information
 * Kevin Short interview - scriptwriter for James Cameron's Avatar: The Game
 * Talk with Anthony Davidson (Brawn GP test driver) and David Croft (F1 commentator) on F1 2009 and a guide to racing on Silverstone.
 * Interview with Shigeru Miyamoto
 * ONM's 50 greatest Nintendo Moments

ONM's Top Ten ONM Covers
1-Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles(Official Nintendo Magazine 17) 2-Scribblenauts(Official Nintendo Magazine 46) 3-Facebreaker(Official Nintendo Magazine 30) 4-Excite Truck(Official Nintendo Magazine 13) 5-Metroid Prime 3: Corruption(Official Nintendo Magazine 21) 6-Animal Crossing: Wild World(Official Nintendo Magazine 02) 7-Rabbids Go Home(Official Nintendo Magazine 42) 8-No More Heroes(Official Nintendo Magazine 25) 9-Super Smash Bros. Brawl(Official Nintendo Magazine 24) 10-New Super Mario Bros. Wii(Official Nintendo Magazine 47)

Wii - ONM's Top Five... War Games
1-Call of Duty: World at War 2-Battalion Wars 2 3-Medal of Honor Heroes 2 4-Call of Duty 3 5-Brothers in Arms: Double Time

DS - ONM's Top Five... Pick-up-and-play Games
1-WarioWare Touched! 2-Rhythm Paradise 3-Zoo Keeper 4-Elite Beat Agents 5-Tetris DS

Virtual Console - ONM's Top Five... Forgotten Heroes
1-ToeJam & Earl 2-Earthworm Jim 3-Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle 4-Ecco the Dolphin 5-Ristar

ONM's Top 50 Nintendo Moments
50 - Out First Cartoon - Flipnote Studio, Dsi - Producing your first cartoon. 49 - You Nose It - WarioWare Inc, GBA - the Gold Digger mini game. 48 - Child's Play - Super Ghouls 'N' Ghosts, SNES - When the evil magician appears in a trasure chest and turns you into a baby. 47 - The Sub-Pop - Super Mario Land, Game Boy - The games two shoot 'em up stages, the best being World 2-3. 46 - Trench Warfare - Star Wars: Rogue Leader, GameCube - The superb looking Death Star level. 45 - Pikmin Genocide - Pikmin, Gamecube - When you accidentally guide your Pikmin to their death. 44 - ULTRAAAAA! ULTRAAAAA! - Killer Instince, SNES - When you get a combo of 100 hits, the announcer yells "ULTRAAAAA! ULTRAAAAA!" 43 - The Write Idea - The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, DS - Being able to use the touch screen to write on the map. 42 - Praying Mantis - Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes, GameCube - When Psycho Mantis reads your mind by telling you which game you have been playing using your memory card. 41 - Good Vs Evil - Scribblenauts, DS - Pitting God against the Devil, especially when the Devil wins. 40 - Ferris Wheel's Day Off - Professor Layton and the Curious Village, DS - When Layton and Luke explore St Mystere's abandoned funfair, when a ferris wheel hurtles towards them. 39 - Direct Hit! - Mario Kart Wii, Wii - Hitting someone with a green shell. 38 - Mission Impossible - Mega Man 2 - Once you've beaten every boss and go to Willy's castle and have to fight more bosses. 37 - Switching Dimensions - Super Paper Mario, Wii - The ability to switch from 2D to 3D. 36 - Catch Our Drift? - Metorid Prime, GameCube - The beauty of Phendrana Drifts. 35 - In A Spin - Super Castlevania IV, SNES - The rotating rooms which spun 90 degrees using Mode 7. 34 - The Four, The Merrier - New Super Mario Bros. Wii, Wii - A four player Mario game. 33 - Give Us A Wave - Wave Race 64, N64 - The wave physics used in the game. 32 - In A Blast - Tetris, Game Boy - The ending to Game B mode where a space shuttle blasts into space. 31 - What A Headache - Super Probotector, SNES - End of level 3, where a alien skeleton appears through a hanger door, then when he is defeated and his head gets cut. 30 - Speed Kills - F-Zero X, N64 - Death Race mode and the spin move. 29 - Banjo Hoedown - Banjo Kazooie, N64 - The intro video. 28 - 27 26 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

...And the 10 Worst
10 - Kid Icarus - If you fall, you're dead. 9 - Guitar Hero 5 - Do You Feel Like We Do? 14 minutes, with long moments where you do nothing. 8 - Sonic Unleashed - The werewolf sections. 7 - Super Mario Galaxy - The level where you defeat Bouldergeist without losing one life. 6 - Superman 64 - The whole game. 5 - Need for Speed: Undercover - The terrible Wii port, where cars and trucks appear out of nowhere. 4 - Bomberman - When you pin yourself against the wall at the start of the level. 3 - Metroid Prime 2 - If you aren't stocked up on health when meeting the Bomb Guardian, and saving the game before hand - meaning having to restart the game. 2 - WWE No Mercy - The bug which deleted your save every time you turned it on. 1 - Super Mario Bros: The Lost Levels - World 3-1 when you springboard over the flagpole and into a warp pipe back to World 1-1.