Way back in 1995, and even earlier than that, I had read about fanmade magazines, called fanzines. I wanted to do something similar, but knowing I would have no chance of publishing something similar to what I has seen, being hand drawn and such, I decided to take a different route and create probably one of the first ever digital Nintendo fanzines. I managed to crank out 6 issues before I grew tired of making it. The World Wide Web was seriously taking shape by this time too and I began learning some HTML programming. Now I was suddenly able to include pictures and have a much better layout, by the standards at that time I might add.

The NES Journal had over 60 readers on the distribution list back in the day. Unfortunately my English at the time was horrific, but I had fun making the fanzine, even though most of it was just ripoffs from magazines to be honest. Later someone else took over the NES Journal production,  unfortunately I have forgotten who and at least a couple of issues were made, but I'm affraid they're long lost.

NES Journal Issue #1
NES Journal Issue #2
NES Journal Issue #3
NES Journal Issue #4
NES Journal Issue #5
NES Journal Issue #6

So NES Journal was the ground stone for NES World, and I was actually contacted by an Australian publication at the time, who wanted to know a bit more about me and the fanzine I was making.  

Now fast forward to 1998 and NES Journal got a short revival, god knows why. As somone else had taken over the NES Journal, I wanted to call the new fanzine the "NES WORLD News Letter". However as the year was now was 1998, there were no NES news to write about, so the fanzine was renamed to NES Letter. No more than 3 issues were created though, why?... the limits of a text-only fanzine just wasn't fun, and maybe because there was no need for such a fanzine either, not from me at least as I could just have used NESWORLD.

NESWORLD NESLetter #1
NESWORLD NESLetter #2
NESWORLD NESLetter #3

During a 2026 revamp of NESWORLD I did think of getting rid of these files, but I guess for now they will stay as relics of the past, projects that entertained me some 30 years ago.