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I'm pretty sure that they just took photos of a TV (like a good PVM monitor, not a wood-grain cabinet Zenith), at least in the beginning. There's no doubt that

• goialoq 9y ago
  Reading that magazine was sometimes almost/more fun than playing the game -- you get all the art and logic without the frustration and sisyphean replay
• nobodyorother 9y ago
  If you look at the old player guides (the Super Mario World guide comes to mind) you'll actually find a couple mis-pastes where the image was laid out or cut badly before being photographed for the magazine. It took a fair amount of work to only get pictures of the level's relevant features (and to always crop out the actual player).