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{{quote|Get the power!
[[Title Drop|Nintendo Power!]]
[[Guide Dang It|Get the clues]]
[[Game Breaker|That you can use!]]
Nintendo Power!
Higher and higher,
Fighting your way
[[Bullet Hell|Through enemy fire!]]|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GbaFAF7iME Classic Nintendo Power commercial]}}
Starting in 1988, one of the longest-running video game magazines there is, '''Nintendo Power''' is a magazine that focuses solely on games for [[Nintendo]] consoles. Starting as a replacement for the Nintendo Fun Club News, the magazine initially contained game strategies for most of its run until its reboot during the late [[Game Cube]] era. It also contains news, previews, reviews, fan letters, and "community" sections related to Nintendo games. Originally published by Nintendo of America themselves, it is now currently published by Future US and edited by Chris Slate, and remains one of the most popular in North America.
The magazine is also known for its semi-regular comics and manga advertising new games. These include:
* ''Howard and Nester'' / ''Nester's Adventures'' (Volume 1-55 & 231)
* ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda:
* ''Mario VS Wario'' (Volumes 44 & 56)
* ''[[Star Fox (
* ''[[Super Metroid]]'' (Volume 57-61)
* ''[[Blast Corps]]'' (Volume 97-99)
If you've been out of the loop for a while, by all means [[Punch
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* [[Alien Autopsy]]: The walkthrough guide for ''[[Body Harvest]]'' for the N64 includes one level where the [[Player Character]] has to rescue a captured [[The Greys|Grey]] from Roswell. One picture caption for the level humorously tries to guilt trip readers into sympathizing with the alien and make them feel bad "for having laughed at that alien autopsy video."
* [[April Fools' Day]]: On April issues, they have printed articles on [[Super Mario Bros.|Warp Pipe]] technology (see Tube Travel below), [[Pokémon|Pikachu]] as an [[The Unintelligible|unintelligible]] Y2K expert, the Headless Snowman from ''[[
** In regards to the Warp Pipe technology one, at least two readers actually thought it was for real, and when their letters were printed asking how it turned out, the magazine made no mention of the fact that it was just a joke.
* [[American Kirby Is Hardcore]]: Their [http://video-games.wikia.com/wiki/Nintendo_Power_54:_Secret_of_Mana coverage] of ''[[Secret of Mana]].'' More giant dragons, less of the cutesy sprites in the actual game.
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** According to a retrospective in the 50th issue, they were originally going to name the magazine Power Play, but it was already taken.
* [[Author Avatar]]: Writer Alan Averill has been represented in photos as a Slime from ''[[Dragon Quest]]''. The magazine has jokingly stated that he is, in fact, a slime; the joke was even taken to the point where pictures were published of a Slime plushie wearing a knit cap in front of a GBA SP claiming that the slime was in fact writer Alan Averill. The writers are currently represented by Miis, and Chris Hoffman's part of the letters section is headed by an 8-bit sprite of himself.
* [[Broke the Rating Scale]]: Averted. Editor Chris Slate responded once that he had been tempted to give some games a 10.5 out 10, but won't because it will permanently taint the scale by making 10.5 the new standard. (At the time, only ''[[Resident Evil (
* [[Brother Chuck]]: Some writers, and even entire ''sections'', can disappear without explanation.
* [[Butt Monkey]]: Chris Shepperd. To a lesser extent, Steve Thomason, and to an even lesser extent, Justin Cheng.
* [[
* [[From a Certain Point of View]]: Might not be intentional, but in his Nintendo Power review [[The Angry Video Game Nerd
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: Probably has something to do with the magazine no longer being published by Nintendo, but rather by Future US. Even when it was published by Nintendo, there was still traces of this.
* [[Hey,
* [[Loony Fan]]: Somebody once sent in a collage consisting entirely of Chris Shepperd pictures. After that, he swore he'd try and cut down on the number of times his face appears in the magazine.
** Another claimed to be attracted to writer Andy Myers after seeing a photo of him the previous issue. The photo was of him [[Squick|holding a (fake) severed ear]].
* [[Long Runner]]: Been running for almost 24 years, 12<ref>6 until 1990</ref> issues a year, with bonus holiday issues starting in 2007. Still shows no sign of ending.
* [[Mascot]]: Nester. Issues released after the [[Nintendo 3DS]] even contain a giant QR code for a Nester Mii at the end of the Pulse section, and this was pointed out in a fan letter in the August 2011 issue.
* [[Moral Guardians]]: Despite being developed by Rare (a Nintendo second party and, at that point, industry darling), the magazine did not cover the M-rated [[Dead Baby Comedy]] platformer ''[[
** Infamously, their second issue had the [[Moral Guardians]] crying foul over the cover: a [[Nightmare Fuel]] laden representation of [[Castlevania II:
* [[Not So Different]]: Initially they had a rivalry with the now-canceled magazine ''Sega Visions'' thanks to the [[Console Wars]]. But then the [[Wii]] era came and Sega began partnering with Nintendo and rereleasing their old games on its Virtual Console, with many lampshades from the staff about how the magazine was now covering more Sega games than Nintendo games!
* [[Perverse Sexual Lust]]: Some of the writers seem to have crushes on Ada from ''[[Resident Evil]]''.
* [[Phony Article]]: The SNES vs Genesis comparison articles filled with fake stats and testimonials, which started running towards the endpoint in the SNES's life.
** [http://gonintendo.com/viewstory.php?id=129182 Here it is.]{{Dead link}} "Blast (processing) from the past", indeed.
* [[Pigeonholed Voice Actor|Pigeon Holed Writer]]: For example, Chris Slate tends to review major releases, Steve Thomason reviews Sega games, Chris Hoffman reviews Capcom games, and Casey Loe reviews RPGs. There are several exceptions, however.
* [[Planet of Steves]]: While there is indeed only one "Steve" (presently), there are lots of Chrises. There's even a [[Distaff Counterpart|Christine]] in there.
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* [[Promoted Fanboy]]: Steven Grimm, an Animal Crossing fan, has been spotted in the credits for ''[[Animal Crossing]]: City Folk'' and ''[[Mario Party]] 8''.
* [[Running Gag]]: Quite a few.
* [[Self
* [[Spin
* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]: The magazine is actually a replacement for the Nintendo Fun Club News magazine, which focused only on games developed by Nintendo.
* [[Take That]]: To other gaming magazines.
* [[Tube Travel]]: Years before ''Project M'' the ''[[Super Smash Bros.|Brawl]]'' mod, there was [http://www.dkoldies.com/blog/april-fools-5-incredible-nintendo-power-pranks/ "Project M" the April Fool's joke], a mock article about research toward ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]''-inspired pipe travel.
'''''Howard & Nester'' / ''Nester's Adventures'''''
* [[But Now I Must Go]]: Howard's departure from the comic has him making such a speech to Nester, leaving him with his bowtie as a memento. In the first ''Nester's Adventures'' comic, Nester reveals that the bowtie was a clip-on.
* [[Captain Ersatz]]: One installment has Howard accompanying a duck to the moon. The duck's name is never given, but from the fact that the episode in question was based on the ''[[
* [[Lawyer
* [[Put
* [[Retool]]: Into ''Nester's Adventures'' following Howard's departure.
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