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Nintendo Power Retrospectives: Part 97
The Best of the Rest for Nintendo Power Year 7 continues with another 10 games.
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Nintendo Power Retrospectives: Part 96
This Christmas we start the Best of the Rest of Nintendo Power’s 7th year.
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Nintendo Power Retrospectives: Part 95
This issue has the results of the 7th annual Nintendo Power Awards.
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Nintendo Power Retrospectives: Part 94
This week we have a bunch of movie licensed games and the launch of a major puzzle franchise that continues to this day.
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Nintendo Power Retrospectives: Part 93
We return to our regular episodes with two streetball basketball games – one with NBA stars, one with Looney Tunes characters. If there was only some way to get them to meet…
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Nintendo Power Retrospectives: Part 91
The Play It Loud era continues with a pair of Kirby titles.
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Nintendo Power Retrospectives: Part 90
We return to our regular issues of Nintendo Power with the first issue of the Play It Loud era.
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Nintendo Power Retrospectives: Part 89 – Donkey Kong Country Exposed
In this episode, I’m giving my thoughts on the Donkey Kong Country Exposed video that was sent out to Nintendo Power subscribers, alongside the last issue of Nintendo Power.
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Nintendo Power Retrospectives: Part 88
This time we have what might be the last new NES game to be featured in Nintendo Power.
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Nintendo Power Retrospectives – Part 87
This time we’ve got Rare’s first big title for the SNES – Donkey Kong Country.
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Nintendo Power Retrospectives – Part 86
This time we have a SNES sequel to an NES game, and another title from Quintet.
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Nintendo Power Retrospectives: Part 85
A whole bunch of sequels this issue, with Mortal Kombat II, Super Bomberman II, and Pocky and Rocky 2.

Nintendo Power Retrospectives: Part 84
A whole bunch of licensed games (and a couple brawlers) this issue.
We come to our final revision of Street Fighter II for the SNES, along with the newest JRPG after a long gap. Continue reading
We return to our regularly scheduled issues of Nintendo Power with a lot of SNES games. Continue reading
We wrap up the Best of the Rest with some movie licensed games and fighting games. Continue reading
We start the Best of the Rest Part 3, with a plethora of strategy games and RPGs.
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Games Reviewed (Links are eBay Referral links – buying anything through those links helps support the show):
- Ultima V
– FCI
- Dungeon Master
– JVC
- The Journey Home
– Wolfteam
- Lufia & The Fortress of Doom
– Natsume
- Wizardry V
– Capcom
- Utopia
– Jaleco
- P.T.O.
– Koei
- Romance of the 3 Kingdoms III
– Koei
I continue with the Best of the Rest with a slew of action games.
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Games Reviewed: (Links are eBay Affiliate Links – using them helps support the site)
- Wolfchild
– Virgin Games
- First Samurai
– Kemco
- Super Nova
– Taito
- Sunset Riders
– Konami
- Sengoku Denshou
– SNK
- Alien vs. Predator (GB)
– Activision
- Lethal Enforcers
– Konami
- Legend
– Seika
- Pirates of Dark Water
– Sunsoft
We start the Best of the Rest Part 1, with a whole bunch of platformers.
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Games Reviewed: (Links are eBay Affiliate Links)
- Family Dog – Malibu Games
- Wizard Of Oz – SETA
- Dream TV – Triffix Entertainment
- Pink Goes To Hollywood – TecMagik
- Time Slip – Tokai Communications
- Out To Lunch – Microprose
- Popeye 2 – Nintendo
- Asterix & Obelix – Infogrames
- Alfred Chicken – Mindscape
- Mr. Nutz – Ocean
- Super James Pond – Ocean
We wrap up Year 6 of Nintendo Power with a classic title, and the results of the Nintendo Power Awards
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Games Reviewed: (Links are eBay Affiliate links – using them gets me a commission and helps support the site)
- Super Metroid – Nintendo
- King of Dragons – Capcom
- Joe & Mac 2 – Data East
- Barkley Shut Up and Jam! – Accolade
- Bill Walsh College Football – EA
- MLBPA Baseball – EA
- Hardball III – Accolade
- Super Bases Loaded 3 – Jaleco
- ESPN Baseball – Sony Imagesoft
- Suzuka 8 Hours – Namco
- Natsume Championship Wrestling – Natsume
- Champions World Class Soccer – Acclaim
- Super Goal! 2 – Jaleco
- Spectre – Cybersoft
- Knights of the Round – Capcom
- Black Bass – Hot B
- Bonk’s Adventure – Hudson

Nintendo Power Retrospectives – Part 76
We’re one issue away from the end of Nintendo Power Year 6, with issue #58. Continue reading
We move on to issue #58 of Nintendo Power, featuring Wario’s first starring role.
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Games Reviewed:
NBA Jam – Midway
Wolfenstein 3D – ID
Stunt Race FX – Nintendo
R-Type III – Irem
Metal Marines – Namco
Flintstones: Treasure of Sierra Madrock – Taito
Super Mario Land 3: Wario Land – Nintendo
This time we start 1994 with issue #57 of Nintendo Power, with another Looney Tunes licensed game, and a winter sports game roundup.
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Games Reviewed:
- Bugs Bunny in Rabbit Rampage – Sunsoft
- Young Merlin – Virgin Interactive
- Skyblazer – Sony
- Inspector Gadget – Hudson
- Winter Extreme – Electro Brain
- Winter Olympic Games – US Gold
- Riddick Bowe Boxing – Extreme Entertainment
- Brett Hull Hockey – Accolade
- Pro Sport Hockey – Jaleco
- Sports Illustrated Football & Baseball – Malibu Interactive
- ABC Monday Night Football – Data East
- Relief Pitcher – Left Field Entertainment
- BCA Championship Pool – Mindscape
- Side Pocket – Data East
- Lester The Unlikely – DTMC Games
- Choplifter III – Ocean Software
- Arcade’s Revenge – LJN
- Bart & The Beanstalk – Acclaim
- StarTropics II – Nintendo