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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]}}
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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 ''[[Super Mario 64]]'' [[A Day in the Limelight|getting his own game]] over Luigi, an interview with [[Donkey Kong]], a series of letters complaining about their contest prizes, etc...
** 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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* [[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.
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* [[From a Certain Point of View]]: Might not be intentional, but in his Nintendo Power review [[The Angry Video Game Nerd|AVGN]] pointed out some interesting wording in reviews of bad games.
* [[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.
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* [[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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* [[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.
== The comics that ran in the magazine contained examples of ==
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'''''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 ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]'' [[NES]] game, it can be assumed that he is supposed to be Scrooge McDuck.
* [[Lawyer-Friendly Cameo]]: The [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]] and the [[Looney Tunes|Tasmanian Devil]]'s guest appearances.
* [[Put on a Bus]]: Howard after his real-life counterpart (Howard Phillips) left the magazine.
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