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[[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:
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If you've been out of the loop for a while, by all means [[Punch Out|subscribe to Nintendo Fun Clu]]-oops, I mean Nintendo Power, or if you want to see the magazine's roots or [[Nostalgia Filter|re-experience your childhood]], allow [[James Rolfe]] to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eegQI9WM6mk&feature=related inject you with a needle of nostalgia.]
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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, [[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...
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* [[Take That]]: To other gaming magazines.
'''''Howard & Nester'' / ''Nester's Adventures'''''
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