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* ''[[The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (comics)|The Legend of Zelda a Link To The Past]]'' (Volume 32-43)
* ''Mario VS Wario'' (Volumes 44 & 56)
* ''[[Star Fox (comics)|Star
* ''[[Super Metroid]]'' (Volume 57-61)
* ''[[Blast Corps]]'' (Volume 97-99)
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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 (video game)|Resident Evil]] 4'', ''[[Super Smash Bros.]] Brawl'', and ''[[Metroid Prime]] 3: Corruption'' had received a 10.)
* [[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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* [[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: Simon's Quest]], featuring Simon Belmont holding Dracula's severed head, his cut out heart in the background.
* [[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.
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