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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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* [[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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