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* ''Howard and Nester'' / ''Nester's Adventures'' (Volume 1-55 & 231)
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* ''[[The Legend of Zelda:
* ''Mario VS Wario'' (Volumes 44 & 56)
* ''[[Star Fox (
* ''[[Super Metroid]]'' (Volume 57-61)
* ''[[Blast Corps]]'' (Volume 97-99)
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=== This magazine contains examples of... ===
* [[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 ''[[
** 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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** 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 (
* [[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.
* [[Cowboy Bebop
* [[From a Certain Point of View]]: Might not be intentional, but in his Nintendo Power review [[The Angry Video Game Nerd
* [[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.
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: Some writers, such as Scott Pelland, Casey Loe, Steven Grimm and George Sinfield have previously done work for strategy guides, video game translation, etc. This is often pointed out by fans in the "Pulse" section.
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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:
* [[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]]''.
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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 ''[[
* [[Lawyer-Friendly Cameo]]: The [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]] and the [[Looney Tunes|Tasmanian Devil]]'s guest appearances.
* [[Put
* [[Retool]]: Into ''Nester's Adventures'' following Howard's departure.
* [[Ted Baxter]] (Nester)
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