I got some more games from Ebay this week :D I also started buying Nintendo Power magazines, and in this lot there was a Nintendo Power issue with TMNT III. I also got a book called “How to Win at Nintendo”, written in 1988 by Jeff Rovin. It actually only has 30 games in it, described with the story and strategies to winning. Including games like Arkanoid, Balloon Fight, Castlevania, Commando, Ghosts n’ Goblins, Gradius, Kung Fu, Metroid, Mega Man, Zelda II and many other big titles. However there’s no pictures, only text describing everything. I’m not much of a reader, I need pictures to look at to stay focused >_<
The games I bought were Millipede, Wurm, Lone Ranger, Xenophobe, Friday the 13th, Dungeon Magic, Joust, Twin Eagle and Predator. Wurm is awesome <3
Well, in this post I think I will take a closer look at the Nintendo Power issue, volume 33 from 1992. (all images are clickable to view full size)
You just gotta love Nintendo Power. 16 pages of a comic about Zelda a Link to the Past, 8 pages Super Mario Adventure comic, Nester’s Adventure and a bunch of game walkthroughs, guides, pictures, game promotions, ads from the 80’s and early 90’s and more!
Here’s the Zelda comic for those of you who want to read it ^^ All 16 pages, large enough to read it clearly :D
Now I’m actually not that into the Zelda franchise.. I know many ppl think I’m weird now, but it’s a long story and I basically just never got into it.. but I know there’s a lot of ppl who do love Zelda so this was for all you hardcore Nintendo fanboys, and girls ^___^
Now this is some hardcore advertisement for the Nintendo Power!
And what the hell do they mean by this? Hook your SNES to your NES?! I guess they just wanted people to keep buying games for both systems..
They feature a lot of games in this issue, such as Gradius, one of my favorites ^_^
Another featured games is Super Hunchback for Gameboy, never heard of it. Has anybody played it? There’s apparently many bells to ring…
And T2, “He said he’d be back”, he sure did!
And here’s the Super Mario Adventure comic for those of you who are interested in reading it ^_^
There’s also a 10 page long walkthrough for the game “The Legend of the Mystical Ninja” for Super Nintendo. I haven’t heard of that one either. It looks kinda fun though, however all the stages seem to have the same shade of orange throughout the game, usually SNES games were more colorful..
The poster for this Nintendo Power volume was Lemmings:
Super Scope was the shit back in ’92!
And all the children playing Gradius wanted to become an Astronaut! ;D
The Nester’s Adventure cartoon is only 1 page, it’s quite good though. This one is about Castlevania IV:
And last but not least, here’s the Top 20 of the NES, SNES and GB games in February 1992!
There’s a bunch of other stuff in this issue, like walkthroughs of TMNT III, G.I. Joe, Rampart, The Simpsons Bart vs the World, Asteroids, Q*Bert and Wanderers from Ys. If there’s anyone of these in particular that you’d like to see then just leave a comment and I’ll post some more pics :D
Retro Video Gaming 
Friday The 13th = Fail
ALTHOUGH…as a kid I would rent it over and over and over…some sick obsession with it’s horrible gameplay. Lol. Go figure!
Haha yeah, I barely tried it yet, though I’ve seen AVGN’s review.. don’t know if I should put myself through it ;D
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I have Friday the 13th too lol, it’s pretty bad and confusing but entertaining.
Legend of the Mystical Ninja is the Super Nintendo entry in the Ganbare Goemon series that was on the Famicom in Japan :) It’s pretty cool actually, I just got it last week :p
Oh cool! I like those games, I have them for the Famicom ^_^
So have you heard of the Super Hunchback for Gameboy?? :D
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lol nope I’ve never heard of that Hunchback game, wonder if it got cancelled before it was released…
did a quick check on wiki about Super Hunchback and it says “Despite coverage by the popular Nintendo Power video game magazine, the game sold relatively few copies in North America and was not widely released.” Looks like it came out in 1992, probably pretty rare now to get if it didn’t sell very well.
aww, that’s a shame. It sounded like fun ringing the bells ;D haha
I’ll keep a lookout for it though,, would be cool to have ^_^
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I posted a short video here on youtube if you wanna check out Legend of the Mystical Ninja :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uaFwNX33yk&feature=youtube_gdata
Mystical Ninja looked like a lot of fun! It’s great that you can play co-op too! I will have to get it ^_^
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There are 4 Ganbare Goemon games on Super Famicom.
Super Hunchback? what? lol Nintendo Power was always full of weird stuff like that xD I wonder if the content varied depending on the country you were… our Nintendo Power magazine sucked haha but because we couldn’t get all the rewards or Nintendo Club points xD I’ll browse my stuff see if I can find some :D
We never got Nintendo Power in Sweden, we had something called the Nintendo Magazine but it only existed between 1990-1994..
So I have to buy them all now, through ebay, <3 Ebay ^_^
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I remember beating “TMNT 3: The Manhattan Project” back at daycare. Myself and a girl, maybe 2 years older than me then, spend hours in front of the TV & the NES to complete the WHOLE THING. Good times…
Awesome ^_^ My daycare didn’t have videogames :(
I’ll see if my bf wants to beat TMNT 3 with me, I just bought it off Ebay ^__^
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The Legend of the Mystical Ninja is a very colorful (and great) game. There is probably something wrong with Super Power’s pics.