Mega Man in Dr. Wily's Revenge
Mega Man in Dr. Wily's Revenge became the first Game Boy game on the cover, with Ninja Gaiden III, Dragon Warrior III, Final Fantasy Legend II and Darkman inside. Nester's Adventures debuted, the comic carrying on after Howard Phillips's departure from Nintendo. A World of Nintendo department debuted in the Info Zone.
She'd lose her head if it wasn't fastened on.
Nester regarding his mom losing her car keys
- Mega Man in Dr. Wily's Revenge
Power Profile
Celebrity profile · Volume 27
This issue featured an interview with Macaulay Culkin — American actor and musician (born 1980).
Eleven years old and the star of Home Alone, the biggest film of 1990, interviewed at Disneyland while opening a video-game arcade there with Mickey Mouse and beaten on stage by a Nintendo World Championships finalist. He had been playing since he was three, was allowed two hours a day, and on set the director had used Nintendo as the reward for learning his lines, which he did in about fifteen minutes. My Girl, Home Alone 2 and Richie Rich followed, then he quit acting at fourteen. He has drifted back on his own terms since, fronting the Velvet Underground pizza-parody band The Pizza Underground, appearing in American Horror Story, and receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2023.
Mack could play Nintendo games if he'd memorized his lines. He'd go through the entire script in about 15 minutes.
Chris Columbus, director of Home Alone, Nintendo Power #27
Sweepstakes
The winner got the actual time-traveling phone booth from the Bill & Ted movies installed at home, with a working telephone and a $1,200 gift certificate to cover the bills at $100 a month for a year. Second prize was Bill & Ted's Excellent Video Game Adventure on NES with the movie on tape, and jerseys came third.
Comics
Nester's Adventures · Volume 27Nester's Adventures
2-page strip · from p. 20
Nester carried on alone after Howard left Nintendo in 1991, walking into one game a month and finding out the hard way that reading the strategy pages would have helped.
Nester's mom has lost her car keys again, and he searches the way Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves taught him: look in the least obvious places, since power-up apples hide in dark shadows and items turn up behind columns and under rugs. That means inside the roast chicken and the dog's mouth before he finds them in the car door, where nobody would have thought to look. His reward is being reminded of the chores list — lawn, garbage, fence — while his friend has painted the fence in his absence.
Classified Information
The codes and secrets this issue gave away.
- The Hunt for Red October
- Powered-up sub, Level skip, Tons of subs
- Battletoads
- Toad code, Webfooted warps
- Vice: Project Doom
- Items-a-plenty
- The Simpsons: Bart vs. the Space Mutants
- Unlimited Barts
- Ikari III: The Rescue
- Two player continue
- NES Open Tournament Golf
- Second chance stroke
- Mega Man 3
- Freeze and fire
Counselor's Corner
Game Counselors on callReaders wrote in to ask Nintendo Game Counselors questions about the following games: The Simpsons: Bart vs. the Space Mutants, The Lone Ranger, Dragon Warrior II, Ultima: Quest of the Avatar and Battletoads.
Top 30
These were the top Nintendo games in Aug 1991, as voted by Nintendo Power readers. Arrows show the move since the previous issue's chart; the peak is the best position the game had reached by then.
| # | NES |
|---|---|
| 1 | |
| 2 | |
| 3 | ▲1 Mega Man 3 |
| 4 | |
| 5 | |
| 6 | ▲2 Tetris |
| 7 | ▲2 Crystalis |
| 8 | |
| 9 | ▼3 StarTropics |
| 10 | |
| 11 | |
| 12 | |
| 13 | ▲5 Mega Man 2 |
| 14 | |
| 15 | |
| 16 | ▲11 Maniac Mansion |
| 17 | |
| 18 | |
| 19 | |
| 20 | |
| 21 | |
| 22 | NEW Monopoly |
| 23 | NEW The Immortal |
| 24 | ▼10 Dragon Warrior |
| 25 | |
| 26 | NEW Dick Tracy |
| 27 | |
| 28 | |
| 29 | ▲1 DuckTales |
| 30 |