TMNT III: The Manhattan Project
TMNT III: The Manhattan Project made the cover, with The Legend of the Mystical Ninja, Wanderers from Ys, Terminator 2, Rampart and Bart vs. the World inside. The Super Scope 6 got a feature as Nintendo's light-gun bazooka arrived. The Zelda and Super Mario comics continued alongside Nester's Adventures.
Calm down now, Princess, it's up to you--you can marry me, or rule statues!
Bowser issuing his ultimatum to Princess Peach
- TMNT III: The Manhattan Project
- Gradius: The Interstellar Assault
- Super Hunchback
- Asteroids
- Wanderers from Ys
- Super Scope 6
Power Profile
Celebrity profile · Volume 33
This issue featured interviews with Kellie Williams — American actress, Darius McCrary — American actor, rapper, producer (born 1976).
Laura and Eddie Winslow on Family Matters, the siblings of ABC's Friday night and the family Urkel kept crashing. Both were handed Super Off Road for the Super NES and gave it, in Darius's word, the awesomest review; nearly everyone on the show owned an NES or a Super NES, Darius was composing an album, and Kellie described herself as a normal kid who happened to be an actress. Family Matters ran nine seasons. Kellie Shanygne Williams left acting to raise a family and run youth programmes in Washington, D.C.; Darius went on to voice Jazz in the first Transformers film and to a run on The Young and the Restless.
They keep kids out of trouble—they're better than spray-painting walls!
Darius McCrary, Nintendo Power #33
Sweepstakes
A full session at U.S. Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama, then a trip with a guest to Cape Canaveral for a Space Shuttle launch, with dates hostage to NASA's schedule. Second prize was an official Space Camp wristwatch and Absolute's Space Shuttle Project for the NES.
Comics
3 in this issue · Volume 33The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Chapter 2 of 12 · 16 pages
Shotaro Ishinomori's retelling of the Super NES game, drawn in the same year it was released and following Link from the rainy night at the castle to the Dark World.
Chapter two, 'Wise Man's Warning'. With Zelda recaptured and the King, under Agahnim's spell, offering a price on Link's head, Link asks after the Master Sword and hears the legend from an old man in the woods: the ultimate treasure of a prosperous people, its blade tempered to resist evil, sleeping deep in the Lost Woods. Only the pendants can wake it, so Link climbs to the Eastern Palace where the sage Sahasrahla is hiding, takes the Pendant of Courage from its armoured guardians, and swears to rise to the challenge of the pendants and destroy Agahnim.
Super Mario Adventures
Chapter 2 of 12 · 8 pages · from p. 68
Charlie Nozawa's twelve-part comic, in which Bowser proposes to the Princess, Yoshi eats everything in reach and Luigi gets no respect. Collected in a book by Viz the following year.
Chapter two. Out of the monstrous pipe in the palace garden comes Bowser in a Koopa copter, introducing himself with a rap as K-Man Koopa, the kind, kind king, and his proposal is that Princess Toadstool marry him or see her people turned to stone. Mario is struck rigid on the spot — the Minister of Massage is called to slap the sense back into him — and the Princess, thinking she can strike a deal, goes down the pipe after Bowser herself. The brothers plunge in after her, Luigi still wondering about dinner.
Nester's Adventures
One-page strip · from p. 100
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.
Super Castlevania IV, and Simon Belmont is teaching Nester the whip — if you want to destroy Dracula once and for all you have to master it — while Nester notes Simon's tried four times already. Nester's new technique relies on surprise and confusion, mostly his own, wrapping himself up and running from a spiked pendulum, until Simon says he who runs and returns to fight may find his foe has left. Nester says never ask questions of a man wearing leather underwear.
Classified Information
The codes and secrets this issue gave away.
- Tom & Jerry: The Ultimate Game of Cat and Mouse!
- Unlimited mice, Bonus rooms
- Palamedes
- Sound test
- American Gladiators
- Level warp
- Kickle Cubicle
- Sound collection
- Faceball 2000
- Level 10 warp
- Darius Twin
- No villain demo, Safe spot
- SimCity
- Free coverage, Gift conditions, Bank, Zoo, Police and Fire HQ, Windmill, Library, Large park, Railroad station, Expo, Scale model, Fountain, Landfill
Counselor's Corner
Game Counselors on callReaders wrote in to ask Nintendo Game Counselors questions about the following games: Final Fantasy II, ActRaiser, Crystalis, Faceball 2000 and Catrap.
Top 20
These were the top Nintendo games in Feb 1992, 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 | Super NES | Game Boy |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | |||
| 2 | — F-Zero | ▲1 Dr. Mario | |
| 3 | ▲1 Final Fight | ▲2 Mega Man: Dr. Wily's Revenge | |
| 4 | ▲2 Mega Man 3 | ▼1 SimCity | — Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of the Foot Clan |
| 5 | ▲9 Super Bases Loaded | ||
| 6 | ▼1 Dr. Mario | ▼1 ActRaiser | ▲9 Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge |
| 7 | ▲1 Batman | — F-1 Race | |
| 8 | ▲1 Metroid | ▼2 Super R.C. Pro-Am | |
| 9 | ▲3 Crystalis | ▲11 Drakkhen | ▲2 Final Fantasy Adventure |
| 10 | ▲2 Operation C | ||
| 11 | NEW Monopoly | ▼3 Super R-Type | ▼2 Battletoads |
| 12 | ▲1 Tetris | — Gradius III | NEW Tecmo Bowl |
| 13 | |||
| 14 | |||
| 15 | ▲3 Mega Man 2 | ▼2 Faceball 2000 | |
| 16 | NEW Ultraman | NEW Bases Loaded | |
| 17 | ▼4 Nolan Ryan's Baseball | ▼9 Castlevania: The Adventure | |
| 18 | ▼2 Populous | ▼4 Batman | |
| 19 | NEW Mega Man 4 | ||
| 20 | ▼5 HAL's Hole in One Golf | ▼3 Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters |