Lemmings
Lemmings took the cover, with Metroid II: Return of Samus, DragonStrike, Star Wars, Top Gear, F1 ROC and Krusty's Super Fun House inside. An Arcade Update feature returned to the coin-op scene. NBA All-Star Challenge 2 and Stanley: The Search for Dr. Livingston filled out the features.
Many evil men from your world were drawn here. They were transformed into monsters because of their evil thoughts and emotions. I was one of them...
The tree, telling his tale to Link
- Krusty's Super Fun House
- NBA All-Star Challenge 2
- Top Gear
- F1 ROC: Race Of Champions
Power Profile
Celebrity profile · Volume 37
This issue featured an interview with David Faustino — American actor (born 1974).
Bud Bundy on Married… with Children, six seasons in, a blue belt in Tae Kwon Do and first cast at three months old. He insisted he was nothing like Bud, watched the show as a fan, and got Contra III before the shops did, though his little brother Michael, whom the neighbourhood called Mario, was the real player in the house; a producer had handed the whole cast Game Boys for a tour, and the flight was apparently a sight. He played Bud for all eleven seasons, then found a second signature role a generation of kids knows him for: the voice of Mako in The Legend of Korra.
Before you know it someone says, 'Looks like it's going to be a Nintendo night.'
David Faustino, Nintendo Power #37
Sweepstakes
The actual Street Fighter II: Champion Edition arcade machine, valued at $3,500, for the winner's living room. Second prize was Capcom's Super NES version of the arcade smash, and the third-prize jerseys were, the page assured, heavy-duty 100% cotton.
Comics
3 in this issue · Volume 37The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Chapter 6 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 six. Agahnim tells Link he has just witnessed Zelda's last moments and freezes him like a statue with his magic, but the Master Sword hums in Link's hand and breaks the spell, and the wizard falls — well met, hero. His defeat restores nothing: with his final breath he sends Link after Zelda into the Dark World, where a pig-faced monster who was once a man from the Light World explains what happened here. This was the Golden Land where the Triforce was hidden, until Ganondorf the thief stumbled on it, and his wish turned it to a land of evil; to restore it, Link must defeat the thief and reclaim the Triforce.
Super Mario Adventures
Chapter 6 of 12 · 8 pages · from p. 62
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 six. The wedding: Bowser has Mario captive and Luigi, in the Princess's tiara and Floyd's cosmetics, takes her place at the altar, which goes as well as a Koopa wedding can. The real Princess, waking from her fall, remembers Mario crash-landing at the castle and turns herself in to keep Luigi's plan alive, telling Bowser she's fallen for him after all. Mario, meanwhile, is bound for the Piranhas — but Bowser knows a good place that delivers, and the chapter ends on a pizza party.
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.
RoboNester, the tin-plated lawman of RoboCop 3, patrols where no ordinary officer dares, arresting a dog for defacing a fire hydrant and walking through gunfire, and his hardened exoskeleton withstands everything but rust — the BIOS readout puts his brain at 2% rust damage, with a power-up capsule in the next block. He knows from the game that a power-up passed can't be gone back for, so he takes the ledges slowly, reciting 'you have the right to an attorney and a towel by jury' until the technicians open his head: rusted brains again.
Classified Information
The codes and secrets this issue gave away.
- Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
- Complete passwords
- Rockin' Kats
- Bonus lives
- Dynowarz
- Dyno-change
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project
- Stage select and more
- Faria
- A good start
- Turrican
- Cheat mode
- Faceball 2000
- Nine 1-Ups
- Super Soccer Champ
- Tough team
- Smash T.V.
- Bonus chances
- Super Soccer
- Nintendo team challenge, Spectator sport
Counselor's Corner
Game Counselors on callReaders wrote in to ask Nintendo Game Counselors questions about the following games: Final Fantasy II, Mega Man 4, Adventures of Lolo 3 and Prince of Persia.
Top 20
These were the top Nintendo games in Jun 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 | |||
| 3 | ▼1 F-Zero | ▲1 Battletoads | |
| 4 | ▼1 Dr. Mario | ||
| 5 | — Mega Man: Dr. Wily's Revenge | ||
| 6 | ▲1 Final Fight | ▲3 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Back from the Sewers | |
| 7 | ▼2 SimCity | ▼1 Final Fantasy Adventure | |
| 8 | ▲1 Dr. Mario | ▲4 Bart Simpson's Escape from Camp Deadly | |
| 9 | ▼2 Tetris | ||
| 10 | ▼2 Metroid | ▼3 Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge | |
| 11 | ▲1 John Madden Football | ▲3 Faceball 2000 | |
| 12 | ▼3 Pilotwings | ||
| 13 | ▼2 Crystalis | NEW WWF Super WrestleMania | |
| 14 | NEW Mega Man II | ||
| 15 | ▲3 Mega Man 2 | NEW Super Smash TV | ▲1 Operation C |
| 16 | ▼8 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of the Foot Clan | ||
| 17 | ▼4 Mega Man 3 | — F-1 Race | |
| 18 | ▼3 Lemmings | ▼7 Super R.C. Pro-Am | |
| 19 | ▼2 True Golf Classics: Waialae Country Club | ▼6 Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters | |
| 20 | ▼5 Monopoly | NEW Joe & Mac | ▼2 Home Alone |