Super Mario Kart
Super Mario Kart made the cover as Nintendo's first kart racer, with Out of This World, Bart's Nightmare, Super Play Action Football, Adventure Island 3 and Power Blade 2 inside. Bionic Commando, Tom & Jerry and Double Dragon 3 covered the Game Boy pages. The Super Power Club launched with this issue, bringing subscribers trading cards and Power Certificates.
You've got quite a temper... If you bring the place down, you will destroy the map also!
Kholdstare
- Out of This World
Power Profile
Celebrity profile · Volume 41
This issue featured an interview with Ken Griffey Jr. — American baseball player (born 1969).
The Mariners' centre fielder and MVP of the 1992 All-Star Game, two years after sharing an outfield with his father, and the last guest the magazine profiled. He'd played since Atari, kept six arcade machines at home, set up an NES on the team plane for 120 days of travel a year, ran up the score on teammates in basketball, and lost to his brother Craig, then in A-ball, every year; his favourite game was Jordan vs. Bird, for the dunk contest. He finished with 630 home runs and went into the Hall of Fame in 2016 with what was then the highest vote share ever. He has since taken up photography seriously, shooting credentialed at MLB games, NFL sidelines and the Indianapolis 500.
When your brother beats you 36 to 6, that's bad.
Ken Griffey Jr., Nintendo Power #41
Sweepstakes
A Clue Mystery Weekend at Great Gorge, New Jersey, with the board game's arrival on Nintendo systems as the excuse. The card introduced a trivia test to the Player's Poll, and the debut question was a softball: name Bart Simpson's youngest sister.
Comics
3 in this issue · Volume 41The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Chapter 10 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 ten, 'To Turtle Rock... and Zelda!' Link sails across the ice in search of a map, which the ice-wizard Kholdstone calls his greatest treasure and raises an army of Stalfos to keep from him; a room full of boneheads later, Link has it. It tells him to strike the rock with thunder, and the Master Sword raised on the summit brings down the lightning that opens Turtle Rock. Inside waits Trinexx, a three-headed serpent of fire and ice — and Roam, who followed Link all this way to see which of them is truly the legendary hero.
Super Mario Adventures
Chapter 10 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 ten. Bowser has the best hypnotist in the country putting the Yoshis into trances and a blushing bride's gown on order. Cornered by the Boos, Mario puts on a doctor's disguise and diagnoses a Big Boo with anthrophobia — a fear of humans going back to the hoodlums who stuffed him in his locker every day — and talks him round with the size of the universe. The ghosts drift off to tell the Koopa King about it, and the brothers have their escort to the castle.
Nester's Adventures
One-page strip
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.
Prince of Persia. A turbaned swordsman tells Nester to fear his steel; Nester laughs in the face of fear, having once snapped a wet towel at terror, and asks if he can lead when it comes to dancing with doom. The one way to win a duel, he's told, is attack, attack, attack — never back down, never run, never parry — which he learns well enough to turn the tables, and is then told cunning was all a pack of lies.
Classified Information
The codes and secrets this issue gave away.
- Tiny Toon Adventures
- Plucky's plunge, Duck Vader update
- American Gladiators
- 10-4 password
- Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
- Force code
- Kirby's Dream Land
- Configuration mode, Extra game
- Contra III: The Alien Wars
- Stand and deliver, Two-fisted fire, Double spin
- Super Smash T.V.
- Secret rooms
- Joe & Mac
- Come and go
- Thunder Spirits
- New configuration
Counselor's Corner
Game Counselors on callReaders wrote in to ask Nintendo Game Counselors questions about the following games: Super Castlevania IV, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, The Battle of Olympus and Kirby's Dream Land.
Top 20
These were the top Nintendo games in Oct 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 | ▲9 Street Fighter II: The World Warrior | ▲3 Dr. Mario | |
| 4 | ▼1 F-ZERO | ▲3 Bart Simpson's Escape from Camp Deadly | |
| 5 | ▼1 Mega Man 4 | ▼2 Battletoads | |
| 6 | ▲2 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Back from the Sewers | ||
| 7 | ▼3 Final Fantasy Adventure | ||
| 8 | ▼2 Final Fight | NEW Yoshi | |
| 9 | ▲3 Mega Man | NEW Super Mario Kart | ▼4 Mega Man: Dr. Wily's Revenge |
| 10 | ▼1 Tetris | — SimCity | |
| 11 | NEW Krusty's Super Fun House | ||
| 12 | NEW Yoshi | ▼4 WWF Super WrestleMania | |
| 13 | ▲2 Mega Man 2 | NEW Super Battletank | |
| 14 | ▼3 Pilotwings | NEW NBA All-Star Challenge 2 | |
| 15 | ▼5 Mega Man 3 | ▼1 Super Adventure Island | ▲3 Super R.C. Pro-Am |
| 16 | ▼7 ActRaiser | — Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters | |
| 17 | ▲1 Metroid | NEW Tetris | |
| 18 | NEW Monopoly | ▼8 Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge | |
| 19 | ▼4 Top Gear | ▼8 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of the Foot Clan | |
| 20 | NEW Super Star Wars | ▼5 Faceball 2000 |