Star Fox
Star Fox took the cover as the first Super FX chip game, with a roundup of Super Fighting Games, Pocky & Rocky, SimEarth, MechWarrior and Congo's Caper inside. A feature called The Koei Connection looked at the strategy publisher. Kid Dracula, Joe & Mac and The New Chessmaster covered the Game Boy pages.
It really ruffles my feathers the way Fox always gets the last shot.
Falco
- MechWarrior
- Kid Dracula
- SimEarth
- Congo's Caper
- Super Black Bass
- Top Rank Tennis
- The New Chessmaster
Sweepstakes
A four-day trip to Camp Rollerblade in Los Angeles for the winner and a guest, valued at $5,000, with a Nintendo Power jersey to go shreddin' in for the runners-up. The same page announced the Mario Paint contest winners, led by Stephen D. Miller of Tucson, whose five video entries left the staff blown away.
Comics
2 in this issue · Volume 47Nester's Adventures
One-page strip · from p. 35
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.
Star Fox Team tryouts, the month the game arrived. Asked whether he can pilot a ship through a four-dimensional combat vortex of space, time and really ticked-off lizards, Nester says he can with his eyes closed and a dead skunk for camouflage; told to follow Slippy's lead through the first four arches for the double-shot laser, he knows exactly where he's going and flies into the scenery. General Pepper, lolly in hand, doubts he really needs any help — he seems to have an inflated opinion of his own abilities already.
Star Fox
Chapter 3 of 11 · 12 pages · from p. 48
Benimaru Itoh's serial ran alongside the game, with the Arwing pilots as the magazine drew them: Fox, Falco, Peppy and Slippy against Andross, with a subplot the game never had.
Chapter three. The Arwings have flown straight into an Imperial trap and a battle attack carrier is closing; Fara takes out the garbage until an ion missile knocks her out of the fight, and Fox makes a world-class save with the anti-grav sail before finishing the carrier with a Nova bomb. Falco grumbles that Fox always gets the last shot; Peppy calls him a real Renaissance Fox, like his father. Back on Corneria, General Pepper begins the story of Fox Senior — until Andross drops in by telekinetic amplifier to promise that young McCloud's soul will be shattered like glass.
Classified Information
The codes and secrets this issue gave away.
- Q*bert 3
- Bonus levels, Background show
- SimCity
- Erase saved data
- Sküljagger: Revolt of the Westicans
- Hidden areas
- Avenging Spirit
- Expert level
- Ninja Boy
- Continue code
- James Bond Jr.
- Sound test and more
- Might & Magic: Secret of the Inner Sanctum
- Items change, Best items
Counselor's Corner
Game Counselors on callReaders wrote in to ask Nintendo Game Counselors questions about the following games: Krusty's Super Fun House, Out of This World, Might & Magic: Secret of the Inner Sanctum and King's Quest V.
Top 20
These were the top Nintendo games in Apr 1993, 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.
| # | Super NES | Game Boy | NES |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | — Street Fighter II: The World Warrior | ||
| 2 | |||
| 3 | ▲2 Tetris | ||
| 4 | NEW Star Fox | ▲1 Mega Man 4 | |
| 5 | NEW Marip Paint | ▲2 Dr. Mario | |
| 6 | ▼1 NCAA Basketball | ▲14 Mega Man III | ▼1 Mega Man 4 |
| 7 | NEW NHLPA Hockey 93 | ▼1 Faceball 2000 | ▼3 Battletoads |
| 8 | ▼5 Kirby's Dream Land | ▲1 Tetris | |
| 9 | |||
| 10 | ▲2 John Madden Football '93 | ▲4 Bart Simpson's Escape from Camp Deadly | ▲1 Mega Man 3 |
| 11 | NEW Bulls vs Blazers and the NBA Playoffs | NEW Prince of Persia | ▼1 Dr. Mario |
| 12 | ▼4 F-ZERO | ▲7 Final Fantasy Adventure | |
| 13 | ▼3 Road Runner's Death Valley Rally | ▼3 F-1 Race | ▲5 Monopoly |
| 14 | |||
| 15 | ▼7 Mega Man: Dr. Wily's Revenge | ||
| 16 | NEW Wing Commander | ▼1 Mega Man II | |
| 17 | NEW Equinox | ▼1 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of the Foot Clan' | |
| 18 | ▼5 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Back from the Sewers | NEW Maniac Mansion | |
| 19 | ▼12 Metroid | ||
| 20 | ▼7 SimCity | NEW Super R.C. Pro-Am |