Secret of Mana
Secret of Mana took the cover, with a Super NES sports scene, Ultima: Runes of Virtue II, Kirby's Pinball Land and Gear Works inside. The Info Zone announced Project Reality, the Silicon Graphics partnership that would become the Nintendo 64. TMNT: Tournament Fighters and ActRaiser 2 also appeared.
I didn't realize I was so popular!", "Don't let it go to your head! They just really hated Andross!
Falco and Fox, regarding Papetoon's citizens celebrating their heroics
- Kirby's Pinball Land
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters
- Aero The Acro-Bat
- ActRaiser 2
- Ultima: Runes of Virtue II
- Gear Works
- Pac-Man/Ms. Pac-Man
Sweepstakes
The winner and a guest flew to the 1994 NHL All-Star Game, a trip valued at $5,000. The card asked whether readers ever called the Game Play Counselors, and the trivia test wanted to know how many teeth a pack of five velociraptors has if one has 934.
Comics
2 in this issue · Volume 54Nester'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.
Super Empire Strikes Back on Hoth, where Luke asks whether Nester knows how to handle an ice wampa — with gloves, right? Nester's plan is to jump and spin over its freezing breath and whack it with his lightsaber; Luke docks him points for sloppy form and then shows perfect form, a nine, leaving Nester frozen in a block of ice. That's cold.
Star Fox
Chapter 10 of 11 · 12 pages · from p. 56
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 ten. Papetoon's greatest sculptor is carving a monument to the team's bravery — Falco thinks his looks like a chicken — when Slippy notices that Herbert, the android pig, is gone. On Venom the Andross clone's fleet departs for Papetoon while the heroes are at a banquet and a crêpe-eating contest, the planetary detector array reports warships that cannot exist, and the lizards land at a core base on the surface. Two of the ships are blasted on the way to the Arwings; three is Fox's lucky number, and the fastest three make a break for it.
Classified Information
The codes and secrets this issue gave away.
- B.O.B.
- Powered up start
- Pocky & Rocky
- Stage select code
- Super Ninja Boy
- Bonus password
- E.V.O.: Search for Eden
- Human body, Mermaid body
- Super Bomberman
- Micro Bomberman, Sound test
- Street Fighter II: The World Warrior
- Nothing code
- Test Drive II: The Duel
- Customized cars
- Raging Fighter
- Player vs. Player
- The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
- Grabbing goods, Weird warp
Counselor's Corner
Game Counselors on callReaders wrote in to ask Nintendo Game Counselors questions about the following games: Out of This World, Dungeon Master, Kirby's Adventure and Alien³.
Top 20
These were the top Nintendo games in Nov 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 | |||
| 2 | |||
| 3 | ▼1 Star Fox | — Kirby's Dream Land | |
| 4 | ▼1 Street Fighter II: The World Warrior | ▲1 Mega Man 5 | |
| 5 | |||
| 6 | ▲1 Mario Paint | — Tetris | NEW Jurassic Park |
| 7 | ▲9 Alien³ | ▲4 Dr. Mario | |
| 8 | ▼3 WWF Royal Rumble | ▲1 Final Fantasy Adventure | |
| 9 | NEW Alien³ | ||
| 10 | ▲1 Faceball 2000 | ▼4 Metroid | |
| 11 | NEW Shanghai II: Dragon's Eye | ▲2 Mega Man III | ▲4 Tetris |
| 12 | ▲6 Mega Man II | ▲4 Battletoads | |
| 13 | ▲1 SimCity | ▲2 The Ren & Stimpy Show: Space Cadet Adventures | |
| 14 | NEW Mega Man | ||
| 15 | NEW Battletoads in Battlemaniacs | NEW F-1 Race | ▲5 Mega Man 4 |
| 16 | ▼8 Shadowrun | ▲1 Battletoads | |
| 17 | NEW Prince of Persia | NEW Mega Man 3 | |
| 18 | |||
| 19 | ▼11 Yoshi's Cookie | ||
| 20 | ▼1 Golf |