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Nintendo Power · Volume 56

Mega Man X

Issue
#56
Published
Jan 1994
Poster
Bugs Bunny: Rabbit Rampage 📌

Mega Man X took the cover as the Blue Bomber jumped to the Super NES, with Flashback, Claymates, Soldiers of Fortune and Batman: The Animated Series inside. An Only in Japan feature covered games that never crossed the Pacific, and a new Mario vs. Wario comic began. Subscribers got a set of Mega Man X milk caps bound in.

I knew it! The ol' switcheroo! It's pay-back time, Mario!

Wario, thinking Mario beat him to buying the Samus doll
Pull-out poster from Nintendo Power issue 56 — Bugs Bunny: Rabbit Rampage
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Games featured in this issue
Mega Man X cover
Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers 2 cover
TMNT: Tournament Fighters cover
Battletoads & Double Dragon cover
Tetris 2 cover
… as well as the following games not in my collection:
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: Radical Rescue
  • Flashback
  • Claymates
  • Soldiers of Fortune
  • Super Solitaire
  • Batman: The Animated Series
  • TMNT III: Radical Rescue

Sweepstakes

The winner and a guest met off-road champion Ivan Stewart at the Baja 500, a $5,000 trip tied to his Super Off Road games, with an official driver's helmet on the prize list. The page also reported on the Pro Bowl winner from Volume 42 and his trip to Honolulu.

Comics

Mario vs. Wario · Volume 56

Mario vs. Wario

Special · 8 pages · from p. 52

A single story pitting the two rivals against each other, drawn in the style of the Mario Adventures serial.

The second Mario vs. Wario, for Princess Toadstool's birthday bash: an invitation arrives, Mario agonises over a present special enough for her, and Wario sees his chance at payback with the ol' switcheroo on the gifts. The Princess ends up with the wrong present from the wrong plumber, both of them get told they're juvenile and have spoiled her birthday, and it's Luigi's gift that turns out to be exactly what she wanted.

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Classified Information

The codes and secrets this issue gave away.

WWF Royal Rumble
Twin wrestlers, Super punch mode
Final Fight 2
Same player code
The Ren & Stimpy Show: Veediots!
Level select
Super Strike Eagle
Secret mission
Super Star Wars
Invincibility code
ActRaiser 2
Special passwords
Metal Combat: Falcon's Revenge
Erase all data
Mighty Final Fight
Bonus levels
Super Spy Hunter
Hyper tennis
Metroid
Quick end

Top 20

These were the top Nintendo games in Jan 1994, 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 NESGame BoyNES
1
— Mortal Kombat peak #1 · 2 issues
— The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening peak #1 · 9 issues
▲1 Super Mario Bros. 3 peak #1 · 43 issues
2
— Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting peak #1 · 5 issues
— Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins peak #1 · 16 issues
▼1 The Legend of Zelda peak #1 · 27 issues
3
▲1 The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past peak #1 · 25 issues
▲6 Mortal Kombat peak #3 · 2 issues
— Kirby's Adventure peak #1 · 5 issues
4
▼1 Super Mario All-Stars peak #3 · 3 issues
— Kirby's Dream Land peak #1 · 14 issues
▲1 Tecmo Super Bowl peak #1 · 22 issues
5
▲2 Street Fighter II: The World Warrior peak #1 · 19 issues
— Metroid II: Return of Samus peak #1 · 25 issues
▼1 Jurassic Park peak #4 · 3 issues
6
▼1 Star Fox peak #1 · 10 issues
▼3 Super Mario Land peak #1 · 25 issues
▲1 Metroid peak #2 · 14 issues
7
▼1 Super Mario Kart peak #2 · 14 issues
▼1 Tetris peak #3 · 16 issues
▲2 Mega Man 5 peak #3 · 7 issues
8
▲1 Final Fantasy II peak #3 · 25 issues
▼1 Jurassic Park peak #7 · 2 issues
▼2 Final Fantasy peak #2 · 39 issues
9
NEW Mega Man X debut
▲2 Faceball 2000 peak #6 · 25 issues
NEW Monopoly debut
10
— Mario Paint peak #4 · 9 issues
▼2 Final Fantasy Legend III peak #8 · 2 issues
▲2 Battletoads & Double Dragon peak #5 · 5 issues
11
▲4 Zombies Ate My Neighbors peak #11 · 3 issues
▲1 Dr. Mario peak #2 · 25 issues
▲5 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles peak #1 · 2 issues
12
▼4 Aladdin peak #8 · 2 issues
▼2 Mega Man IV peak #10 · 2 issues
▼1 Super Mario Bros. 2 peak #1 · 33 issues
13
— F-ZERO peak #2 · 2 issues
NEW Mega Man II debut
NEW Mega Man debut
14
▼2 Super Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back peak #12 · 2 issues
NEW Mega Man III debut
NEW Mega Man 4 debut
15
▼1 SimCity peak #3 · 25 issues
— The Ren & Stimpy Show: Space Cadet Adventures peak #7 · 9 issues
▼1 Dr. Mario peak #3 · 36 issues
16
— Super Mario World peak #1 · 6 issues
▲1 Final Fantasy Adventure peak #4 · 25 issues
NEW Mega Man 2 debut
17
NEW Flashback debut
▼3 Golf peak #13 · 6 issues
▼4 Tetris peak #2 · 42 issues
18
▲2 Madden NFL 94 peak #18 · 2 issues
▼2 Kirby's Pinball Land peak #16 · 2 issues
NEW Mega Man 3 debut
19
NEW NHL Stanley Cup debut
NEW Yoshi's Cookie debut
NEW Battletoads debut
20
NEW P.T.O. debut
▼7 Final Fantasy Legend II peak #9 · 25 issues
▼3 Zelda II: The Adventure of Link peak #1 · 14 issues
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