Donkey Kong Country
Donkey Kong Country took the cover with the strategy coverage readers had been waiting for, alongside Contra III: The Alien Wars on Game Boy and Killer Instinct. A Mortal Kombat II code bonus printed the secret codes, including the extra fatality time code, and an Illusion of Gaia boss guide covered the guardians. Earthworm Jim and Sparkster filled out the features.
You've been reading about DK's most outrageous adventure for a while, so now it's time to get down to the nitty-gritty and start talkin' strategies!
The opening of the Donkey Kong Country strategy review
- Indiana Jones' Greatest Adventures
- Sparkster
- Super Adventure Island II
- WildSnake
Sweepstakes
A Killer Instinct arcade machine, valued at $5,000, for the winner. Five second-prize winners got a door-sized poster of Fulgore with a Killer Instinct cap and medallion.
Classified Information
The codes and secrets this issue gave away.
- Stunt Race FX
- Intermission tricks
- Tecmo Super Bowl
- Sound test
- Star Trek: The Next Generation
- Stage warp
- Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers
- Special group battle, Character profiles
- Fighter's History
- Boss code
- Contra III: The Alien Wars
- Quick end
- Double Dragon V: The Shadow Falls
- Attribute bonus, Boss code, Continue code
- Jim Power: Lost Dimension in 3D
- Mini-bonus code
- Super Alfred Chicken
- Chicken warp
- Mortal Kombat II
- Hidden kombatants, Numerous Special Moves and Finishing Moves, Kombat options, Ultra secret codes
Counselor's Corner
Game Counselors on callReaders wrote in to ask Nintendo Game Counselors questions about the following games: Lufia & the Fortress of Doom, Breath of Fire, Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3 and The Jungle Book.
Top 20
These were the top Nintendo games in Nov 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 NES | Game Boy | NES |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | |||
| 2 | ▼1 Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers | — Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3 | |
| 3 | ▼2 Donkey Kong | ||
| 4 | ▼2 Ken Griffey Jr. Presents Major League Baseball | ▲2 Tetris | — Metroid |
| 5 | ▼1 NBA Jam | ||
| 6 | |||
| 7 | ▼2 Kirby's Dream Land | ▼5 Dr. Mario | |
| 8 | NEW Earthworm Jim | ||
| 9 | ▲3 Kirby's Pinball Land | NEW Tetris | |
| 10 | ▼3 Tetris 2 | ||
| 11 | |||
| 12 | ▼3 Mega Man X | ▼2 F-1 Race | NEW Battletoads |
| 13 | NEW Mighty Morphin Power Rangers | ▲2 Dr. Mario | |
| 14 | ▲3 Tetris 2 | ||
| 15 | ▼2 Mega Man V | NEW Dragon Warrior | |
| 16 | ▼10 FIFA International Soccer | ▼2 Golf | |
| 17 | ▲2 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of the Foot Clan | ||
| 18 | ▼4 SimCity | ▼2 Faceball 2000 | |
| 19 | ▼4 Aladdin | NEW Final Fantasy Legend III | NEW Pac-Man |
| 20 | NEW Final Fantasy Mystic Quest | NEW The Jungle Book | ▼1 Monopoly |