Earthworm Jim
Earthworm Jim took the cover, with Wario's Woods, Samurai Shodown, Wario Blast and Demon's Crest inside. A Final Fantasy III special began, the Frame It contest winners were shown, and a feature offered the first look at VR 32, the system that became Virtual Boy. Uniracers and Super Return of the Jedi also appeared.
The latest advance in high tech video games is approaching from out of the depths of the human imagination.
The opening line of the "VR32" article
- Uniracers
- Super Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
- Demon's Crest
- Zero the Kamikaze Squirrel
- Tin Star
- Samurai Shodown
- Wario Blast
- Casino FunPak
Sweepstakes
A trip to the Yucatán to match Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure, Activision's Super NES revival of Pitfall Harry. Second prize was a Coleman sleeping bag, a rechargeable twin-tube Coleman lantern and the game, gear for a jungle expedition closer to home.
Classified Information
The codes and secrets this issue gave away.
- Mortal Kombat II
- Kredits code, Throw no mo', Random select
- Disney's Aladdin
- Stage select
- T2: The Arcade Game
- Stage skip
- Ninja Warriors
- Stage select
- Vortex
- Bonus passwords
- F1 ROC II: Race of Champions
- Track select, Time attack mode, Special game 1, Special game 2, Sound test
- SimAnt
- Wacky cat
- Lamborghini: American Challenge
- Bonus cash
- ClayFighter
- Boss code
Counselor's Corner
Game Counselors on callReaders wrote in to ask Nintendo Game Counselors questions about the following games: Brain Lord, Illusion of Gaia, Blackthorne and Donkey Kong.
Top 20
These were the top Nintendo games in Dec 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 Donkey Kong | ||
| 3 | ▼1 Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3 | ||
| 4 | — Ken Griffey Jr. Presents Major League Baseball | — Metroid | |
| 5 | ▼1 Tetris | ||
| 6 | ▼1 NBA Jam | NEW Mighty Morphin Power Rangers | |
| 7 | ▼5 Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers | ||
| 8 | ▲5 Mighty Morphin Power Rangers | ||
| 9 | ▼2 Kirby's Dream Land | ||
| 10 | NEW The Lion King | ▲3 Dr. Mario | |
| 11 | ▲1 Mega Man X | ▼2 Kirby's Pinball Land | |
| 12 | NEW Mortal Kombat | ||
| 13 | ▼4 Tetris | ||
| 14 | — Tetris 2 | ▼4 Tetris 2 | |
| 15 | NEW Tetris 2 | NEW Mortal Kombat II | |
| 16 | NEW Batman: The Animated Series | ||
| 17 | NEW Casino FunPak | ||
| 18 | NEW NBA Live 95 | NEW Final Fantasy Adventure | |
| 19 | NEW Breath of Fire | — Pac-Man | |
| 20 | NEW Yoshi's Cookie | NEW Mega Man 5 |