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Nintendo Power · Volume 70

NBA Jam Tournament Edition

Issue
#70
Published
Mar 1995
Poster
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Crossroads of Time 📌

NBA Jam Tournament Edition took the cover, and the Epic Center debuted as a section for adventure and role-playing games with EarthBound and King Arthur: Knights of Justice. A Winter CES report covered the top games of the show, and the 1994 Nintendo Power Awards nominees were announced. Metal Warriors, Hagane and Tetris & Dr. Mario filled the features.

Now there's one place to look for all the news and game play info on adventure and RPG games: Nintendo Power's Epic Center.

The opening to the debut installment of the Epic Center column
Pull-out poster from Nintendo Power issue 70 — Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Crossroads of Time
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Games featured in this issue
Bubsy II cover
… as well as the following games not in my collection:
  • NBA Jam Tournament Edition
  • Metal Warriors
  • Speedy Gonzales: Los Gatos Bandidos
  • Hagane
  • Tetris & Dr. Mario
  • The Incredible Hulk

Classified Information

The codes and secrets this issue gave away.

Killer Instict
Speed-up code
Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure
Classic Pitfall
The Tick
Stage select
Shien's Revenge
Special game
Samurai Shodown
Amakusa
Madden NFL 95
Expansion teams
C2: Judgement Clay
Secret characters
NBA Jam
Power-up dunks, Power-up turbo, Power-up fire, Juice mode, More secret players

Counselor's Corner

Game Counselors on call

Readers wrote in to ask Nintendo Game Counselors questions about the following games: Super Adventure Island II, Earthworm Jim, Robotrek and Donkey Kong.

Counselor's Corner from Nintendo Power issue 70, page 80
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Counselor's Corner from Nintendo Power issue 70, page 81
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Counselor's Corner from Nintendo Power issue 70, page 82
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Counselor's Corner from Nintendo Power issue 70, page 83
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Power Charts

These were the top Nintendo games in Mar 1995, 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 Boy
1
— Donkey Kong Country peak #1 · 5 issues
— Donkey Kong peak #1 · 10 issues
2
— Final Fantasy III peak #2 · 3 issues
— Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3 peak #1 · 13 issues
3
▲3 Super Metroid peak #1 · 11 issues
▲2 Donkey Kong Land peak #3 · 2 issues
4
▲6 Mega Man X peak #4 · 11 issues
▲4 Kirby's Dream Land peak #1 · 28 issues
5
— The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past peak #1 · 39 issues
NEW NBA Jam debut
6
▼3 Mortal Kombat II peak #1 · 6 issues
▲4 Tetris peak #3 · 30 issues
7
— Earthworm Jim peak #7 · 5 issues
NEW Madden '95 debut
8
— Super Punch-Out!! peak #7 · 4 issues
NEW Space Invaders debut
9
NEW Mega Man X2 debut
▼5 Metroid II: Return of Samus peak #1 · 39 issues
10
▲4 NBA Jam peak #1 · 13 issues
▼7 The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening peak #1 · 23 issues
11
▲4 The Lion King peak #10 · 4 issues
12
NEW Secret of Mana debut
13
▲6 Illusion of Gaia peak #11 · 3 issues
14
▲2 Mighty Morphin Power Rangers peak #6 · 5 issues
15
NEW Super Mario Kart debut
16
▼5 NHL Hockey '95 peak #11 · 2 issues
17
▲1 Madden NFL '95 peak #17 · 2 issues
18
NEW Ken Griffey Jr. Presents Major League Baseball debut
19
NEW Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers debut
20
— NBA Jam: Tournament Edition peak #20 · 2 issues
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