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Nintendo Power · Volume 71

Stargate

Issue
#71
Published
Apr 1995
Poster
WeaponLord 📌

Stargate took the cover, with Spider-Man, Addams Family Values, Mario's Picross and The Lion King inside. The Epic Center went behind the scenes on Secret of Evermore, and the Info Zone carried the latest news on the Ultra 64. An NBA Jam code special and the Banana Bucks promotion filled out the issue.

I'm writing about this new game, Donkey Kong Country. What kind of a name is that? And I bet it took years just to come up with the thing.

Cranky Kong's letter in Player's Pulse
Pull-out poster from Nintendo Power issue 71 — WeaponLord
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Games featured in this issue
Secret of Evermore cover
Spider-Man cover
… as well as the following games not in my collection:
  • Stargate
  • NBA Jam: Tournament Edition
  • Addams Family Values
  • Mario's Picross
  • The Lion King

Sweepstakes

An AST Pentium 75 MHz PC with a one-gigabyte hard drive, a 14.4 fax modem and a year of America Online, a serious machine in the spring of 1995. As ever, the Player's Poll card was the way in: rank your favorites, answer the survey and mail it to Redmond.

Classified Information

The codes and secrets this issue gave away.

Super Punch-Out‼
Sound test
Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure
A late start
WWF Raw
Two-punch KO
Kid Klown in Crazy Chase
Stage select codes
Earthworm Jim
Wrong cheat
Aerobiz Supersonic
Flag game
Bassin's Black Bass with Hank Parker
The bass code ever
The Ren & Stimpy Show: Time Warp
Bonus game passwords
Sonic Blast Man II
Same player code
Beauty and the Beast
Stage skip
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
Morphin duels

Counselor's Corner

Game Counselors on call

Readers wrote in to ask Nintendo Game Counselors questions about the following games: Robotrek, Mega Man X2, The Lion King and Mega Man V.

Counselor's Corner from Nintendo Power issue 71, page 76
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Counselor's Corner from Nintendo Power issue 71, page 77
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Counselor's Corner from Nintendo Power issue 71, page 78
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Counselor's Corner from Nintendo Power issue 71, page 79
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Power Charts

These were the top Nintendo games in Apr 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 · 6 issues
— Donkey Kong peak #1 · 11 issues
2
▲3 The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past peak #1 · 40 issues
▲8 The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening peak #1 · 24 issues
3
— Super Metroid peak #1 · 12 issues
— Donkey Kong Land peak #3 · 3 issues
4
▼2 Final Fantasy III peak #2 · 4 issues
NEW Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins debut
5
▲2 Earthworm Jim peak #5 · 6 issues
▼3 Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3 peak #1 · 14 issues
6
— Mortal Kombat II peak #1 · 7 issues
NEW Super Mario Land debut
7
▲1 Super Punch-Out!! peak #7 · 5 issues
▲2 Metroid II: Return of Samus peak #1 · 40 issues
8
▲1 Mega Man X2 peak #8 · 2 issues
▼2 Tetris peak #3 · 31 issues
9
▲11 NBA Jam: Tournament Edition peak #9 · 3 issues
▼4 NBA Jam peak #5 · 2 issues
10
▲6 NHL Hockey '95 peak #10 · 3 issues
NEW Mortal Kombat II debut
11
— The Lion King peak #10 · 5 issues
12
▲3 Super Mario Kart peak #2 · 2 issues
13
NEW NBA Live '95 debut
14
NEW F-Zero debut
15
NEW Tetris & Dr. Mario debut
16
▼3 Illusion of Gaia peak #11 · 4 issues
17
▲1 Ken Griffey Jr. Presents Major League Baseball peak #2 · 2 issues
18
▼8 NBA Jam peak #1 · 14 issues
19
▼15 Mega Man X peak #4 · 12 issues
20
NEW FIFA International Soccer debut
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