Playing With Power: A Mature, Unofficial Nintendo Power Retrospective Podcast

We got a guest listener as cohost of the Taste Taste, Brandon Boswell, takes his sweet time getting a scan of the issue, but we make it work as we tackle issue 37 of Nintendo Power with Lemmings on the cover. and goodies inside.

Mike gets spicy after getting a less than perfect review, and some less awesome players pulse letters but it's all in good fun. Brandon makes a perfect observation, and much more.

We discuss lemmings, and the horrors of Disney, and Mike gets back to comic goodness.

Brandon discusses the spankability of Samus as we discuss Metroid 2 for Game boy, and the conspiracy of Friendly Floyd. Ben keeps it simple.

Stay Tuned for the Taste Test Starring Mike King and Brandon Boswell coming soon on the feed

Happy anniversary to our podcast listeners! As a present to you for your loyal listenership, and patreon funding, we have delivered on the promise of a new show hosted by Mike King of PWP fame, and fellow Canadian, Brandon Boswell, frequent guest and lovable stoner/cook!

this is the rough pilot of the Taste Test, a show where we play to completion or frustration, a retro video game every week. We will focus on the NES games, particularly ones that eluded us the first time around or got a passing mention in Playing with Power.  We will air the rest on a regular weekly schedule and even bring you, the fans, in on the rough/gentle loving these games have in store for us, with polls coming up very soon..

This series kicks off with a game that shared some notoriety in the early episodes of playing with power. but can it's gameplay redeem it's complicated appearance, or can you judge a game by it's appalling screenshots?

We continue issue 36  with Mario comics, still lamenting the neutered counsellors corner 

SNES games include

Zardon.

yet more games that defy the obvious successful direction.

The first GREAT Simpsons home console game.

Some kids that just need to be taken down a peg. 

and much more

When there's trouble, you call DW

and when gamers have trouble they call Nintendo Power. This is issue 36 with Darkwing Duck on the cover, and lots of goodies inside like:

Whacky races. a racing game without racing.

Robocop 3. Decent game of a shitty movie

Zelda comic.

board games for game boy. trippy artwork for sure.

We conclude issue 35 with more goodness provided by Llewellyn Graeme, Game Counselor and awesome dude. He leaves shortly into the podcast but not without dropping some stories on us regarding his brushes with fame and the perks of being a counselor.

We then enjoy reading comics, and discussing the Addams family movies, the SNES PlayStation, Wrestlemania deaths, the fall of the Hulkster, and much much more.

Welcome to Issue 35, a very special and informative issue, as we see the SNES coming into prominence. John isn't with us sadly, but we are joined by an ACTUAL GAME COUNSELOR and really awesome dude in general, Llewellyn Graeme !

We mentioned him in issue 27, and he joins us to tell us that working for the NES tip line was even more awesome than we ever could have assumed.

We also discuss how the SNES improvement mentioned on the cover lead to the creation of Nintendo's greatest enemy and the ultra rare Nintendo PlayStation.

ALSO: great stories behind the scenes of Nintendo, Impressions by Mike, a shining endorsement and so much more.

Issue 34 concludes with better audio, but no Ben again. but we do have music. and cookies. OK i ate the cookies when posting this but i couldn't Bogart the music.

01:00 - Counselors Corner with some premium looking counselors. and we discuss the preview of lemmings. and poop.

11:00 - Joe and Mac. Good looking game. and more colon related humor. Addams family posters.

17:00 - Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. not much to say about it......

59:00 - Nester Awards with Triforce's thoughts! and his respect for all lives is sweet. especially Yoshi.

1:09:00 - Comic reading time with uncle Mike. Nester's adventure, Zelda, and Super Mario Adventures.

1:34:00 - Outro with an outtake

We got a badass over here. Video game champion Isiah Triforce Johnson is here in Skype, though due to scheduling issues Ben couldn't join us. We discuss ways to legitimize the the SNES Superscope, and possibly our own podcast.

00:30 - Cover, Inside, Table of Contents. We also discuss cool prizes the fans asked for, and a LEGIT costume photo sent by a fan.

18:30 - Empire Strikes Back - Not the super version, not even a good version. Mike finds porn immediately. We immediately skipped to Terminator 2 Judgement day. Too bad this wasn't SNES. And Nightshade is a Maniac Mansion monochromatic mimicry.

29:30 - M.C Kids. Not Mc, These kids are MC's.

 

35:00 - Classified Information featuring Captain Planet and Actraiser. Triforce makes an executive decision.

39:00 - Mega man (takes a number) 2 for the Gameboy.  and the jokes start coming out.  by jokes i mean shit games. and the wretched things we

We conclude issue 33. Sans John.

We cover the legend of the Mystical Ninja. and Ben masterfully segues Mike out of a tangent.  good game, good discussion

19:00 - Wanderers from YS

24:00 - Super Scope 6. A decent peripheral with not enough games for it. Bazooka trumps orange magnum any day in our opinion. but not as marketable as the zapper. too cumbersome for logo cache?

36:00 - We discuss religious hats and the Players Poll. Nester Adventure gets a Redwashing with Simon Belmont. Nester must master the whip, No ghost riding though.

1:10:00 - Outro

Notes to be filled in later. Suffice to say Mike had a busy weekend.

We discuss TMNT and the logistics issues present in the narrative  and so much more.

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