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

Welcome to Part 1 of Issue 28 of playing with power. The final issue of Mike's substandard audio. Special shoutout to patreon donors James Millholland, and Peter Guzman! and stay tuned for special announcement regarding a new series on the feed! No links to the Retromags scans since they are gone.

3:00 - Cover: Super Mario World and the intricacies of American Gladiators and an epic mail bag, not to be confused with the Tanuki's male bag

15:00 - SUPER MARIO WORLD! What can we say about this game? a lot apparently. and Final Fantasy for some reason. Mike and John determine who is MORE color blind

38:30 - Nester's Adventure

42:00 - Star wars (not the SNES one). Mike learns the horrible alternate ending to the movie, where Luke is alone at the medal ceremony and also The horrible truth about who shot up the Jawa sandcrawler.

56:00 - Smash T.V. Mike tells us all about his experience playing the

We return to finish issue 27, with Dr Wily's Revenge and Final Fantasy

01:30 - Dr Wilys Revenge. If you want less than Mega Man on NES but more than the Tiger handheld game, this is the game for you. Uncle Ben gives out more electrical safety advice and we all share shocking stories

07:00 - Final Fantasy Legend 2 (covered more on Is It Worth it, good friends of the show) and we discuss swastikas and boxcar moustache.

10:50 - Days of Thunder. and Ben shares a wedding story and his disdain for Miami.

17:00 - Ultimate design your own Gameboy contest!

19:30 - SNES preview! and Mike screws up James name with Randy. John corrupts Mike

and we chat about Phalanx and their unusual choice in box art. Actraiser looks so good.

We are tackling issue 27 of Nintendo Power featuring Dr Wily. Apologies for Mike's audio. We have a Sex PSA and discover Mario's links to ISIS.

00:30 - Cover - Dr Wily

08:15 - Mailbag with a touching tale of brothers growing up with Nintendo

18:00 - Ninja Gaiden 3. And we discuss VG Stunt videos and Futurama

28:00 - Nester's Adventure. Not the best one here. but we do taunt ISIS and Trump

35:30 - Dragon Warrior 3. Mike is happy. Nobody else is. John does the unthinkable.

50:00 - Counselors Corner.  We got a goldmine over here

57:00 - Darkman. the powerboys experience some friction

1:07:22 - Outro

We lost Ben to family matters (Not the tv show apparently) but Mike and John proceed nonetheless through Shitwood forest in Issue 26

00:30 - Special Feature Game Boy, featuring Roger Rabbit and the Personal Organizer for game boy, Navy Seals, Altered Space

15:00 - Now Playing ft Legends of the Diamond!

21:10 - Players Poll.

23:20 - Counselors Corner

30:30 - Celebrity Profile - Marsha Warfield

33:00 - Pak Watch: Defenders of Dynatron City, Wolverine, Terminator 2, Hammerin' Harry

41:00 - Gail Tilden discusses licensing issues

45:00 - Outro

We discuss Issue 26  with Robin Hood Prince of Thieves. John gets shut down by Ben and Mike for his taste in movies. We get treated to good and bad voice impressions

03:00 - Cover. and what can a gamer do with JUST the SNES console. What can brown do for Robin Hood? Everything. Brown is doing everything. John has a cathartic moment about math. We all do.

11:00 - Mail Bag. featuring conspiracy chat and military game boys

24:00 - Robin Hood Prince of Thieves. and we discuss horrible things that Robins horse had to endure with all the men

35:30 - Nesters Adventures (sans Howie) and horrible Sean Connery impressions

42:00 - Rocking Kats and Classified Information

52:00 - Little Mermaid ft Story time with Uncle Ben!

We got Blaine J from Is It Worth It? It's a podcast about reviewing / appraising a game to deciding if the cost of the game is worth the current asking price on Ebay and collection sites.

Blaine and Mike both have a rep for talking up a storm, so John and Ben ran and hid for this episode but will return to discuss Issue 26 as usual.

When 2 people who dominate conversations clash, what can the outcome be? Let us know what you think as we blend our shows together :)

02:00 - Robin Hood Prince of Thieves

08:30 - Hunt for Red October, and what the hell is Sqwoon?

11:30 - Rocking Kats

13:30 - Little nemo

16:00 - Lone Ranger

17:50 - Bart Vs Space Mutants

20:20 - Little M

Hey everyone we are back with part 2 of Battletoads and we are picking things up with the Special Feature  Game boy and John regails us with the joy of submarine games

01:00 - Game boy Special. Hunt for Red October. The golden SUB-Standard. RC Pro Am

And four Score for gameboy comes with Super Off Road. woooo......

11:30 - Now Playing - Bo Jackson, Sky raid

14:50 - It's the Final Howard and Nester comic. with Howard's unceremonious exit

19:40 - Day Dreaming Davey. and the dating advice continues

26:40 - Players Poll.

29:00 - Counsellors Corner

38:50 - Celebrity Profile - David Leisure. and sadly Bill and Ted, and the game gear

43:15 - We continue the prime mermaid sexual configuration discussion with

Hey there Power Players this is it. Howard Philips is leaving Nintendo Power to move onto better things.  So Join us we discuss Battletoads, the SNES and little else :)

01:00 - Cover - Battletoads, Howard announces he leaves. John Plays Pokemon Go. and we read about pets in the mailbag. Mike faces a mutiny!

14:30 - Battletoads. So much Battletoads! and the Americans tell blood stories. Mike makes a pun. did you catch it? leave it in the comments :)

39:00 - Super Nintendo Entertainment System. John gets saucy on Mike!

53:00 - NES Golf.

58:00 - Outro

Mike had mystery issues with his audio but after a while (and a few botched episodes) we figured it out. so the audio will be less than great for the next couple of weeks but we DID fix it by issue 29. so bear with us. that is all :)

We keep things going with Josh Foreman to finish this issue! The morality police came and took John, but we endure!

Also check out Mike on the RPG show!

02:00 - Special Feature: Game Boy! Mysterium, Gauntlet 2, and Ben tells Josh about Golgo 13!

Battle Unit Zeoth, Nintendo World Cup! Wow this game is awesome to talk about! and Mike won't stop the puns! Final Fantasy on Game boy. Oh Boy!

22:30 - Adventures of Lolo 3!

29:00 - Uncle Ben shares advice about eating at Jersey Mikes (no relation to playing with power Mike)

32:20 - Celebrity Profile - Alex Winter (Bill S. Preston of Bill and