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

Hey there Power Players! We have Josh Foreman on the show! We Talk about the May 1991 issue of NP to discuss Vice Project: D00M and so many awesome things!

He is a level designer on Guild Wars 2 and a great guest! check his links

5:40 - Cover - Vice Project Doom!

15:30 - Art Beat featuring special fan: Maybe someone we know! Disturbing zelda Fan art!

29:30 - Vice Project Doom! Delivering the promise that Bayou Bil

Today we will be giving an extra press pause to catch up on all this power we played with. We will be back on Monday with the next issue, Enjoy this frank discussion of what games we're playing lately and what we think of the Nintendo Classic Mini (and it's shortcomings)

enjoy!

This is a new series from the power boys where we discuss urgent news, rising trends, sweeping fads, or whatever we feel like discussing that exists out of Nintendo Power

This pilot episode we discuss Pokemon Go!

If you have things you would like us to discuss, feel free to leave comments in the Facebook, or the twitter

What? Jeremy is Evolving!!? Jeremy has become Jeremii! We finish up the April 1991 issue of Nintendo Power without Ben but nto without laughs!

03:30 - Jeremii learns Braggadocio! It's super effective. Also we discuss Game boys  R-type, swordmaster, Mickey Mouse Dangerous Quest! WWF Superstars! and we deny the hulkster! Casino game.

13:30 - Monopoly! History lesson!

18:00 - Counsellors Corner!

21:30 - Nascar Nintendo Players Poll!

26:00 - Cartoon appreciation time! Pokemon unappreciation time!

35:30 - Gossip Galore.

40:00 - Outro and great ideas for the future!

Check out Jeremii at his twitters @oppowerup @ul

We cover Issue 23, with Jeremy as our guest. Jeremy is a con attendee, programmer, super Nintendo Power fan nerd extraordinaire. and a great guest.

Check out his appearance at SXSW (here)

Meeting the voice of Mario himself (here)

his Nintendo power revival page (http://www.powerupnintendo.com)

on Twitter for the power up, here, and Ultra Dolphin Revolution @ultdolrev and website

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We are back with James Millholland to wrap up Nintendo Power issue 22. He tells us about his podcast with Blaine J "Is it worth it" available on the Retro RPG podcast feed

4:00 - Centerfold - Battletoads

9:00 - Special Feature Game Boy. Contra, Boy and his Blob (colour themed feeding system on a black and white screen. no problem here.

14:00 - Special appearance by Mike's dad('s vacuum cleaner)

15:30 - Now Playing. Mike's rage rises. Top 30. Coming soon. Mike rages again

21:00 - NES the inside story

30:00 - G.I Joe. So of course we sing the theme.

40:00 - Now Playing - More text based NES games. and we diss Indiana Jones

44:00 - Princesss Tomato and the Salad Kingdom

49:00 - Nesters are back

1:00:00 - Counsellors Corner

and Mike falls off skype. Bad Mic for Mike.

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Metal Storm is the issue. We have James Millholland from "Is It Worth It?" a retro games review podcast available on the Retro RPG Podcast feed, along with co-star Blaine J to review games and determine if they are worth their asking price online. Check it out! We love this guy, and we get some love from reviews on itunes. So please keep it up listeners :)

06:00 - Cover - Metal Storm. A mech with subtle nazi overtones.

18:00 - Mike "raps" up the mail bag.  

20:15 - Metal Storm. It's a decent platformer that gives Mike Deja Vu

27:30 - Howard and Nester relaxing on Startropics Island! and Juggalos! Because.

35:00 - Startropics. Vuvuzelas, rape whistles and bears. Oh my.

42:00 - Tangents a plenty.

Beards, Johns neighbour, Mike covers Snoop Dogg

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7egcJTiplzc), Grimace, Standford and bad parenting

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We are back with Brandon Boswell and his less than silent laptop (but without Ben) to wrap up issue 21 of Nintendo Power.

1:40 - Special Feature Game Boy (is it special if it's monthly?) we discuss sports. By we, I don't mean Mike.

13:30 - Classified information (mostly Batman talk) and Quentin Tarantino's love affair with the N word. and it's not Netflix

18:30 - Magician. WTF is this ugly looking mess?

22:00 - Power Meter inside story

26:30 - Ultima Quest of the avater. you like RPG's? this looks like one.

31:40 - Classified Information - Dragon Warrior 2. Oh these counsellors. you never disappoint.

38:30 - Players Poll. Virtual reality pods! and the horrifying possibilities!

50:00 - Now Playing. North & South - The racism will rise again!

57:00 - Celebrity Profile, some sports guy! and sex talk. and another sports guy

We have a Stand up guest. Literally. we have Canadian stand up comic Brandon Boswell on the show as we discuss the utility of the disabled and much more.

02:20 - Cover - Startropics, Inside cover. Voices!

13:00 - Powerline! feels like I'm going to lose my mind. You just keep on pushing my love over the powerline

17:00 - Mailbag! Plus we discuss Terry Fox again!

33:30 - TMNT 2, Man this game is good. We're gonna talk about this for a while.

1:08:30 - Howard and Nester - Mega Man 3

1:11:30 - Quantum Fighter Kabuki Man. we mostly talk Civil War and Brandon shares his preferred suicide method which is pretty nice.

1:23:00 - Classified Information.

1:24:40 - StarTropics. so of course we discuss Okami and which animals are the rapiest.

1:37:30 - Outro

We're back and finishing up Issue 20 with the Simpsons poster. plus we get a nice present from the past courtesy of 9 year old Ben

2:00 - Gremlins 2.

12:00 - Game Boy Special Feature

19:30 - Game Boy Now Playing

21:30 - Howard and Nester (Solar Jet-man)

25:00 - Miracle Piano and Counsellors Corner

33:20 - Players Poll and some answers coutesy of 9 year old Ben! and some interesting Players Poll Winners including Mike's porn name!

39:50 - Power Express: Now Playing!

46:00 - Celebrity Profile- New Kids on the Block!

58:00 - Super Famicom showcase!

1:08:00 - Outro