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

We have a guest. Richard Rehder, producer and co-host from Geek Fallout Productions and

Mike's co-host from Geek Fallout: Technobabble. Mike has a new mic. The show falls apart immediately.
This issue features awards, trivia, games, comics, and a mailbag worth reading and the first documented cute girl gamer! (citation required)


00:00 - Intro

03:00 - Cover - What is this dude holding?

06:00 - Table of Contents and Rich get to meet the surfing gamer kid on the inside cover

08:30 - Mailbag. Letters from fans, worth reading this time!

17:30 - Link 2, part 2. Not much here. Moving on.

19:30 - Ben has a theory on the Coverage gaps we've noticed

20:00 - C.E.S 1989!

32:00 - Mid coverage 80's kid show tangent

41:00 - I-force, They-force, We all Force for U-Force!

42:40 - The Power Glove. It's soooo bad.

47:20 - Ninja "NOT Revenge of the Black Manta" Gaide

This week Mike realizes practice Isn't making perfect yet as he stumbles into issue 4. but we recover quickly thanks to Ben

00:00   Intro (botched by Mike)

02:20 The Cover

03:30 Shelves of new controllers! (spoiler! Most are crap!)

10:50 Wrestlemania! Can you dig it? The artwork and typos I mean.

20:30 Captain Nintendo, still unreadable. Now you can do better!

22:00 Can you tell me how to get PAST Sesame Street?

23:30 Zelda 2 - The Legend of Link. conflicting story with nice but misleading artwork.

44:10 Centrefold

45:00 Skate or Die! a game that demands cheating! Speaking Start screen

49:00 Nester at the Olympics!

51:30 Conspiracy at Counselors Corner!

56:00 Classified Information -  Hiring practices, tactical self termination, suggestive techniques!

1:00:00 Marble Madness!!

1:01:00 Operation Wolf. Punisher goes on world Tour?

This week we cover the third issue of Nintendo Power magazine from November of 1988. 
01:20 Golgo 13 06:00 Track and Field 2 (Cover Story) 24:00 Mickey Mousecapade 26:00 Howard and Nester 28:00 Blaster Master 32:00 Holiday merchandise catalog 41:10 Centerfold poster 42:20 What is an RPG?

This week we cover the second issue of Nintendo Power magazine from September of 1988. 

02:00 Nintendo Power Cover: Castlevania II Simon's Quest 
04:40 Calendar 
10:00 'Title Wave' 
12:30 Bionic Commando 
15:30 Gun.Smoke 
18:42 Lifeforce 
20:30 Castlevania II: Simon's Quest 
36:5

This week we conclude our retrospective of the first issue of Nintendo Power magazine from July of 1988.

 

01:20 Howard and Nester.

 

05:20 Nintendo Fun Club, Nintendo Power origins.

 

08:55 Classified Information

 

21:30 Double Dragon

 

29:00 Gauntlet

 

33:40 Contra

 

36:00 Wheel of Fortune / Jeopardy

 

37:30 Video Shorts

 

53:55 Player's Poll Sweepstakes

 

56:50 NES Journal

 

1:06:50 Mailbox

 

1:11:25 Top 30

 

1:13:40 Coming up next month...

A Brief Introduction to the concept and hosts and our experiences with Nintendo games and the magazine that made them beatable
This Issue:
Interesting cover with wrong color Mario and a DIFFERENT looking Nintendo villain than intended
The contents of this is surprisingly progressive for the 80's