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

Mike and Ben learn how *not* to go camping (hint: it involves a Virtual Boy) before tearing down the new characters from Killer Instinct 2 for the Arcade. They then crack wise at the robot master designs from Mega Man X3 before tearing Mechwarrior 3050 a new cockpit. Do you have fond memories of Toy Story for SNES? Ben thinks your nostalgia may be wrong! Mike tells us how much he "enjoyed" playing Syndicate for SNES and we close out the episode discussing some of the more questionable character designs from DKC2.  Enjoy!

Closing out the second half of the January 1996 issue we welcome the return of the Super C's! We review Scooby Doo for SNES, flouder at a Golf game, and check out some game boy games before stumbling through Now Playing and cracking wise along the way. Join us!

We're baaaaack! Over the break we said goodbye to John as a full-time host, but Ben and Mike are here to pick up the pieces with guests the Super Cs to introduce our 1996 season.  In this episode, we find ourselves disgusted with 90s gross-out advertisement trends, enjoy photos of a young Trailer Park Boys' Bubbles lookalike, and oh yes dig into some games!  Earthworm Jim 2 for SNES followed up with a giant N64 preview (find out what games like Mario Kart 64 or Blast Corps were called before they were released!), Revolution X featuring Aerosmith, Mutant Chronicles: Doom Troopers, and Breath of Fire 2.  Also featured: frequent interruptions by a certain Chavez baby!

We wrap up the year of 1995  and John's tenure as the Reddit genie of the podcast. we will be taking a break and will be back around Feb/Mar of 2018. we will have taste tests to keep you occupied, though if you crave Mike, you can always check out his hilarious horror movie podcast "The Graveyard Shift: Horror with Sheldon and Mike" on itunes and stitcher, also on Facebook: www.facebook.com/thegraveyardshiftpod

and our hilarious posts on www.facebook.com/playingwithpowerpodcast

We begin the last issue of 1995 and the last issue of John as a regular host. We hit up the players pulse and tackle the return to the Banana Republic of Kongo. and much more

We talk about how Nintendo teased FF7 on the NU64 before falling asleep while Mike describes Secret of Evermore in excruciating detail.  John and Ben take turns interrupting him with music and Ben caps it off with a live acapella.  This turns into an aside about singing inappropriate songs in the boy scouts.  We describe the distaster that is Waterworld for Virtual Boy followed by the fun Virtual Boy baseball game. After bumbling our way through the rest of the issue we call it a night!

In John's penultimate issue he not only discovers the bottom of a bottle of vodka, he also tells us all about estate taxes!  We learn all about Boogerman, the "popping subreddit", Mike takes a p*ss all over our Patreon donors while simultaneously failing at his job to actually *play* the games feature, and somewhere in there we talk about Spiderman & Venom Separation Anxiety and Big Sky Trooper.  Lastly Ben and John give Mike sh*t for choosing the name of his *other* podcast without researching first.

Ivan stays with us as we wrap up this issue and wish you all a happy holiday and a merry new year. filled with gross tangents, wildly inappropriate humor, and lots of love.

Merry Christmas Power Players, we have a christmas present for you! We are joined by Ivan from the Taste Test to talk about Yoshis Island, the baby mario cry, the pastel colors, and all the joy this game brings, as well as more game goodness!

We keep at it with issue 76 of nintendo power and Mike has some long term goal for the show at the end of this episode