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

We are not only without a guest this issue, but also a co-host! Ben is on vacation with his OTHER family, so it's just John and Mike.

We cover Mortal Kombat 2, and the impending Donkey Kong Country, as well as numerous Players Pulse letters with beautiful envelope art.

We cover Mortal Kombat 2 Fatality and Friendships
Bomberman 2
Pocky and Rocky 2

Sports games

Areobiz Super Sonic 2.

Vortex

and Shiens Revenge!

We plug through Issue 63 without Ben for the first half of this episode. John reveals his Breath of the Wild experience.

We begin with Classified Information, which leads us to discuss Barry Bonds, and then Counsellor's Corner with depressed guys that don't age well, or just started enjoying puberty!

Mike realizes in the middle of Now Playing, that there are other people on the show with him, and gets vindication once again over John. and John defies type and delivers a tasteful Stevie Wonder joke!

We get into Shaq Fu and Mike immediately conceptualizes a better version of this game!

We discuss Itchy & Scratchy mini putt, with great names and a puzzling mechanic!

Mike finally fires back at John after one too many momma jokes!

We cover the power stamp catalogue and the amazing merch!

Then when plugging the graveyard shift, Ben gives John vindication.

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We bring you issue 63 with a weird duck car on the cover, and the return of patreon donor, friend of the podcast and funny dude, Ivan!
In the Players Pulse:
We cover Tekron ads from the past, lost Go-Pros, amazing plushies from someone that Mike is probably gonna crush on, and pets that also enjoy NP magazine.

We also cover the Lord of the rings and do HORRIBLE Glen Yarbrough impressions on a decent looking game that doesn't deliver.
Mike gets vindicated over John by judging a book by its cover.

We also discuss the Death and Return of Superman Game and comics. We immediately devolve into why Superman won't acknowledge Superboy. and why Superman is boring.

We get off course with Don Bluth discussions. and Ben get vindicated over John and then has to deal with kids that won't sleep.

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We continue epsiode 62 of Nintendo Power
We go into:

Secret of Mana with the appropriate love and respect it deserves.... lol

Back to the Future (even though theres no game of it featured)

Super Gameboy games!

Sports Jeopady (Whyyyyyyyyy?)

and John tells us why this issue had the WORST first prize

fianlly we stumble upon a review that WE would have wrote.

and so much more!


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Mike finally announces his new podcast The Graveyard Shift!
(Itunes graveyard shift with Sheldon and Mike, artwork has the cartoon skulls on a tombstone)
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John does some Beat Poetry Slam jamming to accompaniment by Mike and Ben

We tackle Street Fighter 2 yet again.
Mike gets to expound on Breath of Fire and do his Glen Yarbrough impression
Ben gives his impromput review of the Hulk movie by Ang lee who he confused for John Woo. Now who's racist?

We review the Jungle book....again and discover the suggestive titles, go into a revolutionary war triva lesson with what a Macaroni is, and realize the bad guy in double dragon is a Kitty.

Ivan comes to his senses and leaves, but the power boys endure to finish yet another issue of Nintedo Power! Mike unleashes his great/terrible Mother brain impression to finish the Metroid comic!

The counsellors provide us the same schadenfreude snickering . We get some DK trivia. AND SUPER GAME BOY GOODNESS

and Mike shares a change in his status.

Past guest Ivan returns to the show, and immediately regrets his decision. but remains as we discuss numerous terrible things and Letterman impressions... Not the least of which was the courting mishaps between Beauty and the Beast.

and much more

Player One has left us, but the laughs keep going with the power boys as we finish up issue 60.

We continue our unstable vocal rendition of the Metroid comic, and explore Samus's origins depsite numerous interuptions.


and much more!

Famed Speedrunner Player One joins us to read Metroid and discuss games and jokes and many things that make us fall in love with his voice. We get him to read the Nesters so look forward to that!

The power boys get into the many problems with Buffalo. All kinds.  And not everyone loves Super Metroid but we love making jokes at Samus' expense.

Mike gets railroaded at the outtake.

 

Retro Princess stays on with Ben and Mike, despite their differences from last episode.... untill she clashes with Mike again and now Ben as well. The gin may or may not have been responsible. We continue with Wario Land coverage, Counsellors Corner with a disturbing monster in Final Fantasy Legend, Ben wonders why so many cave man games were prevalent at the time.

We get into more CD vs Cartidge coverage and Nintendo brings the diss.