Nintendo Power

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The first issue of Nintendo Power, featuring Super Mario Bros. 2.

Nintendo Power is Nintendo's official magazine in the United States and Canada. It covers all of Nintendo's currently active systems (and some inactive ones, if there is any worthy news), and all of the games on those systems. Nintendo Power contains strategy guides, previews, reviews, and exclusive material not made available to other sources.

Nintendo Power (or NP) celebrated its 200th issue in February of 2006, and had a major design overhaul in late 2005.

On Monday October 15th 2007, Nintendo of America sold Nintendo Power to Future USA, a magazine company that produces videogame magazines. The magazine remained the same except for a few small changes. Since Future US has taken over, the Player's Guide series has been put on hiatus (leaving Prima to produce the guides), and gifts can no longer be chosen with subscriptions, as the staff will choose one.

2011 coverage

Volume - Date Content Article (if available) Notes
263 - January 2011 Power Up; Warp Zone; Four-Sport Hero (Mario Sports Mix cover story); Resolution Revolution; 2010 Nintendo Power Awards Nominations; Playback; review, Community
  • Power Up, Nintendo Power's news department features an alert on the limited edition Nintendo DSis bundled with Mario Party DS
  • Warp Zone, which looks back at classic issues of Nintendo Power, recalls the January 2006 coverage of Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection and Mario Kart DS
  • Resolution Revolution offers humorous New Year's resolution suggestions to various video game characters such as Mario, Yoshi and Bowser.
  • Donkey Kong Country Returns is nominated for Wii Game of the Year, Best Wii Graphics, Best Original Score, Best Platformer and Best Retro Revival
  • Super Mario Galaxy 2 is nominated for Wii Game of the Year, Best Wii Graphics, Best Original Score and Best Platformer.
  • WarioWare D.I.Y. is nominated for Nintendo DS Game of the Year and Best New Idea.
  • Playback, which looks back at classic games revisits Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga
  • Super Mario All-Stars receives a rating of 9.0 out of 10.
  • Community covers fan-made LEGO sculptures, quilts and a pointillism mural featuring various Mario-series characters.

Cover gallery

Below is a gallery of almost all of the NP covers that Mario and others have appeared on. Notably, the Mario series has been stated to be the most popular subject of the magazine's covers, having appeared on 52 covers to date.

Nintendo Power Advance

In 2001, to promote the launch of the Game Boy Advance, Nintendo published a quarterly spinoff magazine of Nintendo Power entitled Nintendo Power Advance, which featured news, tips and complete walkthroughs for various Game Boy Advance games. It did not last very long, and was canceled after only four issues. Mario, however, was featured on three of the four covers.

Player's Guides

From 1991 through 2007, Nintendo Power also published official strategy guides for big Nintendo games. Among the games in the Mario series that were given Player's Guides:

The Official Guide to Mario

In 2010,Nintendo also made The Official Guide to Mario.It came with information about Mario's games, power-ups,cameos,and more.

See also

External links

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