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CflrP •(Canadian residents pay $25) AUGUST 1994 VOLUME 63 GAME REVIEWS STUNT RACE FX ...8 LORD OF THE RINGS, VOL. 1 18 KING OF THE MONSTERS 2 26 THE DEATH & RETURN OF SUPERMAN .30 a AMERICAN TAIL: FIEVEL GOES WEST .35 SONIC BLASTMAN 2 42 DISNEY'S BEAUTY & THE BEAST 78 COOL SPOT 82 ITCHY & SCRATCHY 88 ROBOCOP VS. THE TERMINATOR ... 94 (lAl SECRET OF MANA SPECIAL .48 Continue your exciting journey through Mana's vast territory in Part Two of a three part series. BEHIND THE SCENES: SHAQ FU .74 Looking for the next big thing in fighting games? Then check out all the behind-the-scenes action in the making of this upcoming new game from Electronic Arts. REGULAR FEATURES FEEDBACK CLASSIFIED INFORMATION 60 PLAYER'S PULSE 6 COUNSELORS' CORNER 64 POWER PLAYER'S CHALLENGE 100 ^^HUPDATESi^HH TOP 20 102 NOW PLAYING 68 PAK WATCH 104 NEXT ISSUE 114 VOLUME 63 5 y son and a friend lost two r’jri i! 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Well, I’m not dreaming ’cause 1993 issue. He loves to get H this thing is filled with way cool the latest tips on the newest Super stuff. Keep it up NP! I'm looking for- NES games. ward to more Super Power Stamps MATT WITKOWSKI and the third catalog. BATAVIA, NY TONY COREY WASHINGTON, NC Tony has probably fainted and is lying on the floor right now because he just got his third Super Power Supplies catalog! If you know Tony, read this issue later and please go great idea, but you should have more over to his house to wake him up. But in ways to get ’em. don' t forget to tell him that MIKE ANDERSON November of this year, we’re gonna Super Power WAYNE, NJ hit him with the fourth Supplies catalog! Nintendo has a Don't know what it is with pets and Check the Stamp Saver Section in truck load of new games coming out Nintendo Power, hut they seem to he your catalog. Give the monthly Power later this year and the merchandise in able to read the magazine as well as Players challenge a try! We're plan- the fourth catalog will certainly anyone else! ning more ways to get Stamps to you! reflect that. IF YOU'RE IN THE We're looking for great summer NINTENDO POWER MOOD TO WRITE, vacation stories! Ana we're still on the lookout for photos of you with PLAYER'S PULSE ME RE IN THE Nintendo Power at interesting vaca- P.O. BOX 97033 >OD TO READ! tion destinations. Send 'em in. REDMOND, WA 98073-9733 NINTENDO POWER /m/m}- / %,o /{y^v STAFF Publisher M. Arakawa Producer-in-Chief Tsutomu Otsuka Editor-in-Chief Gail Tilden Senior Editor Pam Sather Editors Scott Pelland Leslie Swan Jeff Bafus Jon Whisler Jane Hacker Editorial Consultants Howard Lincoln lhink the Super Power Stamps just bought something out of the Peter Main are great! I am saving mine up second Super Power Supplies Phil Rogers I for a Link's Awakening Player’s a catalog and cut the price almost Juana Tingdale Dan Owsen Guide. It will really help me play the in half by using Super Power Stamps! 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The TOP 10 list Rob Soo . that they sent in was featured in the Player's Pulse in Volume 61 but improper- , was Ritsuko Yama/i ly credited to Joel Self of Santa Clara, California, Sorry about the mix upl I Hiroshi Nakae Scott Douwes Gregg Coomer wmm coi Nintendo Power Illustrators Augie Pagan Brian Ballinger Subscriptions & Gregg Coomer onsumer Service Hiroshi Nakae Nintendo's current adver- Katsuya Terada tising campaign is -255-3700 Michael J. Flynn 800 Orange Nakamura designed to let you know 1-800-422-4281) (TDD Scott Douwes how our games should Call for service, general Syuji Imai really be played: assistance or to change your address between 4 a.m. and LOUD!!! On the literal VOLUME 63 - AUGUST 1994 | midnight Pacific time, Monday Nintendo Power is published by Nintendo of front, it makes perfect through Saturday or 6 a.m. ana 7 America Inc. in conjunction with Tokuma Shoten sense: turn up the volume on youT"" p.m. Sunday. Publishing Co., Ltd. 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