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  • Creator Backlash: In the magazine's final issue, Steve Thompson said his biggest regret in his time writing for it was giving Shadow the Hedgehog an 8 out of 10. Thompson felt in hindsight he was far too lenient with the game, calling it "an abomination".
  • Cowboy BeBop at His Computer:
    • Parodied by Chris Hoffman, who insists that Tails is a mutant squirrel despite being a fox.
    • One Mario joke said that Mario can see into the future by using a Luigi board. Apparently the fan that submitted it wasn't aware that Ouija boards are used to contact spirits, not see into the future!
  • Executive Meddling: A contributing factor to the gradual loss of features as the magazine went on.
  • Official Fan-Submitted Content: NP held the only North American entry of the otherwise Japan-only Mega Man (Classic) Robot Master Design contest series, and two entries, Wind Man and Knight Man, were used in Mega Man 6.
  • Pre-Order Bonus: Notable subscription bonuses include a copy of Dragon Warrior, a Smashing Live! orchestral soundtrack CD, and the The Legend of Zelda: Collector's Edition Compilation Rerelease for Gamecube.
  • Promoted Fanboy: Steven Grimm, an Animal Crossing fan, has been spotted in the credits for Animal Crossing: City Folk. He appears to have gotten a job at Nintendo, because he's also credited in Mario Party 8 and Kid Icarus: Uprising.
  • The Red Stapler: An example of the trope in action, as Songbird Ocarina ads featuring ones like in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time were a staple of the magazine for at over 12 years, from '99 right up until its cancellation.
  • Screwed by the Network: The reason the magazine stopped being published was because Nintendo lost interest in getting it published in any form. Sad, especially since it had decent sales even in its dying days.
  • Vaporware: The magazine previewed several games that went unreleased:
    • Tales of Phantasia and Star Ocean, before any kind of localization had been announced. The articles were even rather angled toward hoping readers would write in, encouraging such.
    • The SNES Godzilla fighting game Godzilla: Great Monster Battle was going to be localized as Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters (a game by that name would get released, but it was a different 3D fighting game on the Nintendo Gamecube).
    • The localization of the Worlds of Ultima: The Savage Empire port on the Super Famicom.
    • Localizations of the Famicom games Chester Field: Ankoku Shin e no Chousen, as Chester Field, Nangoku Shirei!!: Spy Vs Spy, as Spy vs. Spy II: The Island Caper, and Perfect Bowling, as USA Bowling.
    • The NES games Super Sushi Pinball, Urban Convoy, Web World and Wild Boys.
  • What Could Have Been: As stated on the main page, they were originally going to call themselves Power Play, but went with their current name once they found out the name was already taken.
    • Future US had hoped to keep the magazine from dying completely by making it transition to a digital format. Sadly, Nintendo didn't let them.

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