Nintendo Power V252

Departments

 * Pulse: Chris Slate gave some focus on why the magazines gives out Nintendo Power awards. He also asked readers which game they felt was the most underrated and why. Meanwhile, people wrote in explaining why they love Nintendo gaming.
 * Preview July '09': The games previewed this month were Again, Infinite Space, Monster Rancher DS, Red Steel 2, Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love, Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey, Sonic Classic Collection, Trauma Team and WarioWare D.I.Y.
 * Power Profiles #37: Interview with Mark Turmell, the senior creative director of EA Tiburon. He's notable for working on and designing classic arcade games such as Smash TV, NBA Jam, WWF Wrestlemania: The Arcade Game and NFL Blitz. He's currently a creative consultant for NBA Jam for the Wii.
 * Playback: A look back at Sparkster, an action-adventure game for the Super NES, released in October 1994. The magazine noted that the game was also released on the Sega Genesis at the same time but with different levels, enemies, and attacks, and even a different control scheme.
 * Community: Dave Sterling is an engineer who entered a LEGO building competition where participants built things based on retro-gaming. His entry was the original Nintendo Entertainment System, along with two controllers, a game cartridge, and a TV. The LEGO NES wasn't exactly inanimate; the Power and Reset buttons could move and the cartridge could be placed into system, simulating a real life NES (his dedication is likely what put him in first place). Web developer and crafter Erin Desnise Chupeco showed her gaming fandom in a different way, she makes up four inch tall dolls made out of yarn that resemble Nintendo characters.
 * Next Month: Nintendo Power will have an in-depth feature on WarioWare D.I.Y. and reviews of Red Steel 2, Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver and Infinite Space. It also plans on celebrating the 20th Anniversary of Super Mario Bros. 3.

Staff

 * EDITOR IN CHIEF Chris Slate
 * EXECUTIVE EDITOR Steve Thomason
 * SENIOR EDITOR Chris Hoffman
 * ASSOCIATE EDITOR Justin Cheng
 * ART DIRECTOR Chris Imlay
 * CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Patrick Cunningham, Carolyn Gudmundson, Casey Loe, Nathan Meunier, Randy Nelson, George Sinfield, David F. Smith, Phil Theobald
 * COPY EDITOR Candace Cunningham
 * LICENSING MANAGER Frances Wall Jha