Nintendo Power V153

Nintendo Power Volume 153 is an issue of Nintendo Power released in February of 2002. On the cover of the

magazine was the GameCube video game NBA Courtside 2002.

Power Charts
Nintendo 64 games were no longer being added to teh list of the Top Selling Games or the Player's Choice. All of the console attention was focused specifically on the then brand-new Nintendo GameCube

Nintendo GameCubeGames games

 * 1) Luigi's Mansion
 * 2) Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader
 * 3) Wave Race: Blue Storm
 * 4) Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3
 * 5) Madden NFL 2002
 * 6) Super Monkey Ball
 * 7) NFL Hitz 20-02
 * 8) All-Star Baseball 2002
 * 9) Batman Vengeance
 * 10) Crazy Taxi

Handheld games

 * 1) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone  - Game Boy Color
 * 2) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone  - Game Boy Advance
 * 3) Mario Kart: Super Circuit  - Game Boy Advance
 * 4) Pokémon Crystal - Game Boy Color
 * 5) Shrek: Fairy Tale Freakdown - Game Boy Advance
 * 6) Super Mario Advance - Game Boy Advance
 * 7) Monsters. Inc. - Game Boy Color
 * 8) Monsters. Inc. - Game Boy Advance
 * 9) Spyro: Season of Ice  - Game Boy Advance
 * 10) Golden Sun  - Game Boy Advance

GameCube games (Player's choice)

 * 1) Super Monkey Ball
 * 2)  Super Smash Bros. Melee
 * 3) Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader
 * 4) SSX Tricky
 * 5) Pikmin
 * 6) Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 ​​​​​​
 * 7) The Simpsons: Road Rage
 * 8) Luigi's Mansion' 
 * 9) Wave Race: Blue Storm
 * 10) Batman Vengeance

Handheld games (Player's choice)

 * 1) Golden Sun - Game Boy Advance
 * 2) Advance Wars - Game Boy Advance
 * 3) Wario Land 4 - Game Boy Advance
 * 4) Pac-Man Collection - Game Boy Advance
 * 5) Mario Kart: Super Circuit - Game Boy Advance
 * 6) Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2  - Game Boy Advance
 * 7) Castlevania: Circle of the Moon - Game Boy Advance
 * 8) Super Dodge Ball Advance - Game Boy Advance
 * 9) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - Game Boy Advance
 * 10) Shantae  - Game Boy Color

Most wanted

 * 1) The Legend of Zelda GC (Soon to be The Wind Waker)
 * 2) Animal Crossing (Referred to as Animal Forest)
 * 3) Super Mario Sunshine - GameCube
 * 4) Metroid Prime - GameCube
 * 5) Eternal Darkness  - GameCube

GameWatch
Games included in teh GameWatch for this month included NBA Street, Bloody Roar: Priman Fury, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 on GBA, Peter Pan: Return to Never Land, 18 Wheeler: American Pro Trucker, Sega Soccer Slam, Star Fox Adventures, Animal Forest Plus, Legend of the Stafi, and Doshin the Giant.

Power On and Nintendo Online
This was the last Nintendo Power magazine to feature a Game and Game Over segment, and from the next issue onward, it would be replaced with the image from Volume 152 and some submitted fan captions.

As well as that, due to this issue being released in February, NP celebrated Valentines day with personal ads that are actually meant to allude to six spicific games. The answer key was The Legend of Zelda: Majora's mask, Pikmin, Goldeneye 007, Crazy Taxi, Sonic Adventure 2 Battle, and Tetris. On the next page, we wer given pictures of hearts from various games iwth most of the pictures being blurred out and captions hinting at the game that the heart is from. THe games were Catlevania, Super Mario Advance, Harvest Moon, Bomberman: the Second Attack, Kid Icarus, Luigi's Mansion, Golden Sun, Mr. Pack-Man: Maze Madness, Popeye, Super Star Wards, The Legend of Zelda, and The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland.
 * Game: Classic Game Revival
 * Game Over: Illegal Emulators
 * Game: Button Mashers
 * Game Over: Mutton Bashers
 * Game: Code Cop
 * Game Over: Code Cretin
 * Game: GCN
 * Game Over: NGC
 * Game: Taxi-driver games
 * Game Over: "You talkin' to me?" jokes

In the monthly column known as Nintendo Online, the writers of Nintendo Power explain the new websites of popular Nintendo games. This time, it featured updates on smashbros.com on Super Smash Bros Melee, unveiling unlockable characters and stages.

Game strategies
Video games that featured strategies included:


 * NBA Courtside 2002
 * Batman Vengance
 * Cel Damage
 * ESPN International Winter Sports 2002
 * Smashing Drive
 * Dark Summit
 * Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2
 * NFL Quarterback Club 2002
 * Sonic Advance
 * Shantae

Special Features
The volume included preview of...
 * DigiPen Institute of Technology
 * Sonic Adventure 2: Battle
 * Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear

Classified Information
The first page of this month's Classified Information contained cheatcodes for NFL Hitz 20-02. The next page had a cheatcode for Wave Race Blue Storm that allowed you to ride on a dolphin, codes for unlocking minigames in Lego Bionicle, The more basic variation of Tetris in Tetris Worlds, Codes for unlimited ammo, all weapons, and invincibility in Back Track, and cheat codes for Doom on Game Boy Advance, plus the Trash Can Tip that holding down the Z button on the GCN title screen would activate squeaky toy sound effects.