Nintendo Power Issue 177 (March 2004)

Players Pulse (Letters to the Editor)

Power Charts

Game Watch: Gaming News for March 2004, Limited edition Game Boy Advance SP with an Onyx lid and Platinum base, Wax figure of Mario unveiled at Hollywood Wax Museum, CT Special Forces: Back to Hell (Game Boy Advance, released in NA as CT Special Forces 2: Back in the Trenches), Zoids: Battle Legends (GameCube), Yu-Gi-Oh! Reshef of Destruction (Game Boy Advance), Home on the Range (Game Boy Advance), James Bond 007: All or Nothing (GameCube), Conflict: Desert Storm II – Back to Baghdad (GameCube), Freestyle Street Soccer (GameCube), R-Type III: The Third Lightning (Game Boy Advance), Mega Man: Battle Chip Challenge (Game Boy Advance), Pitfall: The Lost Expedition (Game Boy Advance), March Gallery, Developer Profile with Kemco’s director of product development Colin Gordon, Game Watch Forecast

Power On

Nintendo Online

Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles (GameCube) feature

XIII (GameCube) feature

Phantasy Star Online Episode III: C.A.R.D. Revolution (GameCube) feature

Go! Go! Hypergrind (GameCube) feature

NFL Street (GameCube) feature

Classified Information:

• Go! Go! Hypergrind (GameCube)
• Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga (Game Boy Advance)
• Billy Hatcher & The Giant Egg (GameCube)
• Tony Hawk’s Underground (GameCube)
• Medal of Honor: Rising Sun (GameCube)
• SSX 3 (GameCube)
• Need for Speed Underground (GameCube)

Sonic Heroes (GameCube) Strategy

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (GameCube) Strategy

Need for Speed Underground (GameCube) Strategy

Goblin Commander: Unleash the Horde (GameCube) Strategy

 Epic Center:

• Konami buys the right to the “Ys” series
• Lots of new RPG’s announced at Japan’s Jump Fiesta 2003
• Bandai announces ChibiRobo will be renamed TeenyBot (I guess they changed their mind, because it was still released as ChibiRobo)
• Custom Robo (GameCube preview)
• Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance (Game Boy Advance) tactics

Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life (GameCube) strategy

Sphinx & The Cursed Mummy (GameCube) walk-through

Metroid: Zero Mission (Game Boy Advance) strategy

Pokecentre

Sonic Battle (GameCube) feature

Now Playing:

• Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles (GameCube)
• Sonic Heroes (GameCube)
• Metroid: Zero Mission (Game Boy Advance)
• NFL Street (GameCube)
• Blow Out (GameCube)
• Carmen San Diego: The Secret of the Stolen Drums (GameCube)
• Looney Tunes: Back in Action (GameCube)
• Midway Arcade Treasures (GameCube)
• The Muppets Party Cruise (GameCube)
• Need for Speed Underground (GameCube)
• XGRA: Extreme G Racing Association (GameCube)
• Sonic Battle (Game Boy Advance)
• Activision Anthology (Game Boy Advance)
• Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance (Game Boy Advance)
• Disney’s Aladdin (Game Boy Advance)
• Max Payne (Game Boy Advance)
• Need for Speed Underground (Game Boy Advance)
• Ozzy & Drix (Game Boy Advance)
• Peter Pan: The Motion Picture Event (Game Boy Advance)
• Shining Soul II (Game Boy Advance)
• Static Shock (Game Boy Advance)
• Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (Game Boy Advance)
• Ultimate Winter Games (Game Boy Advance)
• Yu Yu Hakusho: Spirit Detective (Game Boy Advance)

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