Nintendo Power

Nintendo Power was the official Nintendo magazine for North America. It has supplied Nintendo fans with in-game information for 24 years starting with its July/August 1988 issue and ending in December 2012.

Animal Crossing in Nintendo Power
The appears in the following issues of Nintendo Power:

The Crossing Guardian
During the era, each issue included an edition of The Crossing Guardian. It also distributed Animal Crossing-e cards and published secret codes for items from the Mario Theme from January 2003 to November 2003, which are the only way to obtain the items through normal means. It also distributed codes for the Mario Trophy and Luigi Trophy in the December 2003 and January 2004 issues, respectively.

Feature articles
Nintendo Power ran several feature articles on different games in the :

An article titled Out on the Town for.

Nintendo Player's Guides
Official player's guides from Nintendo Power were released for and.

Nintendo Power in Animal Crossing
In, villagers sometimes mention Nintendo Power and may ask for the player's help with a maze in the back of it.

and contain Nintendo Power advertisement flyers in their packaging.