History ComicBook / NintendoComicsSystem

* ''UsefulNotes/GameBoy'' - In what may or may not be a SpinOff from the ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' comic, a disgruntled man named Herman Smirch is turned into a slave for ''VideoGame/SuperMarioLand'' villain Tatanga and is forced to release through "the gateway" (a.k.a. a Game Boy) when the alien demands it. Luckily, other Game Boy players are always around to release Mario ([[DependingOnTheWriter who has a strangely different personality here than in his other comic]]) through the gateway so he can drive Tatanga's forces away.

Unfortunately, despite Nintendo's prominence in the video game market at the time, the comics apparently did not sell very well; arguably, the Zelda comics were the most popular and had the longest run. They were all discontinued right around the time the UsefulNotes/SuperNES was launched (though as ''Magazine/NintendoPower'' showed the following year, it was not the end of Nintendo comics in general).

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* SamusIsAGirl: Literally. When the N Team first meet Samus Aran, none of them are aware of her gender until she removes her helmet. This is a bit of FridgeLogic for Princess Lana, who has already been shown, to monitor the various realms of Videoland, using magical television screens; one would think that Samus would have removed her helmet, at ''some'' point while Lana was watching. Quoted at the trope page.

* ''UsefulNotes/GameBoy'' - In what may or may not be a SpinOff from the ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' comic, a disgruntled man named Herman Smirch is turned into a slave for ''VideoGame/SuperMarioLand'' villain Tatanga and is forced to release through "the gateway" (a.k.a. a Game Boy) when the alien demands it. Luckily, other Game Boy players are always around to release Mario (who has a strangely different personality here than in his other comic) through the gateway so he can drive Tatanga's forces away.

* OffModel: Wart in his first appearance, where he was drawn the ''exact'' same way as Bowser.

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The comics are archived [[http://catfish.it.cx/trsrockin/trsrockin.com/ncs_stories.html here]], although a few stories are missing.

* FourthWallMailSlot: "Dear Princess Toadstool" was treated as such, despite the fact that she was really just answering mail from other characters
%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

* TookALevelInBadass: Compare [[http://trsrockin.com/images/gb_palm5.jpg Tatanga's appearance here]] to how he looks in the [[http://www.mariowiki.com/images/c/c7/Tatanga.GIF official game artwork]]

* ADayInTheLimelight: "Breakout" is mainly a Lana and Samus story; Kevin only appears in the final page for two panels.

* ''ComicBook/TheLegendOfZelda'' - Link and Zelda have to protect the Triforce of Wisdom from Ganon, the Prince of Darkness. These comics take place following the events of ''VideoGame/ZeldaIITheAdventureOfLink'' and have many details in common with the [[WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfZelda cartoon series]] based on the games which debuted around the same time.

The Nintendo Comics System, first published in 1990, was a short-lived imprint of the now-defunct comic book company Creator/{{Valiant Comics}}. As the name suggests, it was a series of comic books based on the popular Creator/{{Nintendo}} video game franchises and their [[AnimatedAdaptation cartoon spin-offs]]. The titles published within this imprint included stories based on:

* StockAnimalDiet' Subverted in "A Mouser in the Houser": the Mousers actually hate cheese despite being given it constantly.

* ''WesternAnimation/CaptainNTheGameMaster'' - Based on the cartoon of the same name, except it takes itself more seriously. Also, [[Franchise/{{Metroid}} Samus Aran]], having been oddly absent from the cartoon, is here, while third party characters [[Franchise/{{Castlevania}} Simon Belmont]] and ''VideoGame/MegaMan'' are absent.

* HypnotizeThePrincess: In "Magic Carpet Madness." But it ends up hurting Bowser rather than helping him - while hypnotized, Peach wrecks his blimp.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: A particularly blatant one in the story ''Bowser Knows Best,'' when the Princess is running from the Koopalings. She's seen jumping over a green pipe, from which a ''very happy-looking'' Piranha Plant is peeking up her skirt.

** In "A King of Shreds and Patches", she ends up in the BadFuture, rejoices that Lana is gone and she can have Kevin all to herself, despite the fact that, you know, the bad guys have taken over every world, except the garbage planet where Kevin now lives, and by not going back in time, and [[ForWantOfANail changing one thing,]] she's screwing over everyone in Videoland (though she did have plans to help liberate Videoland in that future). She does go back in the end.

* FreakyFridayFlip: Happens to Kevin and Duke in "A Dog's Life."

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* PetTheDog: In the 2nd Game Boy comic "It's a Small World After All" both Herman and to a lesser extent Tatanga did this. After Herman is convinced by his mother to get rid of that Game Boy he was using he gave it to a couple of little girls who were nearby. Also when Tatanga's crew hijacked the Space Shuttle he was somewhat abrasive to Tannis at first until she started to cry in which then he then tried to calm her down and give her his jacket to help warm her up. Oh sure he did display some DirtyCoward tendencies as he was quick to point fingers at Tannis when Mario got his way into the Shuttle by the Gameboy. But he was also horrified when Tatanga fully intended to let him and Tannis die on the shuttle as his crew escapes as Herman pointed out that Tatanga at one point liked Tannis first. As for Tatanga while it wasn't his intention the fact that he did get Tannis on board in the Shuttle was something that Tannis greatly appreciated as it was her dream to go to space in which even Princess Daisy lampshaded this.

* TheDitz: King Toadstool and Lemmy Koopa.

* SpoiledBrat: While she is level-headed most of the time, Princess Toadstool has her moments, most notably in "Love Flounders" when she sends Mario out to pick chuckberries for her, ignoring that he probably had already committed himself to go bowling with Luigi and Toad that day and outright acknowledging he would be "risk[ing his] life for a handful of berries".
-->'''Mario:''' Sometimes I think she takes this Princess stuff a little ''too'' seriously.

* TheDitz: King Toadstool and Lemmy Koopa

* ''VideoGame/PunchOut'' - Stories are made based off of Little Mac's matches with his opponents in the games. OK, only two (Piston Honda and Supermacho Man).

* DumbassHasAPoint: Subverted because King Toadstool's assumption that Wooster was betraying them was wrong.

* SpoiledBrat: While she is level-headed most of the time, Princess Toadstool has her moments, most notably in "Love Flounders" when she sends Mario out to pick chuckberries for her, outright acknowledging he'll be "risk[ing his] life for a handful of berries".

* InformedAttribute: For all of Kevin Keene's alleged game mastery, it's quite a shock to discover, that he never finished the original ''Metroid'' fast enough, to learn that SamusIsAGirl.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Samus Aran almost goes ahead with some pretty questionable stuff, to win Captain N's affections. In one issue, where she and Princess Lana are in jail, she almost leaves Lana there when escaping. In another, she ends up in the BadFuture, rejoices that Lana is gone and she can have Kevin all to herself, despite the fact that, you know, the bad guys have taken over every world, except the garbage planet where Kevin now lives, and by not going back in time, and [[ForWantOfANail changing one thing,]] she's screwing over everyone in Videoland (though she did have plans to help liberate Videoland in that future). She does go back in the end.
* SamusIsAGirl: Literally. When the N Team first meet Samus Aran, none of them are aware of her gender until she removes her helmet. This is a bit of FridgeLogic for Princess Lana, who has already been shown, to monitor the various realms of Videoland, using magical television screens; one would think that Samus would have removed her helmet, at ''some'' point while Lana was watching.