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The 2002 Nintendo Power Awards were the 16th annual awards published in the May 2003 issue (Volume 168) after listing the nominees in Volume 166.
Most of the awards went to Metroid Prime, including Game of the Year, but a large number of awards went to Animal Crossing as well. Most of the awards for the GameBoy Advance went to The Legend of Zelda: A Link To the Past/Four Swords.
Awards, Winners, and other nominees[]
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| Best GameCube Game | ||
| Winner: Metroid Prime Runners-up:
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| Best Game Boy Advance Game | ||
| Winner: The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past & Four Swords (Magazine) Metroid Fusion (Online) Runners-up:
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| Best GameCube Graphics | ||
| Winner: Metroid Prime Runners-up: Other Nominees: |
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| Best Game Boy Advance Graphics | ||
| Winner: Metroid Fusion Runners-up:
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| Best Musical Score | ||
| Winner: Super Mario Sunshine Runners-up: Other Nominees: |
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| Best Sound (GameCube) | ||
| Winner: Metroid Prime Runners-up: Other Nominees: |
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| Best Music Based on a Pre-existing Score (Online Category) | ||
| Winner: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Runners-up: |
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| Best Music/Sound (Game Boy Advance) | ||
| Winner: The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past & Four Swords Runners-up: Other Nominees: |
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| Best Cut Scenes (Online Category) | ||
| Winner: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Runners-up: Other Nominees: |
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| Best Opening Scene | ||
| Winner: 007: Nightfire Runners-up: |
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| Best Voice Talent | ||
| Winner: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Runners-up: Other Nominees: |
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| Best Sports Game | ||
| Winner: Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 Runners-up: Other Nominees: |
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| Clunkiest Use of Pronounciation in a Title (Online Category) | ||
| Winner: Donald Duck: Goin' Qu@ckers*! Runners-up: |
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| Best Minigame (Online Category) | ||
| Winner: Raising Chao (Sonic Adventure 2: Battle) Runners-up:
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| Best Fighting Game | ||
| Winner: Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance Runners-up: Other Nominees: |
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| Most Misunderstood Character (Online Character) | ||
| Winner: Crazy Redd (Animal Crossing) Runners-up:
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| Best Racing Game | ||
| Winner: Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 Runners-up: Other Nominees: |
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| Biggest Hearthrob (Online Category) | ||
| Winner: Krystal (Star Fox Adventures) Runners-up: |
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| Ugliest Character (Online Category) | ||
| Winner: The Omega Pirate (Metroid Prime) Runners-up:
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| Best in-game Text/Dialogue (Online Category) | ||
| Winner: Animal Crossing Runners-up: |
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| Best RPG | ||
| Winner: Animal Crossing Runners-up: Other Nominees: |
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| Best Puzzle Game | ||
| Winner: Tetris Worlds Runners-up: Other Nominees: |
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| Best Shooter | ||
| Winner: 007: Nightfire Runners-up: Other Nominees: |
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| Best Remake | ||
| Winner: The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past & Four Swords Runners-up: Other Nominees: |
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| Best Way To Get Out Your Aggression In A Healthy Manor (Online Category) | ||
| Winner: Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee Runners-up: |
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| Best New Weapon/Item (Online Category) | ||
| Winner: Phazon Beam (Metroid Prime) Runners-up:
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| Best Multiplayer Mode | ||
| Winner: Mario Party 4 Runners-up: Other Nominees: |
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| Best Replay Value | ||
| Winner: Animal Crossing Runners-up: Other Nominees: |
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| Most Innovative | ||
| Winner: Animal Crossing Runners-up: Other Nominees: |
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| Overlooked And Underrated | ||
| Winner: Bomberman Generation Runners-up: Other Nominees: |
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| Best Use of a Lisence | ||
| Winner: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Runners-up: |
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| Weirdest Title | ||
| Winner: Hamtaro: Ham-Hams Unite! Runners-up: Other Nominees: |
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| Best New Character | ||
| Winner: Aragorn (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers) Runners-up:
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| Best New Villain | ||
| Winner: Meta-Ridley (Metroid Prime) Runners-up:
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| Harder Than College (Online Category) | ||
| Winner: Beating Meta Ridley (Metroid Prime) Runners-up:
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| Strangest Concept or Plotline | ||
| Winner: Discover that your longtime girlfriend may, in fact, be the mother of your mortal enemy's son. (Super Mario Sunshine) Runners-up:
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| Worst Hair (Online Category) | ||
| Winner: Britney Spears (Britney's Dance Beat) Runners-up:
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| Most Frustrating Moment | ||
| Winner: Being picked up and carried around while playing The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Runners-up:
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| Most Memorable Gaming Moment of 2002 (Online Category) | ||
| Winner: Watching your Memory Card pretend to erase itself (Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem) Runners-up:
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| Cheesiest Line of Dialogue | ||
| Winner: "Doodle-Duh?" (Animal Crossing) Runners-up:
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| The Guilty Pleasure of 2002 | ||
| Winner: Tossing people through plate-glass windows in Minority Report: Everybody Runs Runners-up:
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