While Volume 18 was the November/December 1990 issue, Volume 19 was released at the end of the year and is another strategy guide, this time on 4-player games on the NES. Nintendo's reputation as being good with multiplayer (well, except for maybe the SNES) goes back to NES, where (I believe) was the first home console to do such a thing, though not natively (you needed a peripheral to go up to four players), with this strategy guide all about four-player action, what you'll need, and what games support it. At publication time, the games that were compatible (and were listed) included Championship Bowling, Gauntlet II, Kings of the Beach, M.U.L.E., NES Play Action Football, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Nintendo World Cup, Spot: The Video Game, Super Off Road, Super Spike V'Ball, Swords and Serpents, and Top Players' Tennis "with more on the way". Ultimately, there were around a dozen more titles released in the next year or two. The strategy guide has sections for NES Play Action Football, Gauntlet II (port of a four-player arcade game by Atari Games), Nintendo World Cup, Swords and Serpents, Super Spike V'Ball, Ivan "Ironman" Stewart's Super Off-Road, and smaller sections for the rest. M.U.L.E. is covered (it was in the Now Playing section for Nintendo Power and I don't believe it had any coverage otherwise) but it's only a quarter of a page. And that's it!

Unlike Super Mario Bros. 3, which saw its strategy guide release soon after its cover feature, Ivan "Ironman" Stewart's Super Off-Road and NES Play Action Football were covered back in Volume 9, before the delays of NES Play Action Football were announced.

This would be the last of the "Nintendo Power Strategy Guides" but in 1991 we'll be reintroduced to the Nintendo Player's Guide series. From here on out, it's just going to be regular issues with the usual features.

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