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Nintendo Player's Guide

April 12, 2024

The Nintendo Player’s Guides are a series of video game strategy guides from Nintendo based on Nintendo Power magazine.

Original format edit

The first Player's Guide was simply named The Official Nintendo Player's Guide, featuring dozens of different NES games. The following 22 games were covered in depth, with enemy descriptions, level maps, and strategy tips.

Screenshots and short descriptions of other games were also included.

The Official Nintendo Player's Guide was followed in the early 1990s by a number of publications, which were produced under the slightly different moniker of Nintendo Power Strategy Guides. These were sent between the then bi-monthly magazine issues to subscribers or mailed alongside them. Nintendo Entertainment System games covered by their Strategy Guides included:

Nintendo ceased production of these bimonthly Strategy Guides due to a lack of important game releases in the pre-holiday seasons of the year.

Player's Guide edit

After converting Nintendo Power to a monthly format came the more well-known mainstay of Player's Guides. Early guides covered groups of games in one book. These books covered strategy for:

Outside of offering an optional Player's Guide as a free gift for a Nintendo Power subscription or subscription renewal, Nintendo Power did not include Player's Guides with the magazine. They were, however, made available separately, both through mail-order and at book and video-game shops. Nintendo did also once offer a subscription motive that included four of the aforementioned Player's Guides instead of only one.

Following these four Player's Guides, a fifth was released to Nintendo Power subscribers entitled Top Secret Passwords, containing passwords for a wide variety of NES, SNES, and Game Boy games. While initially billed as a subscriber exclusive, this guide was eventually sold at retailers.

Later era edit

In its later years, each Player's Guide published features one specific game, much like the earlier Nintendo Power Strategy Guides. These Nintendo Power branded Player's Guides were available (with the exception of the Square-published Chrono Trigger) only for Nintendo-published games, but the concept is now emulated by other publishing companies such as Brady Games or Prima for major releases on all video game consoles. Almost all major video games released today will have one or more official Guides associated with them.

While the rise of the World Wide Web and the increasing availability of free on-line FAQs and walkthroughs has taken away some of the need for commercial strategy guides, there is still a market for them. Guides often feature extensive picture-by-picture walkthroughs, maps, game art, and other visual features that cannot be provided by a bare text online walkthrough.

Among the games that have been given Nintendo Player's Guides:

Discontinuation edit

Around mid-2007, Nintendo discontinued the series after the publication of the guide for Pokémon Battle Revolution.[citation needed]

This end of guide production was apparently due to the impending switch from in-house publication of NP to publication by Future US, which occurred in November 2007.

In an issue of Nintendo Power, an NP subscriber wrote to Nintendo, asking about the status of the Player's Guide series. Nintendo replied that the series is indeed discontinued indefinitely.[citation needed] They also pointed out that Prima Games was their official partner for making strategy guides, which they have been making for the aforementioned recent releases. Additionally, Prima made special strategy guides for The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass and Mario Kart Wii. These guides were released exclusively as bonuses for Nintendo Power subscriptions or renewals. These guides even carry the label "Special Digest Version: Supplement to Nintendo Power Magazine".[citation needed]

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This article relies largely or entirely on a single source Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page Please help improve this article by introducing citations to additional sources Find sources Nintendo Player s Guide news newspapers books scholar JSTOR December 2017 The Nintendo Player s Guides are a series of video game strategy guides from Nintendo based on Nintendo Power magazine Contents 1 Original format 2 Player s Guide 3 Later era 4 Discontinuation 5 See also 6 External linksOriginal format editThe first Player s Guide was simply named The Official Nintendo Player s Guide featuring dozens of different NES games The following 22 games were covered in depth with enemy descriptions level maps and strategy tips The Legend of Zelda Mike Tyson s Punch Out Commando Super Mario Bros Top Gun Ghosts and Goblins Double Dribble Zelda II The Adventure of Link Metroid Rad Racer Ring King Kid Icarus Pro Wrestling Castlevania Excitebike Arkanoid Rush n Attack Rygar Ikari Warriors Spy Hunter The Goonies 2 Kung Fu Screenshots and short descriptions of other games were also included The Official Nintendo Player s Guide was followed in the early 1990s by a number of publications which were produced under the slightly different moniker of Nintendo Power Strategy Guides These were sent between the then bi monthly magazine issues to subscribers or mailed alongside them Nintendo Entertainment System games covered by their Strategy Guides included Super Mario Bros 3 Ninja Gaiden II The Dark Sword of Chaos Final Fantasy 4 Player Extra which covered multiple four player games on the NESNintendo ceased production of these bimonthly Strategy Guides due to a lack of important game releases in the pre holiday seasons of the year Player s Guide editAfter converting Nintendo Power to a monthly format came the more well known mainstay of Player s Guides Early guides covered groups of games in one book These books covered strategy for NES Game Atlas Castlevania Castlevania II Simon s Quest Castlevania III Dracula s Curse Chip n Dale Rescue Rangers DuckTales The Legend of Zelda Mega Man Mega Man 2 Mega Man 3 Ninja Gaiden Ninja Gaiden II StarTropics Super Mario Bros Super Mario Bros 2 Super Mario Bros 3 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II The Arcade Game Zelda II The Adventure of Link Game Boy Batman Castlevania The Adventure Cosmo Tank Days of Thunder Double Dragon Dr Mario DuckTales F 1 Race Final Fantasy Legend Fortified Zone Gargoyle s Quest Golf Gremlins 2 The New Batch The Hunt for Red October Kwirk Nemesis Operation C Quarth R Type Revenge of the Gator Super Mario Land Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Fall of the Foot Clan SolarStriker Solomon s Club Super R C Pro Am Sword of Hope Tetris Ultima Runes of Virtue Mario Mania Super Mario World along with a history of the character Mario Super Nintendo Entertainment System ActRaiser Bill Laimbeer s Combat Basketball The Chessmaster Darius Twin Drakkhen Extra Innings F Zero Final Fantasy II Final Fight Gradius III Home Alone HyperZone Joe amp Mac John Madden s Football Hal s Hole in One Golf Lagoon Legend of the Mystical Ninja The Legend of Zelda A Link to the Past Miracle Piano Teaching System Nolan Ryan s Baseball Paperboy 2 Pilotwings Pit Fighter Populous RPM Racing SimCity Smash TV Super Bases Loaded Super Baseball Simulator 1 000 Super CastleVania IV Super Ghouls n Ghosts Super Mario World Super Off Road Super R Type Super Tennis True Golf Classics Waialae Country Club Ultraman Towards the Future U N Squadron Ys III Wanderers from Ys Top Secret PasswordsOutside of offering an optional Player s Guide as a free gift for a Nintendo Power subscription or subscription renewal Nintendo Power did not include Player s Guides with the magazine They were however made available separately both through mail order and at book and video game shops Nintendo did also once offer a subscription motive that included four of the aforementioned Player s Guides instead of only one Following these four Player s Guides a fifth was released to Nintendo Power subscribers entitled Top Secret Passwords containing passwords for a wide variety of NES SNES and Game Boy games While initially billed as a subscriber exclusive this guide was eventually sold at retailers Later era editIn its later years each Player s Guide published features one specific game much like the earlier Nintendo Power Strategy Guides These Nintendo Power branded Player s Guides were available with the exception of the Square published Chrono Trigger only for Nintendo published games but the concept is now emulated by other publishing companies such as Brady Games or Prima for major releases on all video game consoles Almost all major video games released today will have one or more official Guides associated with them While the rise of the World Wide Web and the increasing availability of free on line FAQs and walkthroughs has taken away some of the need for commercial strategy guides there is still a market for them Guides often feature extensive picture by picture walkthroughs maps game art and other visual features that cannot be provided by a bare text online walkthrough Among the games that have been given Nintendo Player s Guides Animal Crossing Animal Crossing Wild World Advance Wars Dual Strike Advance Wars 2 Black Hole Rising Banjo Kazooie Banjo Tooie Battalion Wars Chrono Trigger Conker s Bad Fur Day Diddy Kong Racing Donkey Kong 64 Donkey Kong Country Donkey Kong Country Game Boy Advance version Donkey Kong Country 2 Diddy s Kong Quest Donkey Kong Country 3 Dixie Kong s Double Trouble EarthBound Eternal Darkness Sanity s Requiem Final Fantasy I amp II Dawn of Souls Final Fantasy III VI Final Fantasy IV Advance Final Fantasy V Advance Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Final Fantasy Tactics Advance Fire Emblem Game Boy Advance version Fire Emblem Path of Radiance Fire Emblem The Sacred Stones F Zero GX GoldenEye 007 Golden Sun The Lost Age Jet Force Gemini Killer Instinct The Legend of Zelda Collector s Edition The Legend of Zelda Four Swords Adventures The Legend of Zelda Link s Awakening The Legend of Zelda A Link to the Past The Legend of Zelda A Link to the Past Four Swords The Legend of Zelda Majora s Mask The Legend of Zelda The Minish Cap The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time The Legend of Zelda Oracle of Seasons and Oracle of Ages The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess The Legend of Zelda The Wind Waker Luigi s Mansion Mario amp Luigi Partners in Time Mario amp Luigi Superstar Saga Mario Kart 64 Mario Kart Double Dash Mario Paint Metroid Fusion Metroid Prime Metroid Prime 2 Echoes Metroid Prime Hunters Metroid Zero Mission New Super Mario Bros Nintendogs Paper Mario Paper Mario The Thousand Year Door Perfect Dark Pikmin Pikmin 2 Pokemon Battle Revolution Pokemon Colosseum Pokemon Crystal Pokemon Diamond and Pearl Pokemon Emerald Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen Pokemon Gold and Silver Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Pokemon Ranger Pokemon Red and Blue Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire Pokemon Snap Pokemon Stadium Pokemon Stadium 2 Pokemon Trading Card Game Pokemon Special Edition Red Blue amp Yellow Pokemon XD Gale of Darkness Star Fox 64 Star Fox Adventures Star Fox Assault Star Wars Episode I Racer Star Wars Rogue Squadron Star Wars Rogue Squadron II Rogue Leader Star Wars Rogue Squadron III Rebel Strike Street Fighter II Turbo Super Game Boy Super Mario 64 Super Mario Advance 4 Super Mario Bros 3 Super Mario All Stars Super Mario RPG Legend of the Seven Stars Super Mario Sunshine Super Mario World 2 Yoshi s Island Super Metroid Super Paper Mario Super Smash Bros Melee Sword of Mana Wario World Wave Race Blue Storm Yoshi s Island DS Yoshi s Island Super Mario Advance 3 Yoshi s StoryDiscontinuation editThis section possibly contains original research Please improve it by verifying the claims made and adding inline citations Statements consisting only of original research should be removed September 2020 Learn how and when to remove this template message Around mid 2007 Nintendo discontinued the series after the publication of the guide for Pokemon Battle Revolution citation needed This end of guide production was apparently due to the impending switch from in house publication of NP to publication by Future US which occurred in November 2007 In an issue of Nintendo Power an NP subscriber wrote to Nintendo asking about the status of the Player s Guide series Nintendo replied that the series is indeed discontinued indefinitely citation needed They also pointed out that Prima Games was their official partner for making strategy guides which they have been making for the aforementioned recent releases Additionally Prima made special strategy guides for The Legend of Zelda Phantom Hourglass and Mario Kart Wii These guides were released exclusively as bonuses for Nintendo Power subscriptions or renewals These guides even carry the label Special Digest Version Supplement to Nintendo Power Magazine citation needed See also editGame Boy line Nintendo DS Nintendo Entertainment System Nintendo GameCube Nintendo 64 Super Nintendo Entertainment System WiiExternal links editArchived Nintendo Player s Guide on the Internet Archive Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Nintendo Player 27s Guide amp oldid 1181782180, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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