Book 1990
Ultimate Unauthorized Nintendo Game Boy Strategies
2 readers
- Publisher
- Bantam
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1990
- Game Boy video games
- Video games
- Computer games
- Handbooks, manuals
- Electronic games
- Nintendo video games
This is a hints, tips, reviews, and stategy guide to Game Boy games, and initially also a look at stand alone hand held games made by Acclaim Entertainment and Konami. There were 41 games reviewed in the books main section, many of which have a gray-scale screenshot. There were 21 previews for new games some of which had screenshots. two further editions were released a '2nd Edition', and a '3rd Edition', which dropped the reviews of other handheld games and by the 3rd Edition ended up with 79 reviews and 23 Mini-Hints. Each of the main games reviewed had some of the following sections for each game; 'Control Pad', 'Basic Moves', 'Playing the Game', 'Scoring', 'Screen Display', and other related sections followed by the strategies, tips, passwords, cheat codes and the like. The '3rd Edition' also included a rating on these game's 'Graphics/Sound', Response/Playability', 'Fun', and 'Ultimate Score' listing, along with a one sentance overview, at the start of each game review. The first two editions of the book were in large trade paperback size, while the '3rd Edition' was released in a small massmarket size.