Current Era
Today each Player’s Guide published features one specific game, much like the earlier Nintendo Power Strategy Guides. These Nintendo Power branded Player’s Guides are available 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 on-line 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
- Custom Robo
- 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 Requium
- Final Fantasy I & 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 & Luigi: Partners in Time
- Mario & 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
- Pokémon Battle Revolution
- Pokémon Colosseum
- Pokémon Crystal
- Pokémon Diamond and Pearl
- Pokémon Emerald
- Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen
- Pokémon Gold and Silver
- Pokémon Mystery Dungeon
- Pokémon Ranger
- Pokémon Red and Blue
- Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire
- Pokémon Snap
- Pokémon Stadium
- Pokémon Stadium 2
- Pokémon Trading Card Game
- Pokémon Special Edition: Red, Blue & Yellow
- Pokémon 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 Story
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