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Duel Masters - Sempai Legends - Prima Official Game Guide (2004)

By bogusfrank

Duel Masters - Sempai Legends - Prima Official Game Guide (2004)

129 downloads

0 comments

Submitted June 7, 2023
E3 2004 Directory Official Exhibit Guide

By E-Day

E3 2004 Directory Official Exhibit Guide

239 downloads

1 comment

Submitted January 2, 2023
Fear Effect - Prima's Official Art Book

By E-Day

Fear Effect - Prima's Official Art Book

557 downloads

0 comments

Submitted February 6, 2021
Fighting Force 64 Hint Book

By E-Day

Fighting Force 64 Hint Book

273 downloads

0 comments

Submitted February 7, 2021
Game Boy Game Secrets, 2001 Edition

By Areala

Another solid game compilation guide, this time from Prima, who seemed to do better at these kinds of things than Brady much of the time. This covers a slew of great games that most people would be interested in playing: top-notch stuff like Link's Awakening DX, Donkey Kong Country, two Wario Land titles, and even contains a bit about the Game Boy Camera peripheral. It's nothing mind-blowing, but the production value is high, there are plenty of full-color screen captures, and the writing for the walkthroughs is on point and descriptive. Well worth the download, IMO.
Donated by ModernZorker.
Enjoy! ❤️

659 downloads

2 comments

Submitted February 16, 2022
Gaunlet Dark Legacy Prima Official Strategy Guide (2001)

By E-Day

Gaunlet Dark Legacy Prima Official Strategy Guide (2001)

304 downloads

2 comments

Submitted February 27, 2023
Granstream Saga, The - Prima's Official Strategy Guide

By E-Day

The Granstream Saga - Prima's Official Strategy Guide

454 downloads

0 comments

Updated August 13, 2021
Heretic: The Official Strategy Guide

By Areala

Written by Ed Dille, who was responsible for a number of guides for Prima, including Doom II: The Official Strategy Guide. In fact, a number of the Deathmatch and Co-op tactics in this book are lifted straight from that guide. In fairness, Heretic runs on a slightly modified Doom engine, and the goals revolve around shooting things until they're no longer moving so there's no real need to re-invent the wheel here.
What hasn't carried over is Dille's frustrated drill instructor persona, replaced here by one of Mustafa, a powerful wizard and historian out to offer you, his novice trainees, the information to succeed in their dangerous quest. He's dialed it down a notch here, which will either be welcoming or disappointing depending on how you enjoyed the style of the Doom guide.
Aside from that, every level gets its own map and walkthrough, and the book ends with a series of appendices describing everything from running Heretic from the command line to setting up a service like DWANGO for modem-to-modem play. Oh, how far we've come...

Enjoy! ❤️

341 downloads

1 comment

Updated December 20, 2023
Hybrid Heaven - Prima's Official Strategy Guide

By E-Day

Hybrid Heaven - Prima's Official Strategy Guide

446 downloads

0 comments

Submitted May 4, 2020
Jade Cocoon - Story of the Tamamayu - Prima's Offical Strategy Guide

By E-Day

Jade Cocoon - Story of the Tamamayu - Prima's Offical Strategy Guide

731 downloads

1 comment

Submitted May 4, 2020
Kagero - Deception II - Prima's Offical Strategy Guide

By E-Day

Kagero - Deception II - Prima's Offical Strategy Guide

370 downloads

0 comments

Submitted May 5, 2020
Legend of Legaia - Prima's Official Guide

By MigJmz

Legend of Legaia - Prima's Official Guide

802 downloads

2 comments

Submitted April 23, 2022
Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past Game Secrets

By Areala

This was the first book Zach Meston wrote for Prima without Rusel DeMaria's name associated with it. If the introduction is to be believed, DeMaria handed the project to Meston and told him to go forth and kick ass, which is what Meston did.
This is the first of two versions of this book published. This one contains the walkthrough for The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, but also contains a supplementary section that reprints the entries on The Legend of Zelda and Zelda II: The Adventure of Link which previously appeared in their NES Game Secrets series. For $9.99, you get full walkthroughs for three awesome games, making it a great value for the money. Unsurprisingly, this book was a massive seller for Prima, reprinted over twenty times.
The second version, which was released in 1997, altered the title slightly, redid the cover art, and dropped the Zelda and Zelda II portion of the book, replacing it instead with the walkthrough for Link's Awakening which used the same format as similar walkthroughs from their Nintendo Game Boy Secrets line, and again sold a ridiculous number of copies. Don't worry; I'll have that one up for you here shortly.
Enjoy! ❤️

590 downloads

5 comments

Updated December 20, 2023
Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past Unauthorized Game Secrets

By Areala

This is the second edition of Prima's A Link to the Past strategy guide. This book was a massive best-seller for Prima. It was re-printed more than twenty times (this particular edition is a 22nd printing from 1997, which, it should be noted, is well into the PlayStation and Nintendo 64 era) and sold in excess of 125,000 copies.
The first edition of the guide contained strategies and walkthroughs for The Legend of Zelda and Zelda II: The Adventure of Link. Those were dropped for this edition, but replaced with a walkthrough for Link's Awakening on the Game Boy. This lowered the page count, but not the cover price. Cheeky of you, Prima...
Enjoy! ❤️

607 downloads

3 comments

Updated December 20, 2023
Los Angeles E3 - Prima's Official Strategy Guide (1999)

By E-Day

Los Angeles E3 - Prima's Official Strategy Guide (1999)

283 downloads

0 comments

Submitted February 23, 2021
Mario Kart Double Dash - Prima's Official Strategy Guide (Prima's Official Strategy Guide)

By bogusfrank

Mario Kart Double Dash - Prima's Official Strategy Guide (Prima's Official Strategy Guide)

368 downloads

0 comments

Submitted June 6, 2023
Mario Kart Super Circuit - Prima's Official Strategy Guide

By dablais

Mario Kart Super Circuit - Prima's Official Strategy Guide

246 downloads
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0 comments

Updated November 10, 2023
Mario Kart Wii - Prima Official Game Guide (2008) [Wii]

By dablais

Mario Kart Wii - Prima Official Game Guide (2008)
Platform: Nintendo Wii

165 downloads
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Submitted March 18
Mario Party 5 - Prima's Official Strategy Guide (2003)

By bogusfrank

Mario Party 5 - Prima's Official Strategy Guide (2003)

226 downloads

0 comments

Submitted June 7, 2023
Master of Magic: The Official Strategy Guide

By Areala

This is a testament to how useful a well-written game guide can be. Master of Magic is an incredibly complex and deep RPG/turn-based strategy hybrid, easily capable of overwhelming novice players before they've had a chance to get a handle on the rules. More than a simple walkthrough, this behemoth of a guide explains everything you never even knew you wanted to know about the game: its units, spells, weapons, monsters, diplomacy, missions, everything.
It was one of the most popular titles of its ilk in the 90s, and remains accessible to this day thanks to being re-released on platforms like GOG and Steam, which include a number of quality-of-life improvements and bug fixes. This is a gold-standard guide book, pretty much the opposite of Complete Final Fantasy III Forbidden Game Secrets, written in conjunction with people who actually made the game to ensure every bit of it is accurate down to the last decimal place.
Blank pages have been omitted in order to reduce file size.
Long out of print, commanding a price ten times that of the game itself, your Retromags Goddess has lovingly sacrificed her copy to the guillotine so that players everywhere no longer have to scrape together fifty bucks or more to access it. You can show your love by leaving her a like.
Enjoy! ❤️

592 downloads

5 comments

Updated December 20, 2023
Mega Man Legends Hint Book

By E-Day

Mega Man Legends Hint Book

660 downloads

0 comments

Submitted February 24, 2021
Mega Man X Official Game Secrets (1994)

By Argus

Mega Man X Official Game Secrets (1994)

289 downloads

2 comments

Submitted October 14, 2023
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000 - Prima's Unauthorized Strategy Guide (1999)

By Argus

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000 - Prima's Unauthorized Strategy Guide (1999)

110 downloads

0 comments

Submitted August 13, 2023
Mission Impossible - Prima's Official Strategy Guide

By E-Day

Mission Impossible - Prima's Official Strategy Guide

373 downloads

0 comments

Submitted May 9, 2020
Nightmare Creatures - Prima's Official Strategy Guide

By E-Day

Nightmare Creatures - Prima's Official Strategy Guide

535 downloads

1 comment

Submitted May 13, 2020