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Pokemon Trainer's Survival Guide (1998)

By bogusfrank

Pokemon Trainer's Survival Guide (1998)

29 downloads

0 comments

Submitted 11 hours ago
Mario Party 5 - Prima's Official Strategy Guide (2003)

By bogusfrank

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

58 downloads

0 comments

Submitted Wednesday at 01:41 PM
Duel Masters - Sempai Legends - Prima Official Game Guide (2004)

By bogusfrank

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

44 downloads

0 comments

Submitted Wednesday at 01:37 PM
Pokemon Ranger - The Official Nintendo Player's Guide (2006)

By bogusfrank

Pokemon Ranger - The Official Nintendo Player's Guide (2006)

62 downloads

0 comments

Submitted Tuesday at 03:16 PM
Pokemon Pocket Trainer's Guide (2004)

By bogusfrank

Pokemon Pocket Trainer's Guide (2004)

59 downloads

0 comments

Submitted Tuesday at 03:13 PM
Super Smash Brothers Brawl Prima Official Game Guide (2008)

By bogusfrank

Super Smash Brothers Brawl Prima Official Game Guide (2008)

70 downloads

0 comments

Submitted Tuesday at 02:58 PM
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)

67 downloads

0 comments

Submitted Tuesday at 02:52 PM
Yu-Gi-Oh - Worldwide Edition - Stairway to the Destined Duel (Prima's Official Strategy Guide)

By bogusfrank

Yu-Gi-Oh - Worldwide Edition - Stairway to the Destined Duel (Prima's Official Strategy Guide)

49 downloads

0 comments

Submitted Tuesday at 02:45 PM
Dragonball Z - The Legacy of Goku - Prima's Official Strategy Guide (2002)

By bogusfrank

Dragonball Z - The Legacy of Goku - Prima's Official Strategy Guide (2002)

49 downloads

0 comments

Submitted Tuesday at 02:43 PM
Official Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 Arcade Secrets

By MigJmz

Official Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 Arcade Secrets

156 downloads

2 comments

Submitted April 26
GamePro's Official NBA Jam Strategy Guide

By Argus

GamePro's Official NBA Jam Strategy Guide (1994)

116 downloads

0 comments

Submitted April 9
Final Fantasy IX Official Strategy Guide (BradyGames, 2001)

By E-Day

Final Fantasy IX Official Strategy Guide (BradyGames, 2001)

257 downloads

3 comments

Updated March 31
Castlevania - Symphony of the Night Official Guide (1997)

By E-Day

Castlevania - Symphony of the Night Official Guide (1997)

346 downloads

6 comments

Updated March 25
Onimusha 2 Prima Official Guide (2002)

By E-Day

Onimusha 2 Prima Official Guide (2002)

123 downloads

0 comments

Submitted March 24
Grand Theft Auto IV Brady Games Strategy Guide (2008)

By E-Day

Grand Theft Auto IV Brady Games Strategy Guide (2008)

203 downloads

2 comments

Submitted March 1
Gaunlet Dark Legacy Prima Official Strategy Guide (2001)

By E-Day

Gaunlet Dark Legacy Prima Official Strategy Guide (2001)

162 downloads

1 comment

Submitted February 27
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! ❤️

207 downloads

1 comment

Updated January 8
Quake II: The Unauthorized Guide

By Areala

What's more extreme than an unauthorized guide to the sequel to the biggest FPS on the planet?
NOTHING, THAT'S WHAT!
We've got black-and-white pages, we've got computer-drawn maps, we've got all the cheat codes, we've got an all-text walkthrough, we've got multiplayer strategies, and we've got an interview with John-F&@$ing-Romero's girlfriend-to-be-soon-to-be-ex-, the terror of the DeathMatch arena, Stevie 'KillCreek' Case herself! SHE IS A WOMAN, AND THIS TEXT IS AS CLOSE AS MOST OF YOU WILL EVER GET TO A GIRL, SO YOU HAD BETTER DOWNLOAD THIS GUIDE RIGHT NOW OR E-DAY WILL PERSONALLY DEFILE YOUR VERTICAL SMILE WITH A STEEL-WOOL-WRAPPED TOILET BRUSH!
*ahem*
Enjoy! ❤️

132 downloads

0 comments

Submitted January 2
E3 2004 Directory Official Exhibit Guide

By E-Day

E3 2004 Directory Official Exhibit Guide

157 downloads

1 comment

Submitted January 2
Quake Authorized Strategy Guide

By Areala

Flying into 2023 with this first release of the year, what could be more epic than another strategy guide for the behemoth FPS known as Quake?
Yeah, yeah, I know, almost anything else.
But it's Quake, so you're going to download this, you're going to slap the 'thank you' button to pay me my tribute, and you're going to wait for the next strategy guide with baited breath, because you all love me.
Happy New Year!
Enjoy! ❤️

182 downloads

0 comments

Submitted January 1
Quake Unauthorized Map Guide

By Areala

Sorry for the sticker and damage to the front cover. The book came this way when I bought it. Otherwise, the rest of the guide's in fine shape.
Except, wait a minute, I'm sorry..."Unofficial Map Guide"? I mean "Strategy Guide", right?
Nope. This is literally just a book of stage maps that point out where all the goodies and secrets are located. There aren't any hints for actually tackling the various areas or anything like that, just maps and how to access the secret areas. Prima put out an unofficial strategy guide for the game too (along with that abomination of a guide to the shareware version which I already inflicted upon you) which also sold well for them, meaning there were some lunatics who forked out over $50 for those three different books because they just loved Quake so much.
Well, you don't have to do that now, because I got yer "Unofficial Map Guide" right here, fanboys!
Download it, smack that 'Thanks' button, and pay me my tribute.
Enjoy! ❤️

124 downloads

0 comments

Submitted December 30, 2022
Chaos Island Official Strategy Guide

By Areala

A relatively rare guide for a relatively unknown game.
Chaos Island is sort of like Jurassic Park meets the RTS genre. It tasks you with guiding various characters from the film The Lost World around Isla Nublar to accomplish a variety of tasks to protect the dinosaurs from hunters, gather eggs and other resources, and avoid dying while you're doing it. Of all the games made under the JP license, this is one of the strangest. That, combined with the guide's own obscurity, made it an obvious choice for archival here.
Enjoy! ❤️

112 downloads

0 comments

Submitted December 29, 2022
3D Action Gamer's Bible

By Areala

Another entry in Prima's ubiquitous "Secrets of the Game" series. This one talks about first-person shooters, and contains minimal, text-only walkthroughs and cheat codes for Ultimate Doom, Doom II, Heretic, Hexen, Duke Nukem 3D, and Quake. Beyond the walkthroughs for the solo campaign, you get some tips and tricks for deathmatch, a chapter dedicated to using level editors for some of the aforementioned games along with general tips for making your own levels as interesting and fun as possible, and a final roundup of cheat codes for some other 3D action titles such as Dark Forces and Magic Carpet.
All in all, this isn't a terribly compelling book considering the lack of even a single screenshot to add zest to the presentation. There are even a couple of times where it directs the reader to visit a game's FAQ on Usenet or some of the various fan websites in order to get more information, which is an odd thing to tell the person who just paid $20 for your book, but OK...
The games it covers all received better, more full-featured strategy guides, complete with artwork and screenshots galore, so all that information can be found elsewhere with better presentation. If you want to design levels for these sorts of games, there were specific books written for that purpose for Doom, Quake, and Duke Nukem 3D, while larger and more advanced level design bibles like 3D Game Alchemy and Tricks of the Doom Programming Gurus exist to better fulfill that niche.
It's not a bad book, per se, and it's great from a historical perspective to have it preserved, it's just not all that exciting or interesting to either peruse or use. But now that it's out there, you can explore for yourself!
Enjoy! ❤️

132 downloads

2 comments

Submitted December 27, 2022
Diablo II Ultimate Strategy Guide

By Areala

There were multiple versions of this guide published and updated by BradyGames over the years. This particular edition is keyed to the Lord of Destruction expansion pack which came as part of the Diablo II Battle Chest boxed set. Since the guide makes no references to skill synergy bonuses but it does reference "the first patch", it likely corresponds to v1.08 of the game. Given the game's current edition is v1.14d, much of the information in this file will be outdated and inaccurate except to someone playing a pre-v1.10 copy in a solo campaign.
Enjoy! ❤️

218 downloads

3 comments

Updated December 23, 2022
Final Fantasy Chronicles - Final Fantasy IV BradyGames Guide

By MigJmz

Final Fantasy Chronicles - Final Fantasy IV BradyGames Guide
Chrono Trigger guide available here

323 downloads

4 comments

Updated December 1, 2022