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Ultimate Unauthorized Nintendo Game Strategies


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A 1989 NES book published by Bantam, likely pushed out to capitalize on the success of Jeff Rovin's How to Win at Nintendo Games from St. Martin's Press. This is mostly text with the occasional screenshot or box artwork thrown in, but either their screen capture tech was too primitive, or Bantam's monochrome printing process wasn't set up to handle pictures, because the screenshots from this book look awful.

Also, the margins in my copy of this book are seriously wacky. You'll see text running almost straight to the edge of the page in some sections, while others give plenty of space for the text. This is an issue with the printing of the book, not me being a klutz with the cropping tool, but I still apologize for how the text waffles and flies all over the place as you're scrolling through.

That said, the book is amusing for Sandler and Badgett's witty asides and commentary on the games they are covering. It's one of the very few books from this era to cover Friday the 13th, and it also features write-ups with mock artwork for several NES titles which never came to fruition. I've never seen these games mentioned in any other publication of the era, so it's an important historical artifact from that perspective alone, confirming that Matchbox at one time was working on creating NES software (or at least paying someone else to do so).

In any case, this kicked off a successful series for Bantam, who followed this up with three additional volumes on NES games, along with books related to Game Boy, Genesis, Game Gear, and Super Nintendo hardware, many of which went through multiple print runs and editions.

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As with other scans of mine, there are several blank pages throughout the book which have been eliminated in order to decrease the file size and maintain the flow of a digital version. The last six pages of the book, in fact, are blank on both sides. And, sadly, the money-saving coupons have all since expired. Too bad. :)

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Oh my god, now this - THIS is a crown jewel.

I received this book as a Christmas present in 1989. I loved it. LOOOOOOOOOOVED it. I had never seen such a lengthy, detailed, relatively mature exploration of not one, not two, not ten, but four hundred billion NES games. As an 11 year-old who consumed Nintendo like the highest grade street crack (which I also consumed) this book was mind-blowing. There was just SO much information, SO many pages, SO much game coverage, that I couldn't put it down. It was almost like the Wikipedia of Nintendo gaming before Wikipedia.

I still have my copy (picked up the next two editions as well) and will never get rid of it. I TREASURED this book. This couldn't have been easy to scan but man, thank you so much for doing so. I am so thrilled to have a digital copy of it.

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