Tips & Tricks Issue 85

PRIMARY SYSTEMS COVERAGE

• Nintendo 64
• Sony Playstation
• Sony Playstation 2
• Nintendo Game Boy
• Nintendo Game Boy Color
• Nintendo Game Boy Advance
• Nintendo Gamecube
• Microsoft Xbox
• Sega Dreamcast
• Sega Saturn

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STRATEGIES

• Maximo: Ghosts to Glory (PS2; 6 pages including 'Making Maximo: Tips & Tricks interviews the game's creators' sidebar)
• Mega Man X6 (PS; 8 pages)
• Pikmin (GC; 6 pages)
• Star Wars: Obi-Wan (XB; 6 pages)

DEPARTMENTS

Readers' Tips (letters column)

T&T Select Games

(1-page (unless noted) game overviews with screenshots; readers would select games from this section for future strategy coverage in T&T:)

• Soccer Slam (GC)
• Aliens: Colonial Marines (PS2)
  
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• Virtua Fighter 4 (PS2)
• Resident Evil (GC)
• Pac-Man World 2 (PS2)
• Star Fox Adventures: Dinosaur Planet (GC)
• Gun Valkyrie (XB)
• Outlaw Golf (XB)
  
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• Hot Shots Golf 3 (PS2)
• Gun Metal (PS2)
• Arcade Advanced (GBA)
• Broken Sword (GBA)
• Bomberman Max (GBA)
• Resident Evil Gaiden (GBC)
   
• Game Track! (upcoming releases list)

Pencil Puzzles (2 puzzles) - Pencil Puzzle A | Pencil Puzzle B

Hint Hotlines (game tip phone number directory)

Tournament Report (2 pages; South Florida Challenge 2, Golfland CVS2 Tournament, MVC2 Upset!, player rankings, tournament calendar)

Sports Desk (approx. 1/2 page (unless noted) strategy per game)

• NBA Courtside 2002 (GC; approx. 1 page)
• NBA 2K2 (XB)
• ESPN International Winter Sports 2002 (XB)
• FIFA Soccer 2002 (PS)

Hard Core (two pages of reader-submitted Armored Core designs)

Collector's Closet (one page of retro coverage; 'Solving The Storage Dilemma;' 'Room of Doom')

Japan Report! (2-pages; Japanese products, games and culture; 'Xbox Comes To Japan' feature)

Cool Zone (3-pages; cool products, gaming and non-gaming)

CODES

(T&T prided itself on its tip count - this issue contains 3200 tips collected in the pages listed here, sorted by system. This issue's Codes section features a number of varied footer bars - see the full breakdown below)

• Playstation 2 (4 pages)
• Gamecube (1 page)
• Xbox (1 page)
• Playstation (6 pages)
• Nintendo 64 (6 pages)
• Game Boy Advance (2 pages)
• Game Boy (2 pages)
• Dreamcast (4 pages)
• GameShark (PS, PS2, GBC, GBA; 2 pages)

(Running footer bars:)

• Adventures in Controller Design (Xbox 'Duke' controller modified; original convex buttons replaced by Saturn concave)
• Maximo: Ghost to Glory (interview, continued)
• Tips & Tricks Reader Art Gallery