Walkthroughs! Strategy guides! Tips 'n' tricks! Capture! Koryaku! Search engine optimisation! This page may also include pack-in booklets with magazines, just for the hell of it.
It's already eaten enough space on the manuals section, so just visit the Bomberman Shrine Place for the plethora of guidebooks I've scanned for that franchise.
Raw scans can be found on MEGA. |
A guidebook for Arabian Dream Scheherazade (The Magic of Scheherazade) on Famicom, published by Tokuma Communications (徳間コミュニケーションズ). Features basic item and enemy info, as well as full maps. |
Raw scans can be found on MEGA and the Internet Archive. |
A guidebook for City Connection on Famicom, published by Futami Shobo (二見書房). Part of the Urawaza Taisenshu series of guidebooks sold in box sets. [src] Features strategies for all stages. |
Raw scans can be found on MEGA. |
A guidebook for Croc! Pau Pau Island (Croc: Legend of the Gobbos) on PlayStation, published by Aspect (アスペクト). Features screenshot-walkthroughs for all stages, as well as unique 2D illustrations for all the enemies and bosses. |
Raw scans can be found on MEGA. |
A guidebook for Dairantou Smash Bros. (Super Smash Bros.) on Nintendo 64, published by Shogakukan (小学館). Features movesets and Classic Mode strategies for each character, and that's kind of it. It's not even an exhaustive resource of official artwork either! What a con! |
Raw scans can be found on MEGA. |
A guidebook for Donkey Kong on Game Boy, published by APE Inc. (エイプ・小学館). Features walkthroughs for all the stages and an interview with the game's staff. More importantly, features some lovely illustrations by Benimaru Itoh (伊藤紅丸), including a front cover in the vein of Big Brother and the Holding Company's "Cheap Thrills" album cover by R. Crumb. The manga (scanned by @imtherealgibbon) was kindly translated into English by MiloScat and HorseyPope. |
Raw scans can be found on MEGA. |
A guidebook for Mario & Wario on Super Famicom, published by APE Inc. (エイプ・小学館). Features maps and strategies for all stages, in addition to silly stuff like a Q&A between Mario and Wario, sheet music and lyrics for the game's theme, a "which character are you?" quiz, and words from the game's development staff. |
Raw scans can be found on MEGA. |
A guidebook for Mario Kart 64 on Nintendo 64, published by Shogakukan (小学館). Maps and strategies and all that gubbins, plus some unique illustrations. |
Three tie-in books for Mario's Picross on Game Boy and Super Nintendo, published by APE Inc. (エイプ・小学館). Features a whole bunch of picross puzzles to solve, but it's also got a bunch of Benimaru Itoh (伊藤紅丸) art and manga. What would you rather have? The manga was kindly translated into English by MiloScat and HorseyPope. |
Raw scans can be found on MEGA. |
A guidebook for Star Fox 64 on Nintendo 64, published by Kodansha (講談社). Features maps and walkthroughs for all stages of the story mode, and a mere two pages of multi-player strategies. |
Raw scans can be found on MEGA. |
A guidebook for Star Fox Assault on GameCube, published by Enterbrain (エンターブレイン). Includes weapon and enemy data, and bulletpointed maps and walkthroughs for each single-player stage. No multi-player strategies, sorry! |
Raw scans can be found on MEGA. |
A pack-in booklet with the No.4 1993 issue of Dengeki Super Famicom (電撃スーパーファミコン), dated March 13th. Contains a basic walkthrough as well as a featurette on polygonal technology and an interview with Hiroyuki Takahashi (高橋 宏之) of Shining Force fame... but nuts to all that, it's got eight pages of Star Fox manga!! MiloScat and HorseyPope kindly translated the manga into English: MEGA / Flickr |
Raw scans can be found on MEGA. |
A guidebook for Star Fox on Super Famicom, published by Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha (実業之日本社). Includes maps and layouts for all stages. The cute illustrations are only on the cover, unfortunately. Boo. |
Raw scans can be found on MEGA. |
A guidebook for Super Donkey Kong on Super Famicom, published by Keibunsha (恵文社). Features hand-drawn maps for every level in the game, as well as some silly original illustrations. |
Raw scans can be found on MEGA. |
A pack-in booklet with the January 1996 issue of Famitsu Bros. (ファミ通ブロス). Contains a basic walkthrough for the first four worlds of Donkey Kong Country 2, with original illustrations of Diddy, Dixie and the bosses. |
Two guidebooks for Super Mario Bros. 3 on Famicom, published by Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha (実業之日本社). Sokuhou-Ban is a hot-off-the-presses "quick report" of the game, with maps and tips for the first four worlds, and the scantest of information on everything else. The Kanzenhan is a more robust version with extensive info on the rest of the game. Also, lots of cute illustrations. |
Raw scans can be found on MEGA. |
A guidebook for Super Mario All-Stars published by APE Inc. (エイプ・小学館). Features maps and info for all four games in the game, as well as a series of 4-koma from a variety of authors and special features, including an interview with Shigeru Miyamoto. The 4-koma was kindly translated into English by MiloScat and HorseyPope. |
Raw scans can be found on MEGA. |
A guidebook for Super Mario Kart published by APE Inc. (エイプ・小学館). Features strategies and statistics for courses, characters and items, and also features artwork and manga by Benimaru Itoh (伊藤紅丸). The manga was kindly translated into English by MiloScat and HorseyPope. |
Raw scans can be found on MEGA. |
A guidebook for Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins on Game Boy, published by APE Inc. (エイプ・小学館). Features full level maps and enemy data, as well as an interview with the game's staff and a prose prologue with illustrations by Benimaru Itoh (伊藤紅丸). |
Raw scans can be found on MEGA. |
A guidebook for Super Mario RPG on Super Famicom, published by Aspect (アスペクト). A follow-up to the Super Mario RPG: Gift From The Starry Sky (スーパーマリオRPG 星空からのおくりもの) guidebook, this focuses primarily on secrets and hidden goodies found off the beaten track. Includes maps with spotlighted secrets, and extensive enemy and item data. |
Raw scans can be found on MEGA. |
A guidebook for Super Mario World on Super Famicom, published by Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha (実業之日本社). A fully-mapped walkthrough with data on all levels and enemies, as well as a bunch of cute illustrations. |
Two guidebooks for Super Mario World published by APE Inc. (エイプ・小学館) on January and July 1991. Customary to APE's early books, it's full of extensive maps, quirky page design and oddball bonus content, including a look at Nintendo's history in Japan and America, interviews with the staff, and a variety of comics and 4-koma. MiloScat and HorseyPope kindly translated the manga from both volumes into English: MEGA / Flickr |
Raw scans can be found on MEGA. |
A guidebook for Super Princess Peach on Nintendo DS, published by Shogakukan (小学館). Features an extensive enemy data chart, mini-game tips, item locations, and full maps for every screen in the game. |
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