Nintendo Strategies

Here's something I got from my cousins: an old unofficial Nintendo strategy guide. Not covered by |tsr's nes archive, this little guide has about 30 games covered, with two pages each (lots of wasted space, however, mind you).

Having not really seen any NES strategy guides of that era, this guide basically gives you a few tips on certain Nintendo games. Sadly, the tips are not that great: for Super Mario Bros., it only gives a few tips on what has become legend: infinite one-ups, and the locations to the Warp Zones. And for Skate or Die, it basically sums up that all you need is practice (many of these games were about timing). Having not played many of these games, there are no major inaccuracies I could tell, except for two: you can go up to 128 lives for Mario (not 100) before dying, and they refer to Birdo (Super Mario Bros. 2) as "the dragon". Okay.

The cover is weird (as always from that era). You can see a rather impish-looking Link, some vegetables from Mario 2, and what looks like Big Bird in a flying car (seriously, can't figure that one out).

This was published in 1989 and was backed by Consumer Guide, oddly enough (though the name isn't on the cover).