Ken Uston's Guide to...
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Ken Uston's Guide to Buying and Beating the Home Video Games was published in May 1982. The book, published by Signet in New York, was a brief strategy guide for many console games in existence at the time. The book was divided into chapters by console type or manufacturer, and each chapter had an article on each game title available for that console. The book was published in paperback, with 676 pages and illustrated throughout with black and white line drawings. Ken Uston was a blackjack player, and at the time this book was published, had already had six books in print.
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Books in this Series
Ken Uston Shows You Hot to Beat the Latest Video Games In
This is a box set of Ken Uston's first three video game books. It features the books "Ken Uston's Guide to Buying and Beating Home Video Games" ISBN: 0451119010, "Mastering Pac-Man (Expanded Edition)/{Revised Edition, on title page}" ISBN: 0451118995, and "Score! Beating the Top 16 Video Games" ISBN: 045111813.
Mastering Pac-Man
This is a tips and strategy guide to the arcade video game Pac-Man. It has many illustrations of the game screen, (not screenshots). It is designed to help players get better scores or simple play longer, by mapping out the mazes and showing the reader the paths and patterns to best maximize their playing. The book also looks at the portable versions of the game, and two very similar games, "New Puc-One", and "Mazeman". A {Revised Edition}, of the book was later released in 1982 which featured new material on the Ms. Pac-Man, and Atari 2600/Atari Video Entertainment System. This book was first avalible at the price of $1.95, and later in the Rvised Version at $2.50. It was also combined with two of his other Video Game books in a box set collection. Ken Uston Shows You Hot to Beat the Latest Video Games In: "Ken Uston's Guide to Buying and Beating Home Video Games", "Mastering Pac-Man", and "Score! Beating the Top 16 Video Games", ISBN: 0451912640. It was priced at $8.95.