Ken Uston's Guide to...

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.

This is a guide to five video game systems, and 185 game cartridges. Each system is reviewed in four sections; The Console, Consumer Tips, Controls, Our Experience. Each cartridge review usually has seven sections. 1. Evaluation, 2. Basic Objective, 3. and 4. Scenario and the board, 5. Controls, 6. and 7. Facts and Strategies You should Know. However the Astrocade, and Fairchild chapters do not have these sections and there is an all around review for each cartridge instead. Each cartridge has at least one screen illustration, and sometimes more, if the cartridge had more then one game on it. This book was 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.

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.