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Secrets of the Games

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About Author

Rusel DeMaria

Rusel DeMaria is the pen-name of Russell Ehrman. He began writing computer related articles in the late 1980's and published a few books on computers, contributed to magazines such as 'Computer Play', 'GamePro' and 'Personal Computer Games', advancing to Editor for both of the latter two. In 1990 he was contacted by Ben Dominitz of Prima Publishing to produce a series of video game books. He became creative-director of the videogames books. The Prima video game series went under two titles, Prima Publishing's 'Secrets of the Games', and 'Game Buster: Get a Clue', before shorting their production titles to simply "Prima Games". He had his first bestseller with the release of the 'Myst: Official Strategy Guide', which he co-wrote with Rick Barba. He became involved more with the design of games over the years, and wrote the fictional story "The Farlander Papers", which takes place in the Star Wars universe and was a limited Edition booklet that was released with the PC game "Star Wars: X-wing", much of the story was re-released in the Strategy Guide for that game also written by DeMaria. He worked as assistant director for game designer David Perry, and has since spent most of his time in game design, teaching and lecturing on games. [Sources: Wikipedia; Atari H.Q. Interview with Zach Meston; Wookieepedia, Star Wars related news and Bio of author; Interview with Rusel DeMaria By BingeGamer.Net; Interview with author about his book "Rest". * Interview with Rusel DeMaria on his book "Public Domain Software"; ]

Description

This is a walkthrough, hints, tips, and strategy guide book for the "Sega Genesis" video game system, it features 18 in depth walkthroughs, and tips for 4 other games. At the begining of the book, the author introduces the video game system, and in the last chapter, he describes various ways parents can handle video games, and interact with their children. There are grey scale screenshots and the occational composite maps. The book was originally sold at $9.95.

How the series evolves

beginning
#3 Sega Genesis Secrets
0.0· tough start
finale
Riven
3.0· sticks the landing
overall
0.2· getting stronger with each book

Books in this Series

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Sega Genesis Secrets

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This is a walkthrough, hints, tips, and strategy guide book for the "Sega Genesis" video game system, it features 18 in depth walkthroughs, and tips for 4 other games. At the begining of the book, the author introduces the video game system, and in the last chapter, he describes various ways parents can handle video games, and interact with their children. There are grey scale screenshots and the occational composite maps. The book was originally sold at $9.95.

Battletoads

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This is a walkthrough, hints, tips, and strategy guide book for three of the 54 "Battletoads" video games. It covers the games "Battletoads" for the Nintendo Entertainment System {NES} and Genesis, "Battletoads in Battlemaniacs" for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES), "Battletoads/Double Dragon" for NES, SNES, and Genesis. The book features grey scale screenshoots, and composite screenshot, maps of various locations in the game. The book does not cover the arcade game, or the Game Boy game. The price of the book was originally $12.95 in the U.S., £11.95 in the U.K. and 17.95 in Canada.

Nintendo Game Boy Secrets

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This is a walkthrough, hints, tips, and strategy, book for games on the "Nintendo Game Boy" {NGB, or GB} video game hand held system. For each of the 26 featured games there is a walkthrough of each level of the game. There are also tips, cheats, and in game secrets that allow players to beat the game by getting multiple lives, or gaining extra power-ups be doing various activities in the games. There are grey scale television screenshots, photographs of various Game Boy assessories, and illustrations showing various other activities that are not related to video games. The last sectionof the book is a parenting guide for parents, to deal with their children if their children playing video games too often. The book was originally sold at $9.95.

Hexen

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This is a walkthrough to the video game "Hexen", there are color screenshots and floor plan style maps of the levels. There are color clip and paste pixel models, of the characters, enemies, items, weapons, and text descriptions of the games levels. The book offers tips on fighting the games enemies, stats on the various playable characters. The book was originally released as "Hexen: The Official Strategy Guide" and cost $19.95 in the US, $27.95 in Canada, and £15.99 in the UK, it originally covered the Personal Computer {PC} version of the game ISBN: 0761503889. It would later be updated to include Nintendo 64, PlayStation, and Sega Saturn, versions of the game ISBN: 0761512039, titled "Official Secrets & Solutions".

Super NES Games Secrets, Volume 3

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This is a "Unofficial Guide" of walkthroughs, hints, tips, and strategy guide book for the video game on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System {SNES}, it features 23 games in detail, as well as "Short Tips" for other games. There are diagram style maps, and grey scale screenshot. The book was originally sold at $9.99 in the U.S.A., and £9.95 in the U.K.

Sega Genesis Secrets, Volume 2

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This is a walkthrough, hints, tips, and strategy guide book for the "Sega Genesis" video game system, it features 16 in depth walkthroughs, 10 "Sports Games" reviews, and several "Short Tips" on various other games. There are grey scale screenshots and the occational composite maps. The book was originally sold at $9.95 in the U.S.A. and $13.95 in Canada.

Earthworm Jim 2

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This is a hits, tips, and strategy guide for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System {SNES}, Sega Genesis/Sega MegaDrive {SG, SMD} video game. It features color screenshots, and composite maps, of each area, however the maps are ussulay covered by a chapter title for that area. It has text near each screenshot describing how to pass the various points in the game. There are also the occational official illustrations. The book originally cost $14.95 in the USA, $19.95 in Canada, and, and £11.99 in the UK.

Sega Genesis Secrets, Volume 6

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This is a walkthrough, hints, tips, and strategy guide book for the "Sega Genesis" video game system, it features 17 in depth walkthroughs, and "Short Tips" on 12 other games. There are grey scale screenshots and the occational composite maps. The book was originally sold at $12.95 in the U.S.A. and $17.95 in Canada.

Super Star wars official game secrets

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Presents secrets, tricks, and strategies for playing the "Super Star Wars" computer game which challenges the player to carry the Rebel Alliance to victory over the evil Empire of Darth Vader.

Nintendo Game Secrets

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This is a tips, hints, walkthroughs, and strategy guide to 20 Nintendo Entertainment System {NES} games. There are grey scale screenshots, and shorter tips for various games. There are previews of newer games, and NES accessories. It is the first in a series of Guides to Nintendo Games games.

Turbografx-16 and TurboExpress Secrets

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This is the first of two books covering the "TurboGrafx-16", and "TurboExpress" video game systems, it has walkthroughs, hints, tips, and strategies for 15 games. There are grey scale screenshots and the occational composite maps. This first book is a official guide made in collaberation with NEC Technologies, the manufacturers of the systems, the second book, "Turbografx-16 and TurboExpress Secrets, Volume 2", ISBN: 1559581263. The book was originally sold for $9.95 in the U.S.A.

The Official Lucasfilm Games Air Combat Strategies Book

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This is a hints, tips, stragieies, and history book, covering the three Lucasfilm Games, "Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe", "Their Finest Hour: The Battle of Britain", and "Battlehawks 1942". It details the various battles that are represented by the games, there are a few grey scale screenshots of the games, but there are more photographs of the various events of the Wars, and people that lived at the time, and fought those battles. There are also maps of the various locations. The book was originally priced at $18.95 for the USA, and $25.95 in Canada.

Return to Zork

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This is a walkthrough, strategy, and solutions guide to the puzzle video game "Return to Zork", for the Personal Computer (PC) IBM format. It has many gray-scale screenshots, diagram, and grid-based maps. The first part of the book gives general information about playing the game, while the second part has an area by area description of the game and mentions the games puzzles and when and where they are encountered. The last part of the book have step by step solutions to all the puzzles to help the player get a score of all 225 points. There is also information on the differences between the 3.5 inch diskettes, and the CD-ROM versions of the game.

TurboGrafx-16 and TurboExpress Secrets, Volume 2

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This is the second of two books covering the "TurboGrafx-16", and "TurboExpress" video game systems, it has walkthroughs, hints, tips, and strategies for 12 games. There are grey scale screenshots and the occational composite maps. This first book, "Turbografx-16 and TurboExpress Secrets", ISBN: 155958064X is a official guide made in collaberation with NEC Technologies, the manufacturers of the systems. The second book, is unauthorized. This book was originally sold for $9.95 in the U.S.A., and $13.95 in Canada.

Riven

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This is a walkthrough, hints, tips, and solutions book for the video game "Riven". There are puzzle by puzzle solutions to each of the games mysteries. It is written in a journal type way from the point of view of the character. The story is that of a person uses a book to be transported to a world known as 'Riven', however the player ends up in prison and must escape and find out what is happening and how to stop it. There are many gray-scale screenshots, maps of the various islands, and greenish-blue illustrations of animals on many of the books pages. Besides the guided walkthrough there is also a section on 'The Solutions' to the puzzles located throughout the game. After this there is a quick step by step section that tells what the player needs to do to accomplish all the events in the game.