Animal Crossing (Prima's Official Strategy Guide) [Paperback]

David Hodgson (Author), Stephen Stratton (Author), Tri Pham (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Prima Games (September 24, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0761541179
• ISBN-13: 978-0761541172
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #861,534 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Originally hailing from the English city of Manchester, David began his video game career in 1995, writing for numerous classic British gaming magazines from a rusting, condemned, dry-docked German fishing trawler floating on the River Thames. Fleeing the United Kingdom, he joined the crew at the part-fraternity, part-sanitarium known as GameFan magazine. David helped launch GameFan Books and form Gamers' Republic, and was partly responsible for the wildly unsuccessful incite Video Gaming and Gamers.com. He wrote his first guide in 1996, but began authoring guides for Prima in 2000. He has written over 70 guides including: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess; Assassin's Creed; Half-Life: Orange Box; Mario Kart Wii; Halo 3: ODST; and Fallout 3. He lives in the woods of the Pacific Northwest, with his wife and an eight-foot statue of Great Cthulhu.

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68 of 72 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Lots of Errors in this book!, September 23, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Animal Crossing (Prima's Official Strategy Guide) (Paperback)

This is one of the worst books Prima has put out yet. It has good strategy sections, but when it comes to facts, this book is full of errors. The fish and insect charts are simply wrong in many cases, saying certain species aren't available in some months when they really are and vice versa. Prices of housing additions are wrong. Information about store hours is wrong. Finding info on a specific item is extremely difficult, since nothing is in alphabetical, no pictures are supplied, and the name of the items is in small print. The calendar of events is wrong, with erroneous dates and missing events etc. What's even worse, the Prima website does not have an errata posted that corrects all these problems. Go for the Nintendo Power guide. You'll be a lot happier. You can get it at Nintendo's website free with a subscription to Nintendo Power magazine.

27 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Nintedo Guide is 10x better, March 4, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Animal Crossing (Prima's Official Strategy Guide) (Paperback)

This guide is a waste of money compared to the Nintendo official guide. The Nintendo guide has pictures of everything: furniture, carpets, wallpaper, clothing, fossils, tools, fish, insects, stationary and more. It also is much better organized and has pictures of everything. The Prima guide is hard to read due to it's four colum per page format and the item guide is horrible. The only thing that saves this book are the charts of when to catch bugs and fish, although there are some wrong information and it does not tell where they can be found. Get the Nintendo book if you can, at Kamrt when you buy the game, you get the guide. The Nintendo guide is worth having.

23 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This guide is wrong in SOOOO many ways., March 16, 2004

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bess "leechco" (San Jose, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Animal Crossing (Prima's Official Strategy Guide) (Paperback)

This guide is so full of errors. Errors that really can affect the quality of your gameplay. Their furniture list is wrong, the museum info, what you can and cannot buy back from the nookmeister, when and where to find fish and bugs, some of the song names for totokeke. event happenings, parts or all of these things are wrong.

This guide is a complete waste of money.

Not to mention the lists are neither alphbetical nor in the same order they appear in your catalog, and there are no pictures of the items, so finding things for reference is next to impossible