Pokemon: Prima's Official Strategy Guide [Paperback]

Elizabeth Hollinger (Author)

Book Description

Series: Prima's Official Strategy Guide | Publication Date: October 14, 1998

Do you have what it takes to become the World's Greatest Pokémon Trainer?

• Complete breakdown of Pokémon Island, including all cities, towns, streets and dungeons
• Locations, statistics, and skills of all 150 Pokémon
• Information on all Learned Skills, Technical Machines, and Hidden Machines
• Whereabouts of all items
• Tips for beating all eight Pokémon trainers
• Maps of every location

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

If you're one of the many unsuspecting victims of Pokémon, Nintendo's astonishingly addictive role-playing game for the GameBoy portable game system, you must get your hands on this strategy guide. Covering both the Red and Blue versions of the game, this book will explain the premise behind the game, how to get started, and (most importantly) how to successfully capture all 150 Pokémon. Even though the game is played on a tiny handheld device, it is still remarkably complex--which explains why the book is so text-intensive, with tons of explanations and descriptions to help aspiring Pokémon trainers in their quest. Gameplay guidelines will help familiarize you with the basics; then you can move on to the quick and dirty walkthrough (which takes up all of two pages). However, the real meat of the guide lies in the walkthrough. Here you'll find all you need to know about the world of Pokémon--where to go, things to get, and Pokémon to capture. Also, the book includes helpful maps of each game location and tips for beating each of the eight rival trainers. The back of the book features useful tables and charts, including a checklist you can use to track the Pokémon you've snared. --Mike Fehlauer --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Prima Games; abridged edition edition (October 14, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0761518126
• ISBN-13: 978-0761518129
• Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 8.3 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (201 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #360,717 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars EXTREMLY great book!, October 2, 1999

By A Customer

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

The maps were great! It helped me a bunch, especially with Rock Tunnel and Victory Road. Although I have noticed some flaws in the book such as calling the legendary birds Articuno and Moltres as Articuro And Moltos, labeling the power plant's as Victory Road (although they were seperated by a couple of pages), and on the maps the pokemart was labeled SHOP instead of MART. Still the listings for every pokemon with a picture, the type(s), where you can find each in which version, what it learns when, and what TM's and HM's it is compatable with are very,very,very helpful. If you are a pokemon master in training I suggest you get this book.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This definately helped me!, July 17, 2000

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"cooldude_net" - See all my reviews

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

After getting stuck in my Blue game I was wondering when a Playguide for Blue/Red was gonna be released. Well here it is! And it's a great guide! It's got everything you can think of, including maps, stats on your fave Pokémon and info on all the TMs & HMs. What more could you ask for? I give this 5 out of 5. It gets it straight away!

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You can't go wrong with this guide by your side!, September 19, 1999

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Karen (BETHESDA, Moldova, Republic of) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pokemon: Prima's Official Strategy Guide (Paperback)

This book is the best Pokemon guide I've read. It's better than the "Pokemon Trainer's Survival Guide."

"Pokemon: Prima's Official Strategy Guide" will make it easier and more fun to play either the blue or red version. The easy-to-read maps help you find your way through Pokemon Island.

The book has a section called "All the Skills You Ever Need to Know" that tells you the best attacks as well as which attacks your Pokemon should forget. Another section called "Items Galore" tells you which objects to toss and which ones to keep. There's also a very handy Pokemon Check-List.

This guide will help you catch 'em all.