Super Mario 64: Survival Guide [Paperback]

J. Douglas Arnold (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1995

SUPER MARIO 64 SURVIVAL GUIDE by J. Douglas Arnold and Mark Elies A complete guide for "The Best Game Ever Made" from start to finish, including all 120 stars. Written by best-selling authors of over 30 guides. Maps for difficult areas of the game. Having problems with those tricky jumps? Keep getting killed by those cute-but-deadly bosses? Want to know where to find every star? You'll find it all in the pages of the SUPER MARIO 64 SURVIVAL GUIDE, your ticket to learning SUPER MARIO 64 in and out: * Detailed and easy-to-read chapters with strategies for beginners and advanced players alike. * Complete walkthroughs for all 15 courses of SUPER MARIO

64, plus every hidden room in the castle. * Over 1,000 massive screen shots and captions that illustrate the most effective survival tactics and techniques. * A brief history of the Mario game series, from the 1982

coin-op hit DONKEY KONG to the 1986 NES smash SUPER MARIO BROTHERS to the 1992 SNES blockbuster SUPER MARIO WORLD.

Product Details

• Paperback: 157 pages
• Publisher: Sandwich Islands Pub (March 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1884364195
• ISBN-13: 978-1884364198
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 7 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,009,130 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not so much help., July 29, 2000

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turtley "film fanatic • bibliophile" (Planet Claire) - See all my reviews
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I swear I cannot get thru a game without some sort of guide. This one did not help me so much. First of all, it is in black and white, which I was not expecting. So that makes it hard to tell what part of the game they are talking about. It really is not much a walk thru either. I guess I have been spoiled by Primas' full cover step by step guides for playstation. This guide is ok if you are already a video game pro and just want to see what you may have missed. But for those of us that can't get past the first few levels without a guide - I do not recommend this one. It also is over priced for what you get.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Could have been a lot better, February 12, 2001

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Mike London "MAC" (Oxford, UK) - See all my reviews
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Its safer to go with more accepted companies when choosing a guide. Avoid this and buy a Nintendo or Prima version. This guide, although fair, could use a lot more. Its simply not worth paying the money to buy this subpar material when you could be getting some actually well-written and thoughtfully putout guides. It seems Douglas Arnold and Mark Elies, if they have written over 30 guides, could have done a better job on this.

Boo

Mike London

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not That Good, October 11, 2004

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Robert C. Smith "smithro2" (East Bridgewater, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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I always buy a guide for the games I purchase because I don't want to spend 8 hours running in circles trying to solve a puzzle...a guide is great when you are at a deadend. I pulled out my old Nintendo 64 and Super mario 64 for my son to play, this guide was packed away with it. I was amazed at the lack of details in the guide. The guide will allow you to complete the game, but there's not much there about the extras - where do I find the flying cap etc... Sometimes the instructions are a little vague, without the details you can still spend a lot of time trying things over and over and over...

The guide will get you through the game, but if you want details look somewhere else.