Super Mario Bros. 3: Super Mario Advance 4 (Prima's Official Strategy Guide) [Paperback]

David Hodgson (Author)

Book Description

Series: Prima's Official Strategy Guide | Publication Date: October 21, 2003

Get Ready for a Smashing Good Time!
·Expert strategy on all moves and power-ups
·Effective tips on managing Mario and overview strategies
·All item locations revealed and guidelines for using them
·Exhaustive walkthrough for all eight Worlds
·Dispatch every monster with complete takedown tactics
·e-Reader Revelations for Series 1 and 2 Cards, including cunning devices to make the most out of your Card collection
·Over 100 levels revealed (including over ten all-new stages)
·All Warp Whistles, White Mushroom Houses, Coin Ships, Spade Houses, and Mini-Games revealed
·All Ace and e-Coins Collected

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Get Ready for a Smashing Good Time!
·Expert strategy on all moves and power-ups
·Effective tips on managing Mario and overview strategies
·All item locations revealed and guidelines for using them
·Exhaustive walkthrough for all eight Worlds
·Dispatch every monster with complete takedown tactics
·e-Reader Revelations for Series 1 and 2 Cards, including cunning devices to make the most out of your Card collection
·Over 100 levels revealed (including over ten all-new stages)
·All Warp Whistles, White Mushroom Houses, Coin Ships, Spade Houses, and Mini-Games revealed
·All Ace and e-Coins Collected

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Prima Games (October 21, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0761544259
• ISBN-13: 978-0761544258
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,087,660 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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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Could be better, November 26, 2003

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This review is from: Super Mario Bros. 3: Super Mario Advance 4 (Prima's Official Strategy Guide) (Paperback)

While there is no real reason ot buy a guide to Super Mario Brothers 3, it certainly could help some gamers and while this wouldn't be my first choice, it is still a great guide!

First, I was impressed with all the tricks and tips this guide gave me. It is a pretty easy game to understand so these basic tips aren't really needed, especially for Mario veterans such as myself.

The walkthrough is nice but this is actually where the guide falls short. If you want a good walkthrough I actually suggest the far superior Nintendo Power guide. This guide doesn't have any maps of the 80+ levels and so it won't help you find everything in a level. Some info is missing from the walkthrough but it'll still get you through the game.

Aside from that there is the Classic Mario Bros. strategy which you actually shouldn't need, since I'm sure that many of us have been playing that since the first Mario Advance game.

Overall the guide is pretty good if you need a leg up or some help, but if you're looking to master the game, the Nintendo Power guide would actually be a lot better to get.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Third-Party Guidedown, April 11, 2004

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Michael Kerner "Michael Kerner" (Brooklyn, New York U.S.A.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Super Mario Bros. 3: Super Mario Advance 4 (Prima's Official Strategy Guide) (Paperback)

Sometimes, when I look at these strategy guides, they often don't have enough of the feeling into each of the levels, that there not shown in full focus within a map. That comes with Prima, and their strategy guide for Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Brothers 3, for the Game Boy Advance. The unfortunate disadvantage with this game guide, is that the maps really aren't detailed enough to showcase pitfalls, puzzles and problems to pass the time by. Another disadvantage is that if you have an earlier guide that Nintendo made, whether it was the very first Super Mario 3 guide from the 80's for the original NES game system, or the guide that reflects with the Super NES collection, Super Mario All-Stars than this really isn't a suggested purchase for the Mushroom Kingdom. I really suggest you get the one Nintendo made for Super Mario 3 for the Game Boy Advance, instead of this one. The maps are much more detailed there.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Useful for new gamers, November 17, 2003

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scripted fatality "AC" (India) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Super Mario Bros. 3: Super Mario Advance 4 (Prima's Official Strategy Guide) (Paperback)

The book is good.Though the game is pretty easy to understand.The book does not go to the limit as expected.It's good for first time players.You can learn many useful tricks and tricks from it.The guide does not explain every part in great deal.For experienced gamer-Ignore it.