Game Player's Nintendo Strategy Guide Vol.1 No.3

 

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Vol. 1 of Game Player's alternated issues between those focusing on Nintendo games and those focused on PC games.  With Vol. 2, the Nintendo and PC guides would continue on as separate publications, but each would consider all 4 issues of Vol. 1 as part of their run.

So for both magazines, Volume 1 consists of:

Game Player's Nintendo Buyer's Guide Vol. 1 No. 1   (this issue was also sold under the title The Game Player's Guide to Nintendo)

The Game Player's Guide to MS-DOS Computer Games Vol. 1 No. 2

Game Player's Nintendo Strategy Guide Vol.1 No.3 (this issue was also sold under the title Game Player's Strategy Guide to Nintendo Games)

Game Player's MS-DOS Strategy Guide Vol. 1 No. 4

 

 

 

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Scan updated with new version on October 18, 2019

Features:

• Playing to Win (Editorial welcoming readers to the third issue)
• Map Your Way to Victory (Making your own game maps, or using those provided by the software, to ensure victory)
• Thumbs Up! Buying the Right Joysticks (Picking the proper peripheral for perfect play)
• Directory (Contact info for the companies whose games are listed inside)

Strategies:

• Blaster Master
• Breakthru
• Contra
• Double Dragon
• Gauntlet
• Ghosts 'N' Goblins
• Iron Tank
• Karnov
• RoboWarrior
• Super Mario Bros. 2
• Bases Loaded
• City Connection
• Commando
• Friday the 13th
• Galaga
• Ghostbusters
• Ikari Warriors II: Victory Road
• Lee Trevino's Fighting Golf
• Legend of Kage
• Life Force
• Metal Gear
• Metroid
• Platoon
• Renegade
• Seicross
• Star Voyager
• Tetris (Tengen)
• 3-D World Runner
• T&C Surf Designs: Wood and Water Rage
• Xevious: The Avenger

Notable Stuff:

• The editors' strategy to defeat the armored tanks on the Snow Field level of Contra is to let them kill you and just run by while invincible. Er...why not just stand on the left side of the screen and, you know, shoot them?
• Lots of spelling/grammar errors in the Gauntlet entry ('know' instead of 'now', 'them' instead of 'then', etc...).
• No mention of the fact you have to beat Ghosts 'N' Goblins twice, guys? For shame...
• The editors also seem to have trouble differentiating between 'loose' and 'lose'.
• The screenshot for Legend of Kage where it claims Kage has been killed by alerted guards is actually a shot of him reading the Scroll item, which results in a torrential rain of dead enemies.

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