The Nintendo Player’s Guides are a series of video game strategy guides from Nintendo based on Nintendo Power magazine. Original format The first Player's Guide was simply named The Official Nintendo Player's Guide, featuring dozens of different NES games. The following 22 games were covered in depth, with enemy descriptions, level maps, and strategy tips. The Legend of Zelda Mike Tyson's Punch Out!! Commando Super Mario Bros. Top Gun Ghosts and Goblins Double Dribble Zelda II: The Adventure of Link Metroid Rad Racer Ring King Kid Icarus Pro Wrestling Castlevania Excitebike Arkanoid Rush'n Attack Rygar Ikari Warriors Spy Hunter The Goonies 2 Kung Fu Screenshots and short descriptions of other games were also included. The Official Nintendo Player's Guide was followed in the early 1990s by a number of publications, which were produced under the slightly different moniker of Nintendo Power Strategy Guides. These were sent between the then bi-monthly magazine issues to subscribers or mailed alongside them. Nintendo Entertainment System games covered by their Strategy Guides included: Super Mario Bros. 3 Ninja Gaiden II: The Dark Sword of Chaos Final Fantasy 4-Player Extra, which covered multiple four-player games on the NES Nintendo ceased production of these bimonthly Strategy Guides due to a lack of important game releases in the pre-holiday seasons of the year. Player's Guide After converting Nintendo Power to a monthly format came the more well-known mainstay of Player's Guides. Early guides covered groups of games in one book. These books covered strategy for: NES Game Atlas Castlevania Castlevania II: Simon's Quest Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers DuckTales The Legend of Zelda Mega Man Mega Man 2 Mega Man 3 Ninja Gaiden Ninja Gaiden II StarTropics Super Mario Bros. Super Mario Bros. 2 Super Mario Bros. 3 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game Zelda II: The Adventure of Link Game Boy Batman Castlevania: The Adventure Cosmo Tank Days of Thunder Double Dragon Dr. Mario DuckTales F-1 Race Final Fantasy Legend Fortified Zone Gargoyle's Quest Golf Gremlins 2: The New Batch The Hunt for Red October Kwirk Nemesis Operation C Quarth R-Type Revenge of the 'Gator Super Mario Land Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of the Foot Clan SolarStriker Solomon's Club Super R.C. Pro-Am Sword of Hope Tetris Ultima: Runes of Virtue Mario Mania Super Mario World, along with a history of the character, Mario. Super Nintendo Entertainment