acidjaguar

It was the hint book wasn't it? That's what I remember ...

Just a little bit late to the party bud

I am keeping the jaguar he painted me

High Bids: #1 - Zelda: $30 a3quit4s #2 - GBC: $30 a3quit4s ------------------ Hello all! I have been cleaning out my collection and trying to pair down to a more suitable amount and came across these two beauties. These were received as part of my secret santa gifts many moons ago from a member here. Apologies as your name is escaping me, so please chime in! I know you were Colorado based ... Jim maybe? .... I'd like to auction them off here to get them into a new home and donate all the proceeds to the site to help with a little spare funds and/or tip for @Gloves, maybe? I will cover shipping anywhere in the world. Auction Rules: Bidding starts at $1 Increments of whole dollar amounts only Shipping is FREE Auction ends this Friday, August 11th at 10 PM Eastern Feel free to reach out with any questions! Please note which auction and what bid you'd like your number to be on. Auction #1 - Zelda Hand Painted on Wood Board Auction #2 - Gameboy Color Canvas Painting

Very cool! I do enjoy finding them still out there, but always be looking at the patina of the paper to make sure they aren't photocopy fresh replicas... I've seen a few floating around over time. Great find @MrWunderful!

I've only created threads with overall lists of guides, nintendo powers, and newsletters. The Mail in hint sheets are a little of the NES based books, but there could also be another category of direct letters from the game publishers as I've seen and have a few from when the client wrote in directly for help and they sometimes answered with a hint sheet in return.

It is with extreme excitement that I can post that I have finally landed a Sunsoft Game Time news premiere issue. This is the second publicly owned copy to ever surface with the other being locked away in @theredeye Video Game History Foundation’s archives. I am beyond excited! Big thanks to @daillest for not bidding the crap out of me.

Lot 1 - $150 Lot 2 - $150 Lot 3 - $40

Lot 1 - $70 Lot 3 - $55 Lot 4 - $50 Lot 5 - $30

I was able to find my Gex 3 and you are correct. It is only listed as Playstation ... bummer. I will edit the list and check these other guides too! Glad to see people at least referencing them and questioning my sanity Much needed. I've looked in to a few of the others and I do believe your points are valid. I will be sure to update the list to reflect that. Thank you for pointing them out!

The Gex 3 from Millenium is a harder one to come by but it is real. I need to dig mine out to get you a picture. Millenium did a very short run of guides overall, six in total. I can't confirm the 7th that is advertised as I've never seen it IRL. https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.walmart.com%2Fip%2FGex-3-Deep-Cover-Gecko-Official-Guide%2F877361&psig=AOvVaw1KiPJpYGL3UnLlaIh5GAv7&ust=1668119109815000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CA8QjRxqFwoTCMiwqoqSovsCFQAAAAAdAAAAABAK

You can check out the lists I've built through here. I've been trying to keep the most up to date information possible on everything early and guide related:

Done!

I've been able to confirm again. It only relates to Super Mario Bros the original OG of the bunch. No other SMBs are strategized throughout the book.

Yeah that page covers a lot of the different guides nintendo officially published throughout the different consoles. The Official Nintendo Players Guide is the black cover book under multigame in the list. Other ones are included in the other lists I have going on the site here per the respective platform.

Probably 100s of titles covered but this is the all inclusive list of older guides not including newly released versions of some older game guides.

I’ll have to verify again as I would’ve put it there for multiple games but maybe I confused a few similar titles when I recreated the list … who knows at this point!

Updated to add: Captain Planet Hint Book! Such a great find by @jonebone!

Dang dang dang. I want that Link's Awakening CHN CIB soo bad like! Amazing piece there.

Sure why not. Put that handsome man Brock with me and I'll give it a go again this year!

It looks like they move inventory partially to California and are shipping as they work through the pallets is my assumption. Some stuff remained in Denver as I've got three packages from CA and two from CO. So they are just working through the remaining orders and I'm sure your stuff will go out sometime soon. Seems like a lot of people are starting to receive stuff pretty regularly.

All NES / SNES here. No DVD

All my old speedruns from July through November have all shipped out so I'm up to fresh subs at this point.

Nice finds! What issues are those Gamepro cards found in? Gamepro really did love some supplemental guides. That’s for sure!

The old Nintendo employee copies are definitely not coming up as frequently as they may have used to. I'd say as a rarity factor, this one is definitely way up there. For a value standpoint, I'd estimate roughly 1.5 - 3x the value of the typical pieces. Something like this is sought after by people such as myself (really just the book for me) but there are a few collectors who have a solid collection of former Nintendo employee copies that would probably go after this if at auction. I think that the following for this game in particular could essentially raise your price pretty well given it is a unique version of a popular title. I believe the story goes that NoA had employee store where they could rent out games and play them. This would be an example of such a game and book. There is another version that were sent out as promotional copies and denoted by the clear sticker and text reading "NINTENDO PROMOTIONAL OFFER" Not For Resale (yellow text). The game counselors had a bin of current magazine issues they would take (including NP guides) but typically those are marked by a Desk #xxx or just a number as shown here: