acidjaguar

If we go off of the GVN evaluation of a complete loose set, it is showing $9,550 or so. 

I'd probably say to insure for around $10,000, give or take for your variants as well.... 

If you were to sell, I would imagine the offers will come in around $7000-8000.  And likely closer to $7,000 as a bulk sale for the whole set.    

I'd estimate an auction of this to go around $300-500 likely. 

It's been years since I've seen one go up for sale.  

@mideast - right exactly.  They essentially changed up their covers usually by color, but at times added stuff like this to the top where it is a later iteration.  They got pretty crazy on their variants, especially with coloring, UPCs, spiral vs no spiral, and "By the Editors of Consumer Guides" .... all same content though I am fairly certain.  

38 minutes ago, mideast said:

Yeah I love Game Players! I'm not sure if I had any issues as a kid but I definitely borrowed Consumer Reports (maybe red one?) from my cousin's friend and thought the cheats/tips were so cool. Did Game Players really have 16 videos? I have ads for 9 of them. And the Super Mario Bros 2 one is marked Vol. 1 No. 1 next to the Double Dragon one that also says Vol. 1 No. 1 literally in the same ad!! I see they have ads for Game Players Sports for Kids in the magazines, but I've searched for it online and came up with nothing, they really printed it? It's always the Magic Johnson cover in the ads.

I've never heard of Game Players CES Specials can you elaborate? This really is a separate thread lol

Here's the premiere of the Sports for Kids issue.  Don't think it made it past it though .... 

And then here is an example of the CES issues.  They did around 3 or 4 ... waiting for confirmation from a friend who has the known set.  They made guides to CES in fashion to their magazines .... 

And I will have to verify with another guy about how many Game Player's tapes there are.  I had thought there were 16, but he can confirm and hopefully give me a pic for reference as I seem to not have it on hand.  

1 hour ago, mideast said:

Lol very true. It's just funny, Game Player's is such an enigma. Their numbering system on the first few magazines is all out of whack and they have two Vol. 1 Number 1 issues. And they called it "Nintendo Buyer's Guide" and "Nintendo Strategy Guide". Then they also had MS-DOS Guide, PC Guide, Sega Genesis Guide, Game Boy Guide. They actually had 53876 and 71486 as prefixes on the UPC of some of their magazines too. It's like they had two different UPC companies registered?

Yeah, I'm with you there.  Game Player's certainly tried to cover all the grounds .....  

Game Player's: Leading Magazine of Video and Computer Entertainment (generic magazine for Nintendo / PC / Sega / NEC / Amiga / Atari / other systems later too)

This is the sequence I believe for Nintendo, effectively changing their title four times:

• a. Game Player's Guide to Nintendo (premier issue only)
• b. Game Player's Nintendo Strategy Guide (vol 1 no 2 and vol 1 no 3 same as Strategy guide to Nintendo Games)
• c. Game Player's Strategy Guide to Nintendo Games
• d. Game Player's Nintendo Guide 

Game Player's Nintendo Buyer's Guide -> Game Player's Buyer's Guide to Nintendo Games

Game Player's Sega Genesis Strategy Guide -> Game Player's Sega Guide!

Game Player's Encyclopedias: 

• Sega Genesis - 5 volumes
• Nintendo Games - 8 volumes
• Game Boy - 3 volumes

Game Player's VHS Tapes - maybe around 16 tapes? 

Game Player's Nintendo / Sega (or also seen:  Sega / Nintendo)

Game Player's - CES Special Issues  (3 or so issues)

Game Player's MS-DOS Strategy Guide

Game Player's PC Strategy Guide

Game Player's PC Buyer's Guide

Game Player's PC Entertainment

Game Player's Sports for Kids

Game Player's Strategy Guide to Game Boy

Ultra Game Player's (I think this is another part)

This is probably a thread in itself honestly..... 

14 minutes ago, mideast said:

Very nice!! I'm totally gonna make a database on my computer and check off the few I already have. Did you ever notice the UPC numbers on the two 1st Edition Game Players Nintendo Encyclopedia scans you have with the same cover are different? I knew there was an alternate cover but I didn't know the first cover got two printings

There are multiple examples on stuff like this that I did not cover in the list.  Many of the consumer report books have a variety of different UPCs / print iterations but I didn't want to get too far down the rabbit hole and just give the basic information of a book cover for people who wanted to search it out and maybe work on a set.  You will find that there are a lot of minor variants out there, but we made the list just covering major variants here.... so be careful and don't follow the white rabbit!  

13 hours ago, mideast said:

Any update getting a link to google drive for the hi-res covers? I’d love to have those! Also I think you have the wrong thumbnail for Prima’s Nintendo Game Secrets Vol. 1 @acidjaguar

Thanks for catching that one.  I went ahead and updated it and now added links to my googe drive folder for the NES and Multi Game books for full size scans of what I have available for everyone that is interested. 

@daillest

For me probably to finish a few publisher specific guide runs (if the last ones ever show up).  
 

Work on my CiB Black Box set.

Re-evaluate my Nintendo Power collection and see what’s left for a 100% complete set. Still debating going for the newsstand variants as well. 
 

15 minutes ago, mideast said:

Nice Raisins! I'm gonna add that middle page. The one at the bottom is actually the same as the CAP-NES-US-2 pack-in poster I have listed. This sales brochure seems to be from Winter CES 1989. Because there's another one posted here from 1988 which I think the guy originally got there because he wrote for VG&CE back then. The cover is the same as yours but without the 1989. Funny thing is Capcom was planning SFII for NES way before it came to the arcades in 1991!

Yeah that guy has a lot of great snippets on his site.  Thanks for the additional reference. 

Bump

44 minutes ago, mideast said:

I was waiting for you to chime in on the discussion! I added the Beauty and the Beast page to the list. I didn't add Beyond Gaming because I'm trying to do only with screenshots or box covers if the ad's not from the publisher. So it's not a lot of quick mentions of titles. 

I was surprised you had the other Beyond Gaming issues listed on your newsletter thread, I only see #4 everywhere on the internet I was beginning to think the others didn't exist lol. These LJN ones are great, do you know anything about the NBA flyer? I added it to the list, but I'd like more info because I can't find any other mention of it. And I'm not sure if it would be called "NBA" or "NBA Basketball". Since LJN's NFL game is kinda also called "NFL Football". And the other one is pronounced out "Major League Baseball".

I don't have anything additional for the NBA Basketball Title LJN was thinking about .... 

I did stumble upon some California Raisins stuff in my Capcom 1989 press kit though.  Some more mentions of it as well as flashing a logo for a supposed Street Fighter II (presumably for NES) .... ? 

On 12/26/2020 at 11:13 PM, Dr. Morbis said:

I don't know where these are from, but I've had these images on my computer forever: a reference to an unreleased game called "World War III" by LJN and the originally intended box art for Freedom Force...

I wish I had an earlier iteration like what you've shown, but essentially that picture shows the flyer kit they gave to clients for purchasing games from LJN.  Here's them laid out from what I own ... minus the World War III and NBA unfortunately.  

@mideast @Braveheart69 @ThePhleo

The NA.net site was created by a few ex-members who wanted to try and keep the band back together a little bit.  All of the "old guard" as I'd put it seemed to check in a little after it was re-established but it has become a vacant building mostly these days.  I don't see much more happening over there until maybe some of the powers that be have more time and dedication to it and maybe it will slowly evolve into a more active community, but mostly all I've seen is "Hey, where did the playground go?"  (into a burning heap of garbage) "Oh, shit ... that sucks."    

I am standing in as a MOD for any doomsday scenarios, but relatively speaking .... it is a room full of crickets at the moment.  

8 minutes ago, ThePhleo said:

They did eventually release it though in 1994 in Europe. I think they made one in German, and the other Billingual in French and Dutch.

Yeah they definitely put it out there for everyone else it seems, but we got canned!  

Here is also a price list from the back of Beyond Gaming Issue #02.  The ultimate game club was advertising games they were selling and buying at the time and included are more than a few unreleased games.  I had scanned this in for Frank and his records, but going through it ... it looks like the following were advertised as being able to be bought or sold through their service. 

• 10th Frame
• Bashi Bazook
• Code Blue
• Escape from Atlantis
• Great Warriors SAGA
• Water Ski

There are some Sega games in there too, but we ain't got time for that!

Here's a link to a scanned PDF copy for anyone that would like it:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nvCebaUCCeaTRoneaPWz5txdLu5KR1vj/view?usp=sharing

@mideast - here is another reference to the Beauty and the Beast that originates out of the Winter 1993 Hubee Network Newsletter.  They sure made this one seem like it would be coming out. 

Here's a little something I threw together.... please add / subtract / whatever is needed to finalize the list for all.  Publishers covered are Bradygames, Nintendo, Prima, and Versus Books.  

Welcome back (ish)! 

updated!

On 12/26/2020 at 3:51 PM, Astor Reinhardt said:

No Idea who my SS was, but they got me two games off my want list that I've been wanting for awhile as well as two Funko Pop Mystery Mini's.

I managed to luck out and get the two characters I wanted most out of the Mystery Mini boxes.

Glad the mystery pops worked out and you enjoyed the presents!  I was your SS this year and had a great time finding some goodies for you. 
 

Enjoy them ! 

1 hour ago, LutherDestroysTheGond said:

Speaking of NP guides, I have this Nintendo Power miniguide from Best Buy for Ocarina of Time.  Was this a series of mini guides that NP and Best Buy partnered for?  Or a one off?  I've had this forever and never thought to look for similar guides. 

@acidjaguar @Jmbarnes101

 

Some of the old retail stores would team up with Nintendo or other publishers and release these mini style guides.  I have this one as well and have seen similar ones for Final Fantasy 7, Ogre Battle 64, Quest 64, Turok .... but not as in depth. 

4 hours ago, Jmbarnes101 said:

Does anyone have a list of the official Nintendo Power Strategy Guides? I want to go back to collecting the GameCube era ones. 

4 hours ago, Jmbarnes101 said:

Does anyone have a list of the official Nintendo Power Strategy Guides? I want to go back to collecting the GameCube era ones. 

1 hour ago, doner24 said:

@acidjaguar I know he has them up to N64, not sure if he went into GC.

I never got around to a formal list but If you go to my WTB thread I’ve got a pretty big list of the official Nintendo guides covering most all the systems. You can see a decent list there GC.  Probably a few more like Pokemon XD,  Super Mario Sunshine, etc.  I’ll see if I can’t get a full official list going here next week. 
 

5 hours ago, LutherDestroysTheGond said:

Glad you liked the guides!  There should've been a small note sticking out of one of them.  Happy Holidays!!

Awesome!  Thank you!  I’ll have to find the note... I totally missed it 

My Secret Santa didn’t reveal themselves but helped me knock a few guides off my list!  Thank you whoever you are!