Super Mario Brothers Deluxe: Prima's Official Strategy Guide

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OK--I figure that there are two reasons one would want to shell out the money for this guide: 1) you're a collector, like me, or 2) you want to a convinient guide with maps showing you the locations of all the new "deluxe" secrets and items in the game. For the latter, it does a decent job, but so much more could have been included, in a much less amount of space. There is a very large introductory section that is nothing more than a rehash of the instruction booklet (going over gameplay, items, enemies, power-ups, etc.) with some color artwork in the background. Nothing noteworthy, except for the mere fact that the screenshots are more blurry than if you were to shake your Gameboy Color up and down as fast as you could! There's no excuse for this--you NEVER see blurry screenshots of Gameboy games in magazines. The [much better looking] maps that make up the rest of the guide cover each stage in very good detail, and are decorated with captions that point out...Read more

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