Nintendo Adventure Books
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Nintendo Adventure Books
The Nintendo Adventure Book series was published from 1991 to 1992 by Archway books, and Mammoth books in the United KingdomUnited Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
. There are twelve in all. They are formatted like the popular Choose Your Own Adventure
Choose Your Own Adventure
Choose Your Own Adventure is a series of children's gamebooks where each story is written from a second-person point of view, with the reader assuming the role of the protagonist and making choices that determine the main character's actions and the plot's outcome. The series was based on a...
books, where the reader makes decisions that change the outcome of the story. Ten of the books are about the Mario Bros.
Mario Bros.
is an arcade game published and developed by Nintendo in 1983. It was developed by Shigeru Miyamoto. It has been commonly featured as a minigame in the Super Mario Advance series and other games...
' adventures in the Mushroom Kingdom and are based primarily on the Valiant comics
Valiant Comics
Valiant Comics is a comic book imprint published by various publishers since its inception with Voyager Communications, Inc. in 1989, later Acclaim Comics, Inc. Its assets were purchased from the bankruptcy of the Acclaim Entertaintment by Valiant Entertainment, Inc. in 2007.-Voyager...
published for the Nintendo Comics System
Nintendo Comics System
The Nintendo Comics System was a series of comic books published by Valiant Comics in 1990 and 1991. It was part of a licensing deal with Nintendo, featuring characters from their video games and the cartoons based on them.- The comics :...
imprint. Books nine and ten are about Link from The Legend of Zelda series.
Each book is exactly 121 pages long. There is an inventory system where the player collects items to solve puzzles (shown in a collage of pictures on the last page of the book), and scoring system where the player can judge how well they did on a scale at the end of the book. In books 1-5, 7 and 8, this is judged by multiplying the number of coins the player collected in the course of the adventure by ten, but in books 6, 9-12, the player is simply awarded a certain number of points for overcoming challenges (the coin scoring system was joined with the point system in book eleven). There are several endings in each book. There is one victorious ending, and unsuccessful (often lethal to the characters involved) endings say Game Over
Game over
Game Over is a message in video games which signals that the game has ended, often due to a negative outcome - although the phrase sometimes follows the end credits after successful completion of a game...
.
Authors
Each of the authors brought a distinct style to the series. Notably, Bill McCayBill McCay
Bill McCay is an American author and has written over seventy books in total. He has written five books for the Stargate franchise. His first Stargate book was released in 1995, two years before the premiere of Stargate SG-1. Because of this, it does not fit with SG-1 or the other Stargate spin...
's characters seemed to break the fourth wall
Fourth wall
The fourth wall is the imaginary "wall" at the front of the stage in a traditional three-walled box set in a proscenium theatre, through which the audience sees the action in the world of the play...
, aware that they were in a video game.
List of books
- Double Trouble by Clyde BoscoClyde BoscoClyde Bosco is a pseudonym of the author Russell Ginns. He has also been published as P. C. Russell Ginns, Jacques Barniarde, Kravis Winewater, and Hans Shingle....
- Leaping Lizards by Clyde BoscoClyde BoscoClyde Bosco is a pseudonym of the author Russell Ginns. He has also been published as P. C. Russell Ginns, Jacques Barniarde, Kravis Winewater, and Hans Shingle....
- Monster Mix-Up by Bill McCayBill McCayBill McCay is an American author and has written over seventy books in total. He has written five books for the Stargate franchise. His first Stargate book was released in 1995, two years before the premiere of Stargate SG-1. Because of this, it does not fit with SG-1 or the other Stargate spin...
- Koopa Capers by Bill McCayBill McCayBill McCay is an American author and has written over seventy books in total. He has written five books for the Stargate franchise. His first Stargate book was released in 1995, two years before the premiere of Stargate SG-1. Because of this, it does not fit with SG-1 or the other Stargate spin...
- Pipe Down! by Clyde BoscoClyde BoscoClyde Bosco is a pseudonym of the author Russell Ginns. He has also been published as P. C. Russell Ginns, Jacques Barniarde, Kravis Winewater, and Hans Shingle....
- Doors to Doom by Bill McCayBill McCayBill McCay is an American author and has written over seventy books in total. He has written five books for the Stargate franchise. His first Stargate book was released in 1995, two years before the premiere of Stargate SG-1. Because of this, it does not fit with SG-1 or the other Stargate spin...
- Dinosaur Dilemma by Clyde BoscoClyde BoscoClyde Bosco is a pseudonym of the author Russell Ginns. He has also been published as P. C. Russell Ginns, Jacques Barniarde, Kravis Winewater, and Hans Shingle....
- Flown the Koopa by Matt WayneMatt WayneMatt S. Wayne is an American writer of comic books and television. Wayne is probably best known for his work on the animated series Justice League Unlimited and The Super Hero Squad Show, and writing and editing comic books for Milestone Media....
- The Crystal Trap by Matt WayneMatt WayneMatt S. Wayne is an American writer of comic books and television. Wayne is probably best known for his work on the animated series Justice League Unlimited and The Super Hero Squad Show, and writing and editing comic books for Milestone Media....
- The Shadow Prince by Matt WayneMatt WayneMatt S. Wayne is an American writer of comic books and television. Wayne is probably best known for his work on the animated series Justice League Unlimited and The Super Hero Squad Show, and writing and editing comic books for Milestone Media....
- Unjust Desserts by Matt WayneMatt WayneMatt S. Wayne is an American writer of comic books and television. Wayne is probably best known for his work on the animated series Justice League Unlimited and The Super Hero Squad Show, and writing and editing comic books for Milestone Media....
- Brain Drain by Matt WayneMatt WayneMatt S. Wayne is an American writer of comic books and television. Wayne is probably best known for his work on the animated series Justice League Unlimited and The Super Hero Squad Show, and writing and editing comic books for Milestone Media....
You Decide on the Adventure
The You Decide on the Adventure series, also referred to as the Choose Your Own Adventure books, are a series of four gamebooks published by Scholastic from 2001 to 2002. All four were written by Craig Wessel and were based on the Game Boy Advance and Game Boy Color games at the time.List of books
- Super Mario Advance, ISBN 0-439-36708-5
- The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons, ISBN 0-439-36709-3
- The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages, ISBN 0-439-36710-7
- Wario Land 4Wario Land 4Wario Land 4, known as in Japan, is a video game released for the Game Boy Advance system in 2001. In this game, Wario has to gather four treasures to unlock a pyramid and save Princess Shokora from The Golden Diva...
, ISBN 0-439-36711-5