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Super Smash Bros. Melee

Nintendo Player's Guide

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Front cover of the Melee Player's Guide

The Nintendo Player's Guide was a line of strategy guides written and distributed by the department of Nintendo that also ran Nintendo Power. Originally starting in 1988 along with the magazine, the Player's Guides are dedicated pieces of literature that goes further in-depth of aspects of the game than the magazine typically went into. While the most current guide was typically sent to new subscribers for free along with their first issue, a Player's Guide being sent to every subscriber was a rare exception. the guides were most often sold seperately, with the ability to mail-order and find one at book and video game stores. While each guide initially covered several games in brief, this eventually evolved into each guide providing extensive coverage on a single game or topic. The guides were discontinued in 2007 after 110 guides. The main reasons for the discontinuation were the rise of independant guides like Prima Games and the the World Wide Web made the guides redundant.

Relevance to the Super Smash Bros. series

An official guide for Super Smash Bros. Melee was published alongside the release of the game. The guide is 124 full color pages in length. The guide is divided into five broad sections:

Battle Basics

Goes through how to play the game.

1-P Mode

Goes through single player content.

Vs. Mode

Goes through mulitplayer content.

Trophies

A list of trophies and how to get them.

Smash Cache

Miscellaneous topics that do not fit into any other category.

References

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