In the compex world of video games, strategy guides aren’t considered a luxury any more. If you want to be successful at any action game a video strategy guide is a must have item. Ideally, most game player want to beat a video game by their own efforts alone. With today’s super challenging games, you can get some kudos for facing such a daunting task. Your friends will be amazed if you don’t have to consult a single video game strategy guide while playing your favourite game.

Believe it or not I’ve been using game cheats and strategy guides since I had the original 8-bit Nintendo. The game cheats we used back in the day were pretty undeveloped. There were only eight buttons that you could push, so every video game cheat was a combination of up, down, left, right, b, a, select, and start. They were pretty easy to remember, and we were always trading them with our friends. Sometimes we would even find one accidentally.

Some of the video game makers even published video game strategy guides as well as manufacturers like Nintendo. They were really practical for games like The Legend of Zelda and Pokemon Platinum Gymleaders. These games would have a long series of riddles that you had to solve and adventures that you had to complete. When you got lost it was great having the video game strategy guide. These guides didn’t emphasise cheats so much as explain how to solve the riddles.

There are many computer games that need video game strategy guides too. I remember that I used to enjoy playing the King’s Quest games. To get your way through it took a video game strategy guide because they were so difficult to figure out. A strategy guide for an adventure game like that could be a 50, 60, or even 70 page long. They were more like books than “guides.” The games were already so hard to understand that it was like reading a novel to find your way through the webwork.

This trend hasn’t changed as video game developers continued towards more and more complex video games with increasingly complex strategy guides. I remember when I purchased the Empire Earth strategy guide a few of years ago. It was at least one hundred fifty pages long! I’ve heard that this is not exceptional for video game strategy guides nowadays either. Some of them are even larger. Still, I guess that’s what you need to get through a tricky video game.