Title: Compute's Nintendo Secrets
First published: 1990
Description: This is a reviews, tips, and strategies book for 31 games for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), and 8 games for the Nintendo Game Boy (GB). Each review, except that for the GB version of 'Batman', has a gray-scale screenshot, a 'Review' of the game, its 'Instructions' booklet, a 'Features' section describing the type of game it is, its Difficulty settings, Number of players, whether it has a pause feature, if it has a continue, password or allows the player to 'Restart at Last Level', and the name of the game 'Manufacturer'. There is also ratings on the games 'Graphics and Sounds', 'Challenge', and 'Play Value'. Besides the reviews the the largest section for nearly each game is its 'Tips, Tricks, and Strategies'. After each section is a 'Super Secrets section, with additional tips, written in mirror face type, and a composite 'Play Value' chart comparing the games in that section. A third section has Violence rating information for the NES games and a game index, which covers this book and the previous book, "Compute's Guide to Nintendo Games", ISBN: 0874552214. The last 8 pages of the book have color screenshots and tips for 16 games. Some of this book, and the previous one would later be recompiled for in a 'Best of' compilation along with new material in Steven's 'The Big Book of Nintendo Games', ISBN: 0874552486.

Compute! Nintendo books in this series;

* Compute's Nintendo Tips & Tricks. 087455246X
* Compute!'s Guide to Nintendo Games. ISBN: 0874552214
* Compute!'s Nintendo Secrets. ISBN: 0874552346
* The Big Book of Nintendo Games. ISBN: 0874552486
* Compute!'s Nintendo Adventure Games. ISBN: 0874552435
* The Official Guide to Mega Man. ISBN: 0874552419
* Conquering Super Mario Bros., and {Conquering Super Mario Bros. Adventures} ISBN: 0874552427, and 0874552656
* Conquering Zelda, and {Conquering Zelda Adventures} ISBN: 0874552397, and 0874552702
* Castlevania: The Official Hint Book. ISBN: 0874552613
* Compute's Guide to Super NES Games. ISBN: 0874552494
Subjects: Nintendo games, Nintendo Entertainment System, Passtimes, Video games, Strategy, Puzzles, Games, Hobbies, Videogames, NES, 8 Eyes, Adventures of Bayou Billy, Adventures of Lolo 2, Astyanax, Bad Dudes, Batman, Battle of Olympus, A Boy and His Blob, Burai Fighter, Casino Kid, Code Name: Viper, Crystalis, Double Dragon II: The Revenge, Dragon Warrior, DuckTales, Fantasy Zone, Faxanadu, Fester's Quest, Fisher Price: Perfect Fit, Fisher Price: I Can Remember, Ironsword, Knight Rider, Magic of Scheherazade, Ninja Gaiden II, RoboCop, Rollerball, Rolling Thunder, Shadowgate, Strider, Super Mario Bros. 3, Terra Cresta, Vegas Dream, Willow, Bionic Commando, Bubble Bobble, Kid Kool, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Super Secrets, Heavy Barrel, Super Mario Bros. 2, Boomer's Adventure in Asmik World, Boxxle, Fall of the Foot Clan, Nemesis, NFL Football, Quarth, Revenge of the 'Gator, Shanghai, Rolling Tunder, Double Dragon II, Nintendo video games
Time periods: 1985-1990
LC classification: GV1469.3 .S39 1990