Title: Compute's Guide to Nintendo Games
First published: October 1989
Description: This is a reviews, tips, and strategies book of 40 full game reviews for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), and 5 short reviews. Each full reviews has a gray-scale screenshot, a 'Review' of the game, its 'Instructions' booklet, a 'Features' section describing the type of game it is, remarks on the game's 'Sound and Graphics', 'Challenge', and 'Play Value'. Besides the reviews the the largest section for nearly each game is its 'Tips, Tricks, and Strategies'. The short reviews look at five things in the games reviewed such as the "Classification" type of game it is, name of the "Manufacturer" of the game, "Price" of what it would generally cost, the games story and review in a section titled "Impression", and lastly a 'Tips, Tricks, and Strategies' section. The next section is a 'Super Secrets' section, with additional tips, for 24 of the full review games, written in mirror face type, and a composite 'Play Value' chart comparing the full review games, as well as to the game "Fist of the North Star" not otherwise reviewed in the book. The third section of the book has reviews of controllers and other accessories, which tells the name of the "Manufacturer", its "Price" and other things about the items. The last section is a guide for parents on violence, Violence rating information for the games and a game index, and controller index. Some of this book, and the following one "Compute's Nintendo Secrets", ISBN: 0874552346 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: Video games, Videogames, Games, Strategy, Puzzles, Passtimes, Hobbies, Nintendo Entertainment System, NES, Nintendo games, 1943, {1943 Video game}, Adventures of Lolo, Anticipation, Bionic Commando, Blades of Steel, Blaster Master, Bubble Bobble, Bump ""n' Jump, California Games, Castlevania II: Simon's Quest, City Connection, Clash at Demonhead, Double Dragon, Golgo 13, Gotcha!, Guerrilla War, Hoops, Karnov, Lee Trevino's Fighting Golf, The Legend of Zelda, Legendary Wings, Mappy-Land, Marble Madness, Mega Man II, Metal Gear, Mickey Mousecapade, Othello, Pac-Man, P.O.W., R.C. Pro-AM, RoboWarrior, Sesame Street 123, Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros. 2, Taboo: The Sixth Sense, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Tetris, The Three Stooges, Three Stooges, Tiger-Heli, Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, Athena, Jackal, Kid Kool, Operation Wolf, Stealth ATF, Computer games, Nintendō Kabushiki Kaisha
Places: Hyrule, Mushroom Kingdom
People: Mario, Nintendo's Mario, Bowser, Peach, Princess Toadstool, Yoshi, Luigi, Zelda, Link
Time periods: 1985-1989