Nintendo Gamebooks

Book #1: Double Trouble

Nintendo Adventure Books

The Nintendo Adventure Book series was published from 1991 to 1992 by Archway books, and Mammoth books in the United Kingdom. There are twelve in all. They are formatted like the popular Choose Your Own Adventure books, where the reader makes decisions that change the outcome of the story. Ten of the books are about the Mario Bros.' adventures in the Mushroom Kingdom and are based primarily on the Valiant comics published for the Nintendo Comics System 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.

Authors

Each of the authors brought a distinct style to the series. Notably, Bill McCay's characters seemed to break the fourth wall, aware that they were in a video game.

List of books

1. Double Trouble by Clyde Bosco^[1]
2. Leaping Lizards by Clyde Bosco
3. Monster Mix-Up by Bill McCay
4. Koopa Capers by Bill McCay
5. Pipe Down! by Clyde Bosco
6. Doors to Doom by Bill McCay
7. Dinosaur Dilemma by Clyde Bosco
8. Flown the Koopa by Matt Wayne
9. The Crystal Trap by Matt Wayne
10. The Shadow Prince by Matt Wayne
11. Unjust Desserts by Matt Wayne
12. Brain Drain by Matt Wayne

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

1. Super Mario Advance, ISBN 0-439-36708-5
2. The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons, ISBN 0-439-36709-3
3. The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages, ISBN 0-439-36710-7
4. Wario Land 4, ISBN 0-439-36711-5

See also

• Nintendo Comics System
• Worlds of Power

References

1. ^ "MARIO BROTHERS IN DOUBLE TROUBLE: NINTENDO ADVENTURE BOOK #1 (Nintendo Adventure Books, No. 1) (Paperback)." Amazon.com. Retrieved on November 11, 2008.

External links

Nintendo portal

• Reviews of the books
• Spectrum of Madness Reviews