Nintendo Player's Guide

Anthony says, "It ain't over yet." The continue trick was originally published in the instruction manual, but it was only printed in the Japanese one.

It was not available in the US until 1987 when they printed the official Nintendo players guide.

Okay, well, Tallicka's gotten to the bottom of this.

The ability to continue in the original Super Mario Brothers on the original Nintendo, that instruction to, to, to hold down A and hit start was in the Japanese instructions.

It didn't make it into the American instructions, and it showed up in the official Nintendo players guide in 1987, and I somehow did not know that.

That's crazy It's always funny how things like that happen.

Like, they put that in the game but then they didn't, like, make sure people knew.

I already mentioned several magazines that had this game on the cover, really overselling the game.

But how about some books? Top Secret Passwords, Nintendo Player's Guide.

I guess I didn't read this closely when I was a kid, right? Because it does mention the warp in the turbo tunnels, which had escaped my mind.

The more you know, right? Also, you can warp even in the first stage, right? But again, I like the first stage.

It's a lot like GTA, right? Like the original two GTAs, if memory serves me right.

Oh, the official Nintendo player's guide.

Who wrote this?

Do the dad move with your glasses so you can see.

So in the official Nintendo Player's Guide, there was an easily followable map for The Legend of Zelda.

There was also a map that you got with the game inside the cart or inside the box.

But for Metroid, there was no map inside the box.

For Metroid.