Prima Games
Prima Games is a publisher of video game strategy guides founded in 1990 and based in California. The company is a division of Random House.
Prima Games published several officially licensed guidebooks for Mario games, which competed with concurrent Nintendo Power guides. Following Nintendo Power's sale by Nintendo of America and acquisition by Future USA, Prima entered a partnership with Nintendo in 2007[1], making it the sole official provider of strategy guides for Nintendo-developed titles.
Early in its life, the publisher released several unofficial guides (often suffixed with "Unauthorized Game Secrets") to games it did not have a license for. Such guides were made for Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, Diddy Kong Racing and Mario Kart 64, among others.
List of official guides
The games marked with an asterik (*) are featured as part of a compilation and do not have stand-alone guides published by Prima.
- Super Mario Bros. Deluxe
- Mario Party 2
- Mario Tennis
- Donkey Kong 64
- Paper Mario
- Mario Party 3
- Super Mario Advance
- Mario Kart: Super Circuit
- Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2
- Luigi's Mansion
- Super Smash Bros. Melee
- Donkey Kong Country
- Wario World
- Mario Party 4
- Super Mario Sunshine
- Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3
- Mario Party 5
- Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga
- Mario Kart: Double Dash
- Super Mario 64 DS*
- Mario Kart DS*
- New Super Mario Bros.*
- Mario Party DS*
- Yoshi's Island DS
- Super Smash Bros. Brawl
- Super Paper Mario
- Super Mario Galaxy
- Mario Party 8
- Mario Kart Wii
- Wario Land: Shake It!
- New Super Mario Bros. Wii
- Super Mario Galaxy 2
- Donkey Kong Country Returns
- Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games
- Super Mario 3D Land
- Mario Kart 7
- Mario Party 9
- New Super Mario Bros. 2
