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This is a hints, tips, strategy and walkthrough guide for games on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES). It has detailed walkthroughs, level by level descriptions for 32 games, and originally, quick tips passwords and cheats for 23 games, (despite the back of the book saying there are "over 25 Other Hot Games". It also says it is 320 pages but the last numbered page is 311, with the earlier title pages and such not being numbered. A UK version of the guide was also released with 111 games in the quick tips section. There are multiple gray-scale screenshots of each of the main 32 games, as well as diagram maps for the game "Equinox". Block area diagrams are given for the games "Prince of Persia", and "Wing Commander, showing which order to take the areas, and allows for details about that area in the text. Hidden within the book are dot matrix Stereograms, on pages zero, 24, 26, 97, 149, 152, 177, 240, 254, 286, 297 {missing from UK version}, and 306 {307 in UK version}. For the USA version there are black and white photos for each of the 'Peripherals' sections except for the 'Super NES Mouse'. {This and the "Buyer's Guide" section have been removed for the UK version.} The books front cover art is by Richard Fields.