Someone should try emailing the dude, see if he still has the pics of all those.
I have JeffD's email and I also have Grand Nestral Station archived on a CD that he personally sent me somewhere... if I can dig it up I'll check for pics.
Humn Dain to answer your questions my Star Wars hint book is not Eurpoean it is USA for sure. On King's Quest V I have two in my piles of NES books/magazines. One is smaller with a red plastic reader card to magically reveal answers that are shown as just all red unitl you use the reader. The other is larger like a book but reading through it just now I think that one is specifically for the computer version of the game?
^ From what you described, I think both of those may be computer exclusive.
I grew up on DOS games when I was little. I remember reading hint books for all of the sierra games (Leisure Suit Larry, Space Quest, etc.) with that red decoder. I also remember having a large book called the "King's Quest Companion" and it covered the first four games in the series. I'd be curious to see a true NES only guide for KQV...
Sierra did the red-filter for most of their games beyond the very first generation. Their earliest ones had a magic-pen (like those "Yes & Know" activity books) but they got rid of that after they realized people may want to reuse the book by passing it onto a friend, and then the answers would permanently be revealed.
Of course this was back before they were a big corporation, it was just Ken & Roberta on their home PC.
The computer version didn't have a password system, so any references to that within either hint book would mean it's exclusively for the NES. I'm not sure of other differences since I was a teenager when I played through my PC copy of KQV though.
I have the KQV hint book too and I'm sure it's just a matter of the PC one being sent to whoever called the number on the back of the manual and asked for it (or for something a little more tangible to help them get through the game). The one I have is definitely not a Nes-only book.
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Someone should try emailing the dude, see if he still has the pics of all those.
I have JeffD's email and I also have Grand Nestral Station archived on a CD that he personally sent me somewhere... if I can dig it up I'll check for pics.
I grew up on DOS games when I was little. I remember reading hint books for all of the sierra games (Leisure Suit Larry, Space Quest, etc.) with that red decoder. I also remember having a large book called the "King's Quest Companion" and it covered the first four games in the series. I'd be curious to see a true NES only guide for KQV...
Of course this was back before they were a big corporation, it was just Ken & Roberta on their home PC.
The computer version didn't have a password system, so any references to that within either hint book would mean it's exclusively for the NES. I'm not sure of other differences since I was a teenager when I played through my PC copy of KQV though.