No no no, 10 May 2004
A terrible walkthrough guide that i would not recommend to any one. The blatant lack of thought into structure and material to be included in this guide really shows. It is a shame as i had the Brady Games guide to Final Fantasy VII which was truly excellent. Now i will be much more cautious when buying Brady Games books. Try elsewhere!

pokemon ruby trainers guide, 04 Aug 2003
what can i say the auther claims it to be a COMPLETE walkthrough though it deos not follow the game through and is not very specific e.g(work you way throu this cave to reach the other side) it has no evolution chart and only a pokemon library wich only tells you size and type of the pokemon including a picture that you need a magnafiing glass to see.

in short, dont buy this, get primas guide!

Nice cover, but just the basics inside....., 31 Jul 2003
when i purchased the new pokemon shappire game i straight away bought this walkthrough. It had a cool cover and i flicked through it quickly and it seemed alright. when i got home the cover said "Find the pokemon info you need--fast!" so i searched through it only to find a pokemon libary which showed a tiny picture of each pokemon and its height and all the useless info. i for one was very disapointed.I hoped that it would show what moves each pokemon could learn but there was nothing.The guide also didn't tell where to find the pokemon but only the "notable pokemon" were, but for some reason i never came across. overall i was very dissapointed with this guide. as before (for pokemon gold and silver) i purchaced a prima guide which this guide never near came to the helpfulness and standard of it.the 2 stars where for the full colour maps given and also a list of what pokemon each trainer had...but still, i found a few mistakes within that. showing the wrong poke'mon overall. But anyway this guide really is stright in and stright out and found this really not that useful.

Catch them all? Not quit!, 26 Jul 2003
This is not a complete guide as the author claims to be. In face, i am not so sure it is a guide! It does follow the game through, a walkthrough with colored maps. Hence the two star rating. But a trainer's guide? No detailed pokedex, (It does has pokemon library at the back but it tells you nothing the in game pokedex doesn't.). No Move Listing. No Item listing. No TM & HM Chart. No marking of items on the map. No evolution chart. No area listing of pokemon. Fair enough, the game has improved a lot on details within the game itself, however, a complete guide should at least have some if not all of them? Worst of all, i see no comparison between the Ruby and Sapphire Version at all (except the color that is). Marcus man, Game Over!

Just excellent, 06 Jul 2003
I bought this book because I just couldn't get through one of the games many puzzles and since then it has helped me through them all. Its definately great value for money!

No no no, 10 May 2004
A terrible walkthrough guide that i would not recommend to any one. The blatant lack of thought into structure and material to be included in this guide really shows. It is a shame as i had the Brady Games guide to Final Fantasy VII which was truly excellent. Now i will be much more cautious when buying Brady Games books. Try elsewhere!

pokemon ruby trainers guide, 04 Aug 2003
what can i say the auther claims it to be a COMPLETE walkthrough though it deos not follow the game through and is not very specific e.g(work you way throu this cave to reach the other side) it has no evolution chart and only a pokemon library wich only tells you size and type of the pokemon including a picture that you need a magnafiing glass to see.

in short, dont buy this, get primas guide!

Nice cover, but just the basics inside....., 31 Jul 2003
when i purchased the new pokemon shappire game i straight away bought this walkthrough. It had a cool cover and i flicked through it quickly and it seemed alright. when i got home the cover said "Find the pokemon info you need--fast!" so i searched through it only to find a pokemon libary which showed a tiny picture of each pokemon and its height and all the useless info. i for one was very disapointed.I hoped that it would show what moves each pokemon could learn but there was nothing.The guide also didn't tell where to find the pokemon but only the "notable pokemon" were, but for some reason i never came across. overall i was very dissapointed with this guide. as before (for pokemon gold and silver) i purchaced a prima guide which this guide never near came to the helpfulness and standard of it.the 2 stars where for the full colour maps given and also a list of what pokemon each trainer had...but still, i found a few mistakes within that. showing the wrong poke'mon overall. But anyway this guide really is stright in and stright out and found this really not that useful.

Catch them all? Not quit!, 26 Jul 2003
This is not a complete guide as the author claims to be. In face, i am not so sure it is a guide! It does follow the game through, a walkthrough with colored maps. Hence the two star rating. But a trainer's guide? No detailed pokedex, (It does has pokemon library at the back but it tells you nothing the in game pokedex doesn't.). No Move Listing. No Item listing. No TM & HM Chart. No marking of items on the map. No evolution chart. No area listing of pokemon. Fair enough, the game has improved a lot on details within the game itself, however, a complete guide should at least have some if not all of them? Worst of all, i see no comparison between the Ruby and Sapphire Version at all (except the color that is). Marcus man, Game Over!

Just excellent, 06 Jul 2003
I bought this book because I just couldn't get through one of the games many puzzles and since then it has helped me through them all. Its definately great value for money!

Game Boys Is A Winner, 29 Jun 2008
Games Boys: Professional Videogaming's Rise from the Basement to the Big Time by Michael Kane is the best inside look at the competitive videogaming industry I have read to date. He peels back the layers of this very complex subculture and lays it all out there for anyone to read - from the gamers themselves to the parents who try to understand. Game Boys has it all - the celebratory victories, the heartbreaking losses, the passion of its supports and accompanies it all with backroom dirty laundry. This book is an informative, exciting read. Author Michael Kane has managed to translate the excitement of competition into his words, and sometimes I found myself reading faster through the competition gameplay to get to the moment of victory - even though I already knew the results of many of the matches he wrote about.

As a participant full of passion for the videogame industry, there were so many times I found myself identifying with CompLexity GM Jason Lake and harbouring feelings of resentment towards Craig Levine. Like Jason Lake, I believe in the grassroots foundation of this wonderful industry, and even though Craig Levine has done much to get competitive videogaming out there into the main stream of today's world, I often felt that Levine's tactics were less than honourable, and I am of the generation when honour was at the forefront of how you conducted your life. These are elements which make for a great book - eliciting emotion and appreciation from the reader, making the reader care about the characters in the story.

Michael Kane has artfully included every aspect of our advancing technological world - global friendships and rivalries, heroes and villains, supportive families and families who feel the gamer is wasting his or her time. Corporations who only look at the biggest and the best for exposure, instead of looking at and supporting the grassroots events and players who keep the industry churning forward on a daily basis. Event promoters who are in it for the dollar, and to heck with the injury they do to our industry by scamming the players who have poured their heart, soul and often their last dollar into feeding their passion for gaming in hopes of making it to the winner's circle.

I commend Michael for the honesty of his words, even the ones which cast a less than idyllic light on the e-sports industry, because the end result shows that our cyberathletes truly are no different from the mainstream sports athletes. They train, they play, they do things they shouldn't, but when it comes right down to the final seconds it's all about the game and the opponent in front of them. Game Boys shows how far we as a competitive market have come, but also shows how far we have yet to go. Michael touched very briefly on the girls in gaming, and while some things have changed since Game Boys went to print, much has stayed the same, from the disdain which meets many girl gamers head on, to the insults and unwelcome photos hurled at them on XBL. While the industry is still very much a boys' club, the girls are rapidly gaining ground - perhaps in the future we can look forward to a book on Gamer Girls to compliment Gamer Boys - what do you say, Michael?

No no no, 10 May 2004
A terrible walkthrough guide that i would not recommend to any one. The blatant lack of thought into structure and material to be included in this guide really shows. It is a shame as i had the Brady Games guide to Final Fantasy VII which was truly excellent. Now i will be much more cautious when buying Brady Games books. Try elsewhere!

pokemon ruby trainers guide, 04 Aug 2003
what can i say the auther claims it to be a COMPLETE walkthrough though it deos not follow the game through and is not very specific e.g(work you way throu this cave to reach the other side) it has no evolution chart and only a pokemon library wich only tells you size and type of the pokemon including a picture that you need a magnafiing glass to see.

in short, dont buy this, get primas guide!

Nice cover, but just the basics inside....., 31 Jul 2003
when i purchased the new pokemon shappire game i straight away bought this walkthrough. It had a cool cover and i flicked through it quickly and it seemed alright. when i got home the cover said "Find the pokemon info you need--fast!" so i searched through it only to find a pokemon libary which showed a tiny picture of each pokemon and its height and all the useless info. i for one was very disapointed.I hoped that it would show what moves each pokemon could learn but there was nothing.The guide also didn't tell where to find the pokemon but only the "notable pokemon" were, but for some reason i never came across. overall i was very dissapointed with this guide. as before (for pokemon gold and silver) i purchaced a prima guide which this guide never near came to the helpfulness and standard of it.the 2 stars where for the full colour maps given and also a list of what pokemon each trainer had...but still, i found a few mistakes within that. showing the wrong poke'mon overall. But anyway this guide really is stright in and stright out and found this really not that useful.

Catch them all? Not quit!, 26 Jul 2003
This is not a complete guide as the author claims to be. In face, i am not so sure it is a guide! It does follow the game through, a walkthrough with colored maps. Hence the two star rating. But a trainer's guide? No detailed pokedex, (It does has pokemon library at the back but it tells you nothing the in game pokedex doesn't.). No Move Listing. No Item listing. No TM & HM Chart. No marking of items on the map. No evolution chart. No area listing of pokemon. Fair enough, the game has improved a lot on details within the game itself, however, a complete guide should at least have some if not all of them? Worst of all, i see no comparison between the Ruby and Sapphire Version at all (except the color that is). Marcus man, Game Over!

Just excellent, 06 Jul 2003
I bought this book because I just couldn't get through one of the games many puzzles and since then it has helped me through them all. Its definately great value for money!

Game Boys Is A Winner, 29 Jun 2008
Games Boys: Professional Videogaming's Rise from the Basement to the Big Time by Michael Kane is the best inside look at the competitive videogaming industry I have read to date. He peels back the layers of this very complex subculture and lays it all out there for anyone to read - from the gamers themselves to the parents who try to understand. Game Boys has it all - the celebratory victories, the heartbreaking losses, the passion of its supports and accompanies it all with backroom dirty laundry. This book is an informative, exciting read. Author Michael Kane has managed to translate the excitement of competition into his words, and sometimes I found myself reading faster through the competition gameplay to get to the moment of victory - even though I already knew the results of many of the matches he wrote about.

As a participant full of passion for the videogame industry, there were so many times I found myself identifying with CompLexity GM Jason Lake and harbouring feelings of resentment towards Craig Levine. Like Jason Lake, I believe in the grassroots foundation of this wonderful industry, and even though Craig Levine has done much to get competitive videogaming out there into the main stream of today's world, I often felt that Levine's tactics were less than honourable, and I am of the generation when honour was at the forefront of how you conducted your life. These are elements which make for a great book - eliciting emotion and appreciation from the reader, making the reader care about the characters in the story.

Michael Kane has artfully included every aspect of our advancing technological world - global friendships and rivalries, heroes and villains, supportive families and families who feel the gamer is wasting his or her time. Corporations who only look at the biggest and the best for exposure, instead of looking at and supporting the grassroots events and players who keep the industry churning forward on a daily basis. Event promoters who are in it for the dollar, and to heck with the injury they do to our industry by scamming the players who have poured their heart, soul and often their last dollar into feeding their passion for gaming in hopes of making it to the winner's circle.

I commend Michael for the honesty of his words, even the ones which cast a less than idyllic light on the e-sports industry, because the end result shows that our cyberathletes truly are no different from the mainstream sports athletes. They train, they play, they do things they shouldn't, but when it comes right down to the final seconds it's all about the game and the opponent in front of them. Game Boys shows how far we as a competitive market have come, but also shows how far we have yet to go. Michael touched very briefly on the girls in gaming, and while some things have changed since Game Boys went to print, much has stayed the same, from the disdain which meets many girl gamers head on, to the insults and unwelcome photos hurled at them on XBL. While the industry is still very much a boys' club, the girls are rapidly gaining ground - perhaps in the future we can look forward to a book on Gamer Girls to compliment Gamer Boys - what do you say, Michael?

MegaMan Battle Chip Challenge Official Strategy Guide, 22 Jul 2004
This is the best and only strategy guide there is for the new MegaMan Battle Chip Challenge! It shows you character biographies, cool pictures, and a step-by-step guide to all opponents you'll meet, including their strenghths and weaknesses, and how to beat them. This guide also features a list of all chips, and Navis, to be acquired, and what they do, their element, etc. And for those of you who wish to compete against friend in your homemade tournament, but have none to go against, this guide also features codes to use, and they work! I found this guide extremely helpful, and the game now looks much easiser to win.