Best of
Games

2000

Player's Handbook


Monte Cook - 2000
    Updates bard, druid, monk, paladin, and ranger, spell lists and levels, skills, more feats.

The Art of Final Fantasy IX


Dan Birlew - 2000
    The book includes rarely-seen concept art and detailed pencil sketches, an immense collection of character art, airship and vehicle designs, monsters and unique weapon images, and full-page scenes from the most beautiful cinemas in video game history. Entertaining and informative commentary is provided as well as anecdotal captions relevant to story and events of FINAL FANTASY IX.

Pokemon Gold, Silver, and Crystal (Prima's Official Strategy Guide)


Elizabeth M. Hollinger - 2000
    Meet your new best friends!Pokémon on the Game Boy Color is back!! Pokémon Gold & Silver are coming and they're everything you love about Pokémon and more! These all-new adventures feature exciting new gameplay–an internal clock that means you'll only find certain Pokémon at certain times of the day or night, new Pokémon with genders and breeding, new technical and hidden machines, new battle powers, a new communications/scanner device called the "Pocket Gear," and more! But best of all, you'll find 100 More Pokémon! In Pokémon Gold & Silver: Prima's Official Strategy Guide , we'll take you on a complete tour of the game and provide:• An explanation of new features, including all-new PokéGear• Details of time- and day-dependent events• Day and Nitetime locations of Pokémon• Location of all items and TM/HMs• Battle tactics for collecting all the badges• Comprehensive maps of the new regions• Tips on breeding, capturing, raising, and training your new Pokémon• A sealed section that reveals all puzzles and mysteries

Dungeon Master's Guide


Skip Williams - 2000
    Run game, non-player characters, magic items (including intelligent and cursed items, and artifacts), dictionary of special abilities, item pricing, and more.

The Legend Of Zelda Majora's Mask (Prima's Official Strategy Guide)


Elizabeth M. Hollinger - 2000
    

The Reassess Your Chess Workbook: How to Master Chess Imbalances


Jeremy Silman - 2000
    This workbook may be utilizes with or without Silman's earlier book "How to Reassess Your Chess". Illustrations.

Pokemon Gold & Silver - Prima's Official Strategy Guide


Elizabeth M. Hollinger - 2000
    Meet your new best friends! Poke mon on the Game Boy Color is back!! "Poke mon Gold & Silver" are coming and they're everything you love about Poke mon and more! These all-new adventures feature exciting new gameplay- an internal clock that means you'll only find certain Poke mon at certain times of the day or night, new Poke mon with genders and breeding, new technical and hidden machines, new battle powers, a new communications/scanner device called the " Pocket Gear, " and more! But best of all, you'll find 100 More Poke mon! In "Poke mon Gold & Silver: Prima's Official Strategy Guide," we'll take you on a complete tour of the game and provide: - An explanation of new features, including all-new Poke Gear- Details of time- and day-dependent events- Day and Nitetime locations of Poke mon- Location of all items and TM/HMs- Battle tactics for collecting all the badges- Comprehensive maps of the new regions- Tips on breeding, capturing, raising, and training your new Poke mon- A sealed section that reveals all puzzles and mysteries

The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask Official Perfect Guide (Versus Books)


Casey Loe - 2000
    Versus Books The Legend of Zelda: Majora�s Mask Official Perfect Guide is the definitive resource for anyone who wants to get through the game successfully, and on their own terms. Rather than provide gamers with only one path to get through the game, Versus Books allows for all available options to be explored by offering "choose your own adventure-style navigation" throughout. Versus Books offers incredible, in-depth maps, dazzling graphics and complete game details. Hidden pathways and treasure locations are revealed along with "How To" strategies for using multiple masks for the best results.

Pokemon Gold and Silver Official Strategy Guide (Video Game Books)


Phillip Marcus - 2000
    New Pokemon--Catch 'Em, Breed 'Em, Raise 'Em Super-Useful Quick Reference Tables Covers Johto and Kanto Areas

Silly Sports and Goofy Games


Spencer Kagan - 2000
    Boost energy. Boost achievement. Release joy with the world s most comprehensive collection of indoor & outdoor, sport and game activities. Includes over 200, step-by-step, fun, and involving sports and games in nine categories, including: Terrific Tag, Happy Helpers, Beautiful Balances, Creative Coordination, Meaningful Movements, Crazy Challenges, Ridiculous Relays, Silly Sports and Goofy Games. Use em for classroom brain breaks. Use em for rainy-day fun. Use em for physical education. You will promote classroom community with these games everyone wins!

Planescape Torment: The Unofficial Torment Novel


Chris Avellone - 2000
    Rhys Hess has compiled the story from dialogs written by the original script-writers at Black Isle Studios and linking descriptions by himself.

Pleasures of Small Motions: Mastering the Mental Game of Pocket Billiards


Bob Fancher - 2000
    A psychotherapist and pool columnist breaks new ground by applying good science to the mental game of billiards and gives invaluable insight on competitive play.

501 Essential Backgammon Problems


Bill Robertie - 2000
    Strategies and situation cover every aspect of the game, from playing positions to doubling maneuvers. Everything is carefully explained and illustrated so that the reader understands all the concepts.

Narrative as Virtual Reality: Immersion and Interactivity in Literature and Electronic Media


Marie-Laure Ryan - 2000
    Formerly a culture of immersive ideals—getting lost in a good book, for example—we are becoming, Ryan claims, a culture more concerned with interactivity. Approaching the idea of virtual reality as a metaphor for total art, Narrative as Virtual Reality applies the concepts of immersion and interactivity to develop a phenomenology of reading.Ryan's analysis encompasses both traditional literary narratives and the new textual genres made possible by the electronic revolution of the past few years, such as hypertext, interactive movies and drama, digital installation art, and computer role-playing games. Interspersed among the book's chapters are several "interludes" that focus exclusively on either key literary texts that foreshadow what we now call "virtual reality," including those of Baudelaire, Huysmans, Ignatius de Loyola, Calvino, and science-fiction author Neal Stephenson, or recent efforts to produce interactive art forms, like the hypertext "novel" Twelve Blue, by Michael Joyce, and I'm Your Man, an interactive movie. As Ryan considers the fate of traditional narrative patterns in digital culture, she revisits one of the central issues in modern literary theory—the opposition between a presumably passive reading that is taken over by the world a text represents and an active, deconstructive reading that imaginatively participates in the text's creation.

Chess for Kids


Michael Basman - 2000
    Chess board graphics illustrate different scenarios and support the text explanations so readers can visualize different moves and their potential outcomes as they go.Let Chess for Kids and International Master Michael Basman turn you into a champion chess player.

Official Pokemon Gold & Silver Adventure Guide


Versus Staff - 2000
    The Versus Guide features appearance information and in-depth training secrets. Detailed maps provide a superior walk-through for both games. The full color guide also provides detailed bench statistics and incredible secret tricks and codes. A must-have for all Pokemon collectors!

The Morrowind Prophecies: Game of the Year Edition Official Strategy Guide


Peter Olafson - 2000
    Contains strategy tips for The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, Tribunal, and Bloodmoon.

The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask Official Strategy Guide (Official Strategy Guides)


Bart G. Farkas - 2000
    Find Every Heart Piece, Get Every Mask, Learn Every Song, Defeat Every Boss and Complete Every Sidequest with this complete guide! FREE poster included.

Queen's Gambit Declined


Matthew Sadler - 2000
    He discusses all of the major variations in popular practice, explaining the key plans and ideas and highlighting important recent developments.

Harvest Moon: Back to Nature: Prima's Official Strategy Guide


David Cassady - 2000
    He has passed away and the farm is in disrepair. The mayor has given you three years to make things right again. With no money and only your grandfather's rusty tools (and the pretty girls who live in the town), you and your faithful dog have got your work cut out for you! Prima has the best almanac for the job. Harvest Moon: Back to Nature–Prima's Official Strategy Guide offers all the information a virtual farmer could want, including:• Bushels of recipes to woo the girl of your dreams• Complete stats, bios, and advice on interacting with every character• Event calendars for each season• Tons of tables for tools, items, crops, and livestock• Great strategies to restore your farm to a land of plenty• Detailed listing of Special Events

Chrono Cross - Official Strategy Guide


Dan Birlew - 2000
    A bestiary and weapons, armor, accessories, and elements lists are included. Plus a detailed walkthrough revealing all side quests and strategies for every important battle!

Pokemon Stadium (Prima's Official Strategy Guide)


Prima Publishing - 2000
    Become Master of the Stadium.• In-depth battle tactics• Stats for every Pokémon–from Bulbasaur™ to Mew™• Every exclusive secret revealed• Strategies for each battle mode and minigame• Complete Pokédex featuring all 151 Pokémon• Comprehensive skills list

Scrye Presents! the Ultimate Unofficial Pokemon Price & Players Guide


Krause Publications - 2000
    This is the most complete guide to all the latest cards, including Team Rocket, and their values. It includes complete translations of Japanese cards and tips from some of the top players in the country.

Van Richten's Monster Hunter's Compendium Volume Three


Steve Miller - 2000
    Advanced Dungeons & Dragons fans who own the first two volumes of Van Richten's Monster Hunter's Compendium will complete their set with this Volume Three.

GURPS IOU: Welcome to Illuminati University!


Elizabeth McCoy - 2000
    College would have been more fun if you were allowed to blow up the instructors. And you really would have liked to major in Military Biology, Anti-Social Sciences, Double-Entendre Bookkeeping, or Computer Wizardry. Too bad you didn't know about IOU. Illuminati University is THE best place to learn Things Man Was Not Meant To Know. With departments like Weird and Unusual Science and Engineering, Inapplicable Mathematics, Misanthropology, and Zen Surrealism . . . not to mention extracurricular activities like Democrats for Cthulhu, Moopsball, and food fights that set off nuclear alerts . . . this is college as it should have been. And gadgets? Everything from the Crockpot of the Gods to the Enigmatic Alien Device Button-Pushing Table. Illustrated by the one and only (two and only?) Phil and Kaja Foglio, this book supports three different campaign styles . . . Silly, Weird, and Darkly Illuminated. GURPS IOU takes you from creating a character to enrolling in classes, to study, finals, and the occasional academic blood feud, all the way to graduation. If you survive.

Card Tricks Anyone Can Do


Temple C. Patton - 2000
    

Command & Conquer Red Alert 2: Prima's Official Strategy Guide


Steve Honeywell - 2000
    . .Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 is the next hot title in the C&C universe! A fast-paced real-time strategy game, Red Alert 2 emphasizes powerful units along with a variety of global missions. Prima's Official Strategy Guide features:• Techniques for using every unit and structure• Keys to economic supremacy• Allied and Soviet mission walkthroughs• Strategies for superior base-building• Multiplayer tips for success

Digital Fictions: Storytelling in a Material World


Sarah Sloane - 2000
    Written for students and faculty of contemporary literature and composition theories, this book is the first to move from general to specific considerations. Advancing from general considerations of how computers are changing literacy, Digital Fictions moves on to a specific consideration of how computers are altering one particular set of literature practices: reading and writing fiction.Suffused through the sensibility of a creative writer, this book includes an historical overview of writing stories on computers. In addition, Sloane conducts interviews with the makers of hypertext fictions (including Stuart Moulthrop, Michael Joyce, and Carolyn Guyer) and offers close reading of digital fictions. Making careful analyses of the meaning-making activities of both readers and writers of this emerging genre, this work is embedded in a perspective both feminist and semiotic. Digital Fictions explores and distinguishes among four distinct iterations of text-based digital fictions; text adventures, Carnegie Mellon University Oz Project, hypertext fictions, and MUDs. Ultimately, Sloane revises the rhetorical triangle and proposes a new rhetorical theory, one that attends to the materials, processes, and locations of stories told on-line.

Optical Illusions (Illusion Works)


Al Seckel - 2000
    

Kramnik: My Life & games


Vladimir Kramnik - 2000
    Still only in his mid twenties, he is now firmly consolidated in the world top three (as of 2000 when the book was published).This book describes Kramnik's rise to the elite levels of professional chess and ends just before his historic upset of Garry Kasparov later in 2000.

The Book of Camping Knots


Peter Owen - 2000
    A clear and concise handbook--essential for every camper.

Perfect Dark Official Strategy Guide


Tim Bogenn - 2000
    Expert Strategy leads you through every mission, including the bonus Special Assignments. Every Cheat and Hidden Item--Unlock new weapons, unlimited ammo, invincibility, and MUCH MORE! Complete Multiplayer Coverage helps you crerate incredible Custom Setups! Maps for Every Mission detail every objective and guide your way through each difficulty mode! THE PERFECT GAME! THE PERFECT GUIDE!