Readers can find winning tips and strategies to Nintendo's Super Mario Advance in this guidebook.

BradyGames Super Mario Advance Official Pocket Guideprovides detailed walkthroughs of all 20 levels of the game. Complete coverage of all four playable characters and each one's unique running, jumping, and acceleration abilities. A comprehensive breakdown of all items including bombs, turtle shells, and POW blocks. Bonus! A complete walkthrough of the updated version of the Mario Brothers arcade game with multiplayer coverage and tactics is included!

Stats on all characters, enemies, and items Locations for Ace Coins, Magic Potions, power-ups, and hidden Mushrooms revealed Tactics for winning every Bonus Chance Mini-Game Detailed strategies for all 7 Worlds Strategies for single-player mode for "Super Mario 2" and both single- and multiplayer modes for "Mario Bros."

In perhaps the most famous switcheroo in all of game history, the Japanese version of Super Mario Bros. 2 was declared "too hard" by Nintendo of America and replaced with a Mario-ified port of the Famicom hit, Yume Kōjō Doki Doki Panic. The new game (dubbed Super Mario USA in Japan) was a huge success for its four playable characters, improved graphics, immersive levels, and catchy music, and eventually became the 3rd bestselling game for the NES. And yet. Because of its strange new villains, its wild gameplay, and its mysterious touches, SMB2 has for years been regarded as the Odd Mario Out, even as it has seen popular updates on the Super NES and Game Boy Advance. Irwin's Mario is not a simple retelling of a 25-year-old story, but instead an examination of the game with fresh eyes: both as a product of its time and as a welcome change from the larger Super Mario franchise. Along the way he searches for clues, pulling up a few vegetables of his own. What he finds is not at all what he expected.

Super Mario Bros. 4, featuring the biggest star of the video game world, will be packaged with every 16-bit Super Nintendo set sold. A joint promotion with GamePro TV show and GamePro magazine will guarantee Mario's ongoing popularity. Players will need this "secrets" book to get them through the game.