Wizardry

About this book

This is a guide book to the first two "Wizardry" video games. It is specially written for the Nintendo Entertainment System, and Family Computer {Famicom} version of the games "Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord", and "Wizardry II: Knight of Diamonds, The Second Scenario". It has tips, hints, and maps of the 10 floors of the first game, and 5/6 mazes of the second game. It has color illustrations of the various enemies in the game, color screenshots of the same characters as they appear in the game, and their status. There are also lists of the games weapons, and things that can be used in the game. There are also black and white character illustrations. The book was originaly published in Japan, under the title "Wizardry: All of Wizardry" ISBN: 4880636037, by Jicc Publishing Bureau, it only had the first 5 levels of "Wizardry: Knight of Diamonds, The Second Scenario", and a blank grid for drawing level 6. Although it is a paperback book, it had a outer sleeve, with color images, while the book itself, had bluish white version of the sleeve's images. The Japanese book was sold for 1165 Yen. For the USA version of the book, the text was split into two books. The first book had a original cover price of $10.00. The second half of the Japanese book was later re-released in the USA, and expanded to include the 6th maze, of the second game, under the title "All of Wizardry II: Wizardry II: Knight of Diamonds".

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