GAME> Joust (1988)
SYSTEM> NES
SOURCE> The Game Counsellor’s Answerbook for Nintendo Game Players, 1991
Man, what a sad look at Joust on NES! First, the manual is reported to be screwed up, suggesting the game has Smart …

GAME> Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Smash-Up (2009)
SYSTEM> Nintendo Wii
SOURCE> Red Baron Pizza trading cards, 2009
Man alive, like the Ninja Turtles need more ways to debase themselves. No, go ahead and unlock Mikey’s skateboarding rapper …

GAME> Berzerk (1980)
SYSTEM> Arcade
SOURCE> Video Games Winner’s Guide, 1982
This is from one of those tiny books that they sell over the conveyor belt at the grocery store. It is where I learned not to ever …

GAME> Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins (1992)
SYSTEM> Game Boy
SOURCE> Nintendo stickers (perhaps from a cereal box), 1993
OK, that first tip is crap, but the second is pretty cool. Two more tips follow.

GAME> Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time (2009)
SYSTEM> PS3
SOURCE> Joystiq, February 2010
And our global fascination with all things bancho continues unabated.

GAME> Onimusha: Warlords (2001)
SYSTEM> PS2
SOURCE> Official PlayStation Magazine #59, August 2002
Beat the game, be a panda.

GAME> NFL Blitz (1998)
SYSTEM> Game Boy Color
SOURCE> GamePro presents Handheld Video Games, Winter 1999
Tomorrow’s Super Bowl would be a lot more interesting if it took place in a parking lot and had a Predator Mode.

GAME> Mario Kart Wii (2008)
SYSTEM> Nintendo Wii
SOURCE> Mario Kart Wii Trading Cards, 2009
I bought ONE PACK of Mario Kart Wii cards and received two freakin’ Diddy Kong cards. WTF.
Bonus Piranha Prowler unlock tip after the …

GAME> Sam and Max Hit the Road (1993)
SYSTEM> PC
SOURCE> The Official Sam and Max Hintbook, 1993
I wish I had been strong enough to never break the seal on the game’s enclosed hintbook, but I wasn’t. …

GAME> Sonic Spinball (1993)
SYSTEM> Sega Genesis
SOURCE> Disney Adventures, June 1994
When I was a kid, I was scared spitless of the Game Genie. I had one for my Game Boy and I tiptoed around the thing …

GAME> NHL 2002 (2001)
SYSTEM> PS2
SOURCE> EGM #150, January 2002
They were, um, on the soundtrack.
Also Canadian.

GAME> Paper Mario (2001)
SYSTEM> N64
SOURCE> Electronic Gaming Monthly, 2001
Let’s welcome the New Year in obsessive compulsive style… with a massive chart detailing the location of all 160 Star Pieces hidden throughout Paper Mario! Complete scans …

GAME> Oni (2001)
SYSTEM> PC
SOURCE> PC Gamer, April 2001
Aw, remember Oni? Remember having to edit your persist.dat file in order to enter cheats? Remember when “winners” was made possessive? Part 2 after the jump.

GAME> Resident Evil 2 (1998)
SYSTEM> PS1
SOURCE> Resident Evil Magazine #1, March 1998
Continue on for two full pages of awful RE2 hints. This is one of those “tips that are really just a summarized instruction manual” …

GAME> Little Nemo: The Dream Master (1990)
SYSTEM> NES
SOURCE> Disney Adventures, April 1991
Here’s a twenty year old tip for a hundred year old character. Even today, animals will still do anything for candy.

GAME> Super Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (1994)
SYSTEM> Super NES
SOURCE> Nintendo Power #75, August 1995
Anybody feel like seeing if these codes still work on the Virtual Console version? Utinni!