Prima Games

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Prima Games
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Type Subsidiary
Founded 1990
Headquarters Shreveport, Louisiana, United States
Products Video game strategy guides
Parent Gamurs Group
Website https://primagames.com

Prima Games is an American publishing company that publishes video game strategy guides. Prima Games was founded in 1990. Prima published officially licensed strategy guides for Animal Crossing, Animal Crossing: Wild World, Animal Crossing: City Folk, and Animal Crossing: New Leaf.

Prima Games ceased publication of print strategy guides in 2019 after being acquired by Asteri Holdings, instead only releasing digital guides.[1] Since January 2022, it is owned by Gamurs Group.

List of Animal Crossing strategy guides[edit]

Title Image Publisher Release date # of pages MSRP ISBN Notes Ref.
Animal Crossing: Prima's Official Strategy Guide Animal Crossing Prima Guide.jpg Random House, Inc. United States of America September 24, 2002 142 US$14.99
CA$19.95
£12.99
0-7615-4117-9 -
Animal Crossing: City Folk – Prima Official Game Guide City Folk Prima Guide.jpg Random House, Inc. United States of America 2008 208 Unknown 978-07615-6119-4 -
Animal Crossing: New Leaf – Prima Official Game Guide New Leaf Prima Guide.jpg Random House, Inc. United States of America 2013 527 US$19.99
CA$22.00
£12.99
AU$34.95
978-0-307-89707-7 -

List of mistakes and incorrect information[edit]

Animal Crossing[edit]

  • The guide states that the player starts off with no money.[2] However, the player starts with 1,000 Bells.
  • The guide states that jock villagers wake up at 6 AM.[3] They actually wake up at 5:30 AM.
  • The guide states that normal villagers wake up at 9 AM and go to sleep at 3 AM.[3] They actually wake up at 5 AM and go to sleep at 9 PM.
  • The guide states that snooty villagers wake up at 7 AM and go to sleep at 12:00 AM.[3] They actually wake up at 9 AM and go to sleep at 2:30 AM.
  • The guide states that peppy villagers wake up at 5:00 AM and go to sleep at 9:00 PM.[4] They actually wake up at 7 AM and go to sleep at 11:30 PM.
  • The guide states that both the main room expansion and basement addition for the player's house cost 49,800 Bells.[5] In reality, only the expansion the player chooses to do first costs 49,800 Bells; the other costs 148,000.
  • The guide misspells Blanca as "Bianca".[5]
  • The guide lists a character named "Mr. Racketti". His description, "Chilled out groundhog," suggests this is meant to be Don Resetti; however, the artwork displayed next to the name is that of Mr. Resetti during Groundhog Day.[5]
  • The guide erroneously uses artwork of Farley for the snowman. Farley himself is not listed in the list of characters.[6]
  • The guide lists Timmy and Tommy's full names as "Timmy Nookling" and "Tommy Nookling".[6] Their last name is not revealed in-game; however, in subsequent media it is revealed to simply be "Nook".
  • The guide misspells Wisp as "Whisp".[6]
  • The guide lists Wendell as a "Traveling (and hungry) carpet seller." Wendell only offers the player wallpaper and does not sell it.[6]
  • The guide erroneously uses artwork of Jane for June.[7]

City Folk[edit]

New Leaf[edit]

  • The guide states that the silver axe is unbreakable.[12] In reality, it breaks after 136 uses; only the golden axe is unbreakable.
  • The guide states that Kicks is a fox,[13] when he is actually a skunk.
  • The guide lists the buy price of the throne as 8,000 Bells,[14] when it is actually 800,000.

References[edit]

  1. Brendan Sinclair (March 14, 2019). "Asteri acquires Prima Games". GamesIndustry.biz. Retrieved August 11, 2022.
  2. Animal Crossing: Prima's Official Strategy Guide, page 4
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Animal Crossing: Prima's Official Strategy Guide, page 6
  4. Animal Crossing: Prima's Official Strategy Guide, page 7
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 Animal Crossing: Prima's Official Strategy Guide, page 9
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Animal Crossing: Prima's Official Strategy Guide, page 10
  7. Animal Crossing: Prima's Official Strategy Guide, page 19
  8. Animal Crossing: City Folk – Prima Official Game Guide, page 17
  9. Animal Crossing: City Folk – Prima Official Game Guide, page 135
  10. Animal Crossing: City Folk – Prima Official Game Guide, page 161
  11. Animal Crossing: City Folk – Prima Official Game Guide, page 183
  12. Animal Crossing: New Leaf – Prima Official Game Guide, page 18
  13. Animal Crossing: New Leaf – Prima Official Game Guide, page 58
  14. Animal Crossing: New Leaf – Prima Official Game Guide, page 276