This is a guide to seventeen games for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), each game review is divided into four sections, 'The Game' description of the story and type of game, 'The Controls' with a diagram of the NES controller showing how the play controls, 'The Challenge' description of how difficult the game may be to various people, and Strategies helpful hints to pass most of a games difficult sections. There is a full page illustration at the beginning of each game of the game game grouping, Fantasy, Arcade, and the such. The book was originally sold for $9.95, however in the 'Introduction' the author gives his reasons why he feels the "book is worth $382.50." This is the fourth book in the "Nintendo Master" series, it was preceeded by "Mastering Nintendo Video Games" ISBN: 0672484641, "Mastering Nintendo Video Games II" ISBN: 0672484919, and "Tricks of the Nintendo Masters" ISBN: 067248482X.