This is a hints, tips, and strategy guide to the Nintendo 64 {N64} video game "The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening". It tells the story of Link as he is shipwrecked, and awakens on a strange island. It tells how to find all the items, fight the various enemies, and how to defeat the evil wizard Ganondorf. There are official color illustrations of the characters, as well as screenshot composite map. There is no ISBN listed, howevr there is a UPC: 045496690717. The early part of the book the history of the earlier Zelda games, featuring various illustrations, there are 4 artist listed on the books 'staff section; Katsuya Terada, Matsunori Iwamoto, Toshisada Nobuhara, Kenji Murata. The book originally cost $11.99 in the USA, and $21.00 in Canada.