Customer Reviews
The BEST Pokemon Guides are from VERSUS BOOKS! 
2005-05-16
When VERSUS BOOKS was out making some of the best guides ever (Resident Evil 2, Metal Gear Solid, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, and of course, they're highly sought Final Fantasy VII guide), they made a guide to Pokemon Yellow. This guide blew EVERY other guide out of the water with it's enriched detail, in-depth Pokedex and Secrets that not even Nintendo Power shared with gamers!
All the stuff before the walkthrough--the basics and such--will help any newcomers get adjusted to the game in the most user friendly way. They give you the basics on capturing, raising, and what type should go up against what type.
The walkthrough is where this guide shines the most! If you ever get a guide to Pokemon Yellow, make it this one simply because the walkthrough is more precise and in-depth than any other guide. The walkthrough is written a lot like the acclaimed Final Fantasy VII guide. For each area they list all the Pokemon available (they're sorted by version as well), they have detailed maps. The best part about the walkthrough was that they told you the pokemon roster for EVERY TRAINER IN THE GAME! You'd always know what you were getting yourself into thanks to VERSUS BOOKS.
When it came to Gym Leaders and the like, the guide wasn't as helpful. Luckily though, all you need is a roster to know how to take on Gym Leaders.
After the walkthrough comes the Pokedex. Anyone who has seen any other Pokemon guide knows that VERSUS BOOKS makes one helluva a Pokedex, detailing all the stats, moves, TMs, HMs and where to catch them at in each version. It's an exhaustive Pokedex, making up at least half the guide itself.
The appendices are great, and while there are a few typos, they aren't big. The secrets section is nice. This is the ONLY Pokemon guide for Red/Yellow/Blue that tells you about the secret glitches including Missingno and M-Block.
The only key problems with the guide are that they don't talk about surfing Pikachu, and they don't tell you how Gary will evolve his Eevee (Prima mentions this, however).
Overall, this probaly the best Pokemon Yellow guide you can buy. Pick it up if you can.
