Editing Strategy guide (section)

==Lists==
===Best-selling guide books===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center"
! Title
! Author(s)
! Year
! Sales
! Game(s)
! class="unsortable" | {{Abbr|Ref|Reference(s)}}
|-
| ''[[Final Fantasy VIII Ultimania]]''
| [[Studio BentStuff]]
| 1999
| 2,200,000
| ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]''
| <ref name="bent">{{cite web |title=会社沿革 |trans-title=Company History |url=http://www.bent.co.jp/company_2/ |website=[[Studio BentStuff]] |date=15 June 2016 |language=ja |access-date=21 February 2021}}</ref>
|-
| ''Mastering Pac-Man''
| [[Ken Uston]]
| 1981
| 1,700,000
| ''[[Pac-Man]]''
| <ref name="Uston">{{cite magazine |last1=Uston |first1=Ken |author1-link=Ken Uston |title=Arcade Games: Mastering Pac-Man Plus and Super Pac-Man |magazine=[[Creative Computing (magazine)|Creative Computing: Video & Arcade Games]] |date=Fall 1983 |volume=1 |issue=2 |page=32 |url=https://archive.org/details/Creative_Computing_Video_Arcade_Games_02_fall83/page/n33}}
*{{cite magazine |author=Ken Uston |date=Fall 1983 |title=Mastering Pac-Man Plus and Super Pac-Man |magazine=Creative Computing: Video & Arcade Games |volume=1 |issue=2 |page=32 |via=Atari Magazines |url=https://www.atarimagazines.com/cva/v1n2/pacman.php}}</ref>
|-
| ''Final Fantasy VII Kaitai Shinsho''
| [[Studio BentStuff]]
| 1997
| 1,700,000
| ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]''
| <ref name="bent"/>
|-
| ''Super Mario Bros: The Complete Strategy Guide''
| [[Tokuma Shoten]], Naoto Yamamoto
| 1985
| 1,300,000
| ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]''
| <ref>{{cite web |last1=Gifford |first1=Kevin |title=More on Tokuma's Mario Guide |url=http://magweasel.com/2011/05/04/more-on-tokumas-mario-guide/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140306054631/magweasel.com/2011/05/04/more-on-tokumas-mario-guide/ |website=Magweasel |url-status=dead |archive-date=2014-03-06 |access-date=22 February 2021 |date=May 4, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Yamamoto |first1=Naoto |title=【1985】 スーパーマリオ狂騒曲 - ふぁみこん「雑誌」昔話 |trans-title=(1985) Super Mario Bros. Famicom "Magazine" Old Story |url=http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sarnin+famimaga/20110423/1303564225 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110426083602/d.hatena.ne.jp/sarnin+famimaga/20110423/1303564225 |website=[[Hatena (company)|Hatena]] |date=2011-04-23 |language=ja |url-status=dead |archive-date=2011-04-26 |access-date=22 February 2021}}</ref>
|-
| ''Myst: The Official Strategy Guide''
| Rusel DeMaria, Rick Barba
| 1993
| 1,200,000
| ''[[Myst]]''
| <ref>{{cite book |last1=DeMaria |first1=Rusel |title=High Score! Expanded: The Illustrated History of Electronic Games |date=7 December 2018 |publisher=[[CRC Press]] |isbn=978-0-429-77139-2 |edition=3rd |page=16 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dAF-DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT16}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Final Fantasy X Scenario Ultimania]]''
| [[Studio BentStuff]]
| 2001
| 1,000,000
| ''[[Final Fantasy X]]''
| <ref name="bent"/>
|-
| ''[[How to Master the Video Games]]''
| Tom Hirschfeld
| 1981
| 650,000
| [[Arcade games]]
| <ref name="Ludington-1982">{{cite web|title=Learn The Code Book And Beat Video Games|work=[[Ludington, Michigan#Media|Ludington Daily News]]|date=March 1, 1982|page=25|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=HZpaAAAAIBAJ&pg=4643,3691324}}</ref>
|-
| ''Tomb Raider III'' strategy guide
| {{Unknown}}
| 1999
| 350,000
| ''[[Tomb Raider III]]''
| <ref>{{cite magazine |title=DataStream |magazine=[[Edge (magazine)|Edge]] |date=24 November 1999 |issue=79 (December 1999) |page=132 |url=https://retrocdn.net/images/b/bb/Edge_UK_079.pdf#page=134}}</ref>
|}

===Best-selling guide series===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center"
! Series
! Sales
! Revenue
! Games
! class="unsortable" | {{Abbr|Ref|Reference}}
|-
| ''[[Ultimania]]''
| 12,000,000
| {{Unknown}}
| [[List of Square Enix video game franchises|Square Enix games]]
| <ref>{{cite web |title=会社情報 |trans-title=Company Information  |url=http://www.bent.co.jp/company_1/ |website=[[Studio BentStuff]] |date=15 June 2016 |language=ja |access-date=21 February 2021 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170112113548/www.bent.co.jp/company_1/ |archive-date=2017-01-12}}</ref>
|-
| ''Pokémon'' strategy books
| {{Unknown}}
| ${{To USD|15400|JPN|year=2004|round=yes}},000,000
| [[Pokémon (video game series)|''Pokémon'' series]]
| <ref name="Nakagawa">{{cite web |title=Nakagawa Report ~ Toward a Sustainable and Competitive Industrial Structure ~ (Summary) |url=https://www.rieti.go.jp/en/events/bbl/04070101.pdf#page=11 |website=Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RETI) |publisher=[[Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry]] (METI) |date=May 2004 |page=10 |language=ja |access-date=27 January 2021}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' strategy guides
| 3,000,000
| {{Unknown}}
| ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' series
| <ref>{{cite news |last1=Siegel |first1=Tatiana |last2=Kit |first2=Borys |title='Metal Gear Solid' film being forged at Columbia |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/metal-gear-solid-film-being-129850/ |access-date=11 September 2021 |work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |date=9 February 2007}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Pac-Man]]'' guide books
| 1,700,000+
| {{Unknown}}
| ''[[Pac-Man]]''
| <ref name="Uston"/>
|-
| ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]'' guide books
| 1,600,000
| {{Unknown}}
| ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]'' series
| <ref>{{cite news |last1=Johnson |first1=Steven |title=Viva virtuality |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2005/may/22/observerreview.onlinesupplement |access-date=11 September 2021 |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=22 May 2005 |language=en}}</ref>
|}