Prima Games

Prima Games is a publisher of video game strategy guides founded in 1990 and based in California. The company is a division of Random House.

Prima Games published several officially licensed guidebooks for Mario games, which competed with concurrent Nintendo Power guides. Following Nintendo Power's sale by Nintendo of America and acquisition by Future USA, Prima entered a partnership with Nintendo in 2007, making it the sole official provider of strategy guides for Nintendo-developed titles.

Early in its life, the publisher released several unofficial guides (often suffixed with "Unauthorized Game Secrets") to games it did not have a license for. Such guides were made for Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, Diddy Kong Racing and Mario Kart 64, among others.

Super Nintendo
Only one official Mario game guide for the Super Nintendo was published, and that was for the game Donkey Kong Country.

Nintendo 64
Prior to obtaining a license from Nintendo, Prima published several game guides for the Nintendo 64. After becoming licensed, Prima released a few editions which included several games in the one guide. Many of the games which were covered by such editions were the games Prima published before becoming licensed, such as Yoshi Story.

Game Boy/Game Boy Color
Many of the games on the Game Boy and Game Boy Color were not vast enough to each have their own game guide, so like the Nintendo 64, several "mash up" editions were published. Two of them featured Mario on the cover. The game Super Mario Bros. Deluxe was the only Mario game for the Game Boy Color to get its own guide.

GameCube
The following six guides were published for Mario games on the GameCube.

Game Boy Advance
Five Mario game guides were published for the Game Boy Advance.

Nintendo DS
Few guides were made for Mario games on the Nintendo DS. A total of six games were covered, but four of them were part of a compilation.

Wii
Nine Mario games were covered by Prima for the Wii console. Both a premiere and collectors edition were published for Super Mario Galaxy and its sequel. The collectors edition included bonus content, such as original concept art

Nintendo 3DS
So far, every Mario game for the Nintendo 3DS has a guide, except for Mario Tennis Open. Interestingly, the New Super Mario Bros. 2 guide is opened upwards.

Wii U
The Wii U has so far covered two Mario games.