Tips & Tricks

Series

Identifier: MAG-TIPSTRICKS

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Scope and Contents

The library has a complete physical collection of the main run of Tips & Tricks. This collection also includes the majority issues of Tips & Tricks Video Game Codebook.

This magazine was unnumbered from May 1995 to December 1998 (Numbers 5–46). For consistency, issue numbers have been added to these earlier issues.

Dates

Publication: Spring 1994 – February 2011

Creator

Larry Flynt Publications (Publisher, Organization)
Chris Bieniek (Editor, Person)
Bill Kunkel, 1950-2011 (Editor, Person)

Full Extent

185 Magazines

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

Tips & Tricks was a long-running video game magazine that covered game strategies and cheat codes. The magazine was a spinoff of VideoGames & Computer Entertainment, also published by Larry Flynt Publications. For most of its run, Chris Bieniek was the magazine's editor-in-chief.

In addition to covering game tips, Tips & Tricks was one of the Americna game magazines that regularly covered video game community culture. The magazine included feature articles on fighting game tournaments, retro gaming, and video game merchandise.

Starting in 1998, Larry Flynt Publications also published a supplementary magazine, Tips & Tricks Video Game Codebook. Codebook was originally a directory of cheat codes but later incorporated strategy guides and game previews; it continued to be published semi-regularly for several years after the main Tips & Tricks magazine was discontinued in 2007, effectively replacing it.

Arrangement

Based on the volume numbering used by Tips & Tricks, Tips & Tricks Codebook was considered a special issue of the main magazine series, rather than its own publication (for instance, the 2000 Codebook special is listed as the tenth issue of Tips & Tricks, Volume 7). However, we have cataloged and shelved Codebook separately.

Holdings

Held:

Tips & Tricks

Numbers 1–45 (Spring 1994 – November 1998)
Numbers 46–150
Tips & Tricks Pokémon Report
Tips & Tricks Video Game Codebook:

Tips & Tricks 1998 Video Game Codebook, Collector's Edition
Tips & Tricks 1999 Video-Game Codebook, Special Edition
Tips & Tricks 2000 Video-Game Codebook, Special Edition, August 2000
Tips & Tricks 2001 Video-Game Codebook, Special Collector's Issue, May 2001
Tips & Tricks Video-Game Codebook, Special Edition, November 2001
Tips & Tricks Summer 2002 Video-Game Codebook, May 2002
Tips & Tricks Holiday 2002 Video-Game Codebook, November 2002
Tips & Tricks 2003 Video-Game Codebook, May 2003
Tips & Tricks Holiday 2003 Codebook, November 2003
Tips & Tricks Codebook 10th Anniversary Codebook, May 2004
Tips & Tricks Codebook, Special Edition, October 2004
Tips & Tricks Special Edition 2005 Video-Game Codebook, May 2005
Tips & Tricks 2005 Video-Game Codebook, October 2005
Tips & Tricks 2006 Video-Game Codebook, May 2006
Tips & Tricks 2006 Video-Game Codebook, Special Zombie Edition, October 2006
Tips & Tricks Super Video-Game Codebook, January 2007
Tips & Tricks Spring '07 Video-Game Codebook, March 2007
Tips & Tricks 2007 Video-Game Codebook, Summer 2007 ("Get Your Hands on Halo 3")
Tips & Tricks Video Game Codebook, September/October 2007
Tips & Tricks Video Game Codebook, November/December 2007
Tips & Tricks Video Game Codebook, January/February 2008
Tips & Tricks Video Game Codebook, March/April 2008
Tips & Tricks Video Game Codebook, May/June 2008
Tips & Tricks Video Game Codebook, July/August 2008
Tips & Tricks Video Game Codebook, September/October 2008
Tips & Tricks Video Game Codebook, November/December 2008
Tips & Tricks Video Game Codebook, January/February 2009
Tips & Tricks Video Game Codebook, March/April 2009
Tips & Tricks Video Game Codebook, May/June 2009
Tips & Tricks Video Game Codebook, July/August 2009
Tips & Tricks Video Game Codebook, September/October 2009
Tips & Tricks Video Game Codebook, November/December 2009
Tips & Tricks Video Game Codebook, March 2010
Tips & Tricks Video Game Codebook, July 2010
Tips & Tricks Video Game Codebook, September 2010
Tips & Tricks Video Game Codebook, November 2010