Prima Games

Prima Games
Type		Subsidiary
Founded		1990
Headquarters		Shreveport, Louisiana, United States
Products		Video game strategy guides
Parent		Gamurs Group
Website		https://primagames.com

Prima Games is an American publishing company that publishes video game strategy guides. Prima Games was founded in 1990. Prima published officially licensed strategy guides for Animal Crossing, Animal Crossing: City Folk, and Animal Crossing: New Leaf.

Prima Games ceased publication of print strategy guides in 2019 after being acquired by Asteri Holdings, instead only releasing digital guides. Since January 2022, it is owned by Gamurs Group.

List of Animal Crossing strategy guides

Title	Image	Publisher	Release date	# of pages	MSRP	ISBN	Notes	Ref.
Animal Crossing: Prima's Official Strategy Guide		Random House, Inc.	September 24, 2002	142	US$14.99 CA$19.95 £12.99	0-7615-4117-9	-
Animal Crossing: City Folk – Prima Official Game Guide		Random House, Inc.	2008	208	Unknown	978-07615-6119-4	-
Animal Crossing: New Leaf – Prima Official Game Guide		Random House, Inc.	2013	527	US$19.99 CA$22.00 £12.99 AU$34.95	978-0-307-89707-7	-

List of mistakes and incorrect information

Animal Crossing

• The guide states that the player starts off with no money. However, the player starts with 1,000 Bells.
• The guide states that jock villagers wake up at 6 AM. They actually wake up at 5:30 AM.
• The guide states that normal villagers wake up at 9 AM and go to sleep at 3 AM. They actually wake up at 5 AM and go to sleep at 9 PM.
• The guide states that snooty villagers wake up at 7 AM and go to sleep at 12:00 AM. They actually wake up at 9 AM and go to sleep at 2:30 AM.
• The guide states that peppy villagers wake up at 5:00 AM and go to sleep at 9:00 PM. They actually wake up at 7 AM and go to sleep at 11:30 PM.
• The guide states that both the main room expansion and basement addition for the player's house cost 49,800 Bells. In reality, only the expansion the player chooses to do first costs 49,800 Bells; the other costs 148,000.
• The guide misspells Blanca as "Bianca".
• The guide lists a character named "Mr. Racketti". His description, "Chilled out groundhog," suggests this is meant to be Don Resetti; however, the artwork displayed next to the name is that of Mr. Resetti during Groundhog Day.
• The guide erroneously uses artwork of Farley for the snowman. Farley himself is not listed in the list of characters.
• The guide lists Timmy and Tommy's full names as "Timmy Nookling" and "Tommy Nookling". Their last name is not revealed in-game; however, in subsequent media it is revealed to simply be "Nook".
• The guide misspells Wisp as "Whisp".
• The guide lists Wendell as a "Traveling (and hungry) carpet seller." Wendell only offers the player wallpaper and does not sell it.
• The guide erroneously uses artwork of Jane for June.

City Folk

• The guide lists the savings requirements for the box of tissues and piggy bank as 10,000 and 1,000,000 Bells, respectively. The actual requirements are 100,000 and 10,000,000 Bells, respectively.
• The guide states that the house model, wide house model, and two-story model can be purchased from Tom Nook's store as spotlight items. In reality, these items are obtained from the HRA after reaching 70,000, 100,000, and 150,000 points, respectively.
• The guide erroneously uses an image of the frog shirt for the 2011 New Year's shirt.
• The guide states that centipedes are found on flowers. In reality, they are found under rocks.

New Leaf

• The guide states that the silver axe is unbreakable. In reality, it breaks after 136 uses; only the golden axe is unbreakable.
• The guide states that Kicks is a fox, when he is actually a skunk.
• The guide lists the buy price of the throne as 8,000 Bells, when it is actually 800,000.

References

Companies and personnel

Companies Nintendo DeNA iQue NDcube OLM, Inc. Prima Games Sanrio Shogakukan Developers Katsuya Eguchi Aya Kyogoku Isao Moro Hisashi Nogami Takashi Tezuka Makoto Wada Composers Atsuko Asahi Sayako Doi Shiho Fujii Asuka Hayazaki Yasuaki Iwata Manaka Kataoka Toru Minegishi Kenta Nagata Shinobu Nagata Masato Ohashi Yumi Takahashi Kazumi Totaka Voice actors Mari Adachi Hisao Egawa Takaya Hashi Saori Hattori Yurika Hino Yui Horie Mitsup Iwata Takatoshi Kaneko Mika Kanai Yuichi Kimura Yū Kobayashi Takashi Miike Fukuen Misato Yuko Mizutani Kenichi Ogata Shun Oguri Fumiko Orikasa Otoha Tetsuo Sakagachi Akio Suyama Wataru Takagi Yasuhiro Takata Kazuya Tatekabe Junpei Takiguchi Naoki Tatsuta Masaki Terasoma Yuji Ueda Kappei Yamaguchi Other personnel Reggie Fils-Aimé Jōji Shimura Staff lists Doubutsu no Mori Doubutsu no Mori+ Animal Crossing Doubutsu no Mori e+ Wild World City Folk New Leaf Happy Home Designer New Horizons Category (companies) • Category (personnel)