Star Wars Hint Book

Star Wars Hint Book
Attribution information
Author(s)	James Purple Hampton Jim Current and Ari Hollander (Contributions)
Cover artist	John Berkey
Illustrator(s)	Jesse Clark Ari Hollander (Cartographer)
Publication information
Publisher	LucasArts Entertainment Company
Release date	Early 1992
Type	Paperback
Pages	24
Dimensions	21.7 x 14 x 0.3 centimeters

"Star Wars Nintendo hint book written by one of our testers who has won the game many times!"

―The Adventurer 4

Star Wars Hint Book, also known as Star Wars Hintbook, was a strategy guide for 1991's Nintendo Entertainment System Star Wars video game. The small book was available via mail order in 1992. It detailed the levels, playable characters, and enemies from the game.

Contents

• Introduction
• General Skills and Strategies
• The Heroes
• Helpful Items
• Area By Area
  • Tattoine Desert (sic)
    • Blue Cave
    • Green Cave North
    • Green Cave East
    • Sandcrawler
    • Obi-Wan's Cave
    • Purple Cave
    • Brown Cave
  • Mos Eisley
    • Mos Eisley (streets)
    • Cantina
    • Docking Bay 94
  • Asteroid Field
  • The Death Star
    • Hangar
    • Hallway #1
    • Tractor Beam
    • Hallway #2
    • Trash Compactor (before)
    • Trash Compactor
    • Trash Compactor (after)
  • Millennium Falcon Gunner
  • X-Wing
  • Death Star Trench
• Rogues Gallery
  • Stormtroopers
  • Droids
• Scoring
• Credits

Appearances

By type

Characters	Organisms	Droid models	Events	Locations
Organizations and titles	Sentient species	Vehicles and vessels	Weapons and technology	Miscellanea

Characters

C-3PO Boba Fett Jabba Desilijic Tiure (as "Jabba the Hut") (Mentioned only) Obi-Wan Kenobi Leia Organa Han Solo Luke Skywalker R2-D2

Organisms

Bantha Dianoga (as Trash Compactor Monster) Rock Hound (as Womp-Rat) Sandfly (as Bug / flying insectoid) Sand Slug (as Space slug)

Droid models

3PO-series protocol droid EG-6 power droid (as Box-Shaped Droid) Fast-moving Probe Droid (First identified as Fast-moving Probe Droid) Large Sized Combat Droid (First identified as Large Sized Combat Droid) LIN demolitionmech autonomous minelayer (as Round Red Droid) R2-series astromech droid Small Size Droid (First identified as Small Size Droid) Tall Blue Droid (First identified as Tall Blue Droid) Viper probe droid (as Imperial probe droid) Wall Crawler Droid (First identified as Wall Crawler Droid)

Events

Galactic Civil War Battle of Tatooine Rescue of Princess Leia Battle of Yavin

Locations

Alderaan The Graveyard (as Asteroid Field) Tatooine (as Tattoine) Crawler Cavern (as Green Cave East) Laser Cave (as Blue Cave) Mos Eisley Chalmun's Spaceport Cantina Docking Bay 94 Obi-Wan's Cave Rock Hounds' Lair (as Green Cave North) Raider's Lair (as Brown Cave) Tusken Cave (as Purple Cave) Yavin 4 Great Temple (as Rebel Base)

Organizations and titles

Alliance to Restore the Republic Alliance Military Alliance Starfighter Corps Rebel pilot Bounty hunter Galactic Empire Imperial Navy Stormtrooper Corps Stormtrooper Jedi Order Jedi Knight Jedi Master Princess

Sentient species

Human Jawa Purple alien (First identified as Purple alien) Rodian (as Green Alien / Greedos) Rasta Alien (First identified as Rasta Alien) Tusken Raider

Vehicles and vessels

Death Star Death Star I Detention Block AA-23 (as Cell block 1138) Cell 2187 Docking Bay 327 Docking Control Room 327 Garbage Compactor 3263827 Meridian trench Lambda-class T-4a shuttle/Legends YT-1300 light freighter Millennium Falcon Sandcrawler Digger crawler T-65 X-wing starfighter TIE fighter

Weapons and technology

Blaster Blaster pistol DL-44 heavy blaster pistol Blaster rifle E-Web heavy repeating blaster Deflector shield Gaderffii (as Gaffi stick) Gun emplacement (First identified as Gun emplacement) Imperial Computer Network Ion blaster Jawa ionization blaster Lightsaber Anakin Skywalker's second lightsaber Mandalorian armor Metal Cruncher (First identified as Metal Crunchers) Metallic spikes Missile Quad laser cannon Radar turret (First identified as Radar turret) Turbolift Vacuum Tube (First identified as Vacuum Tubes) Z-6 jetpack

Miscellanea

Asteroids The Force

External links

• Star Wars Hint Book on the Internet Archive