ABOUT

The official 111-page guidebook for Einhander, Square's 1997 PlayStation shooter, published by ASCII in 1997 and prepared by the Famicom Tsushin book editorial team.

Einhander was Square's single venture into the horizontal shooter, built around a manipulator arm that steals enemy weapons, and the guide is the game's only dedicated book.

Its existence, an official guide from a major publisher for a shooter by an RPG house, captures the brief late 1990s moment when the genre still commanded mainstream publishing attention.

GAMES IN THIS BOOK

Einhander 1997 Square Product Development Division 5

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WHERE TO GET IT

Searched by ISBN, so a shop that has this exact edition will show it and one that does not will come back empty. Most of these were printed in Japan and never distributed elsewhere.