Worlds of Power

The Worlds of Power books are a series of novelizations of video games for the Nintendo Entertainment System released in the early 1990s by Scholastic.

Godin decided to create books that appealed to children who played video games.

The other video game creators successfully negotiated and Scholastic Books approved the project.

Then he set to create one 40-page "bible" for each game outlining the plot, characters, and level layouts to assist the authors' creation of the dialog and narratives.

Godin and the authors played through the games without strategy guides in order to reverse-engineer the stories.

He added that the success of the Worlds of Power series outweighed the drawbacks; around one million copies of the books were sold.

1up.com added that this was "especially remarkable" as the target audience, young boys, were not considered to be a large market for book series.

Singer" and wrote the novelizations of Bases Loaded II: Second Season, Blaster Master, Infiltrator, and Ninja Gaiden.

For instance in Ninja Gaiden's cover, the dagger that Ryu Hayabusa held in front of him is no longer visible.

In the Blaster Master book, the bosses appearing like mutated animals are holographic projections placed on formless blobs.