Sybex Partners with Nintendo of America to Publish Officially Licensed " Novelization" of Poké mon™ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE San Francisco, CA, March 3, 1999 Sybex Inc., one of the country's leading publishers of video and computer game strategy guides, announced today that it will publish an officially licensed " novelization" of Nintendo's best-selling Game Boy title, Poké mon™ . Video game expert Jason R. Rich has been tapped to write the book. " Very f games have created a world wide phenomenon like Poké mon, " said Rich. "