__WIKIA_BANNER__ "It's the Hottest Game in Town---and Someone's Sure to Get Zapped!" — Tagline of the 1991 Minstrel Books edition Attack of the Video Villains is the 106th book in The Hardy Boys series, and the 47th volume in The Hardy Boys Digest series . It was published in February 1991 by Minstrel Books (an imprint of Simon & Schuster), and produced by Mega-Books of New York, Inc.