Hello. I have done several consol game such as, guess my number, hangman, word jumble, and blackjack. i feel that i should be able to move past consol and do some with graphics, could someone point me out to some books or guids to start making say a pong game or tetris.

I'm going to assume that youve done these console games in C/C++. If so I'd suggest using SDL to get some simple graphics on the screen. If so try this out http://cone3d.gamedev.net/cgi-bin/index.pl?page=tutorials/gfxsdl/index

The tutorials there are a bit complex but if your quick you should be able to pickup on what the important parts are. IIRC they are basically written in C so if your used to C++ features like cout and std::string then you might be a bit lost with the string/io code, but there is still enough information in the tutorials to get you started (so long as you have a decent handle on C++)

AIM SN is caecus18 if you have any questions.

-Charles

EDIT: If your using MSVC then here is a quick tutorial on getting up and running with SDL.

http://pgdc.purdue.org/sdltutorial/sdl_setup.html

Allegro is a good option too.