1UP/Retronauts’s Jeremy Parish and his team of writers published the third issue of GameSpite Quarterly, now available to purchase with three different editions, each boasting a different 8-bit hero — collect them all! (or don’t, if you prefer to spend your money sensibly)

Titled “The Encyclopedia of 8-Bit Heroes”, this issue profiles dozens of video game characters from the NES/SMS/GB/GBC etc. days, covering recognizable stars such as Samus and Tetris’s I Block, as well as obscure figures like the Cheetahmen and Parodius’s Takosuke.

The $16 standard edition features 280 pages of profiles, while the $12 budget edition has 160 pages, covering only “the most important of classic game heroes”. The 314-page hardcover deluxe version of GameSpite Quarterly Issue 3 is priced at an expensive $40, but it also promises eight extra characters, as well as articles on perfect rentals, noir titles, and Winter 09/10’s new releases.

You can read the issue’s Foreward and Table of Contents at the above link. For those of you interested in purchasing a copy as my Christmas gift (Hardcover Deluxe plz), feel free to use this Contact form to notify me, and I’ll send along an address you can ship the book to.

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