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Hurrah! French outfit Pix’n Love Publishing is translating its book on Gunpei Yokoi, creator of the Game Boy, the directional pad, the Game & Watch, and many other Nintendo innovations. It’s titled Gunpei Yokoi: Life And Philosophy Of Nintendo’s ‘God Of Toys’.
I believe this is the same book as the inventor’s Yokoi Gunpei Game House autobiography (co-authored by Takefumi Makino, who is also credited as the writer on the Pix’n Love listing), but I could be wrong on that.
The book is slated to release in the first quarter of 2012 for £24.99 ($40). Pix’n Love also has two other English translation projects on the way early next year for The History of Nintendo - Vol.2 and The History of Mario.
Buy: Nintendo Magic
See also: More Gunpei Yokoi posts
[Thanks, Olivia! Image via moossye]
tags / gunpei yokoi / pixn love / book / gaming / imports / ecThe Monster From The ’80s, a cute, pixelart-illustrated children’s book about “monsters, skates, video games, friendship,” and the ’80s from Andrea Interguglielmi.
Formerly a technical artist at Lionhead, Interguglielmi created this 32-page book as a way for you to “show your kids what it was like in the ’80s”. You can buy The Monster From the ’80s at Lulu for $15.90 and preview more pages at this Tumblr blog. As you might have noticed in the images above, there’s a Tiny cameo!
See also: Video game zines
tags / andrea interguglielmi / book / the monster from the 80s / tiny
Fighting Fantasy: The Warlock of Firetop Mountain book.
Along with the upcoming Fighting Fantasy DS game, Icon put out another edition of the original Warlock of Firetop Mountain gamebook with a new cover by Martin McKenna.
If you put in a preorder for the DS release at GameStop (in-store or online), you can get a copy of the book for free, which is a pretty neat promotion for a few reasons:
- It will keep your attention much longer than most of the random and useless tchotchkes (e.g. LKS’s stress doll) that publishers give away as reservation gifts.
- This is the only way to buy the book in the U.S.
- If you find that you enjoy the Fighting Fantasy universe and premise much more than the actual game, you can read and play the book instead.
I recently figured out why I’m so interested in this game, and it’s nothing short of imbecilic: I enjoy loot with unique properties and a back-story. It’s a penchant I picked during my Diablo days, and it’s the only excuse I can come up with for why I played Puzzle Quest to completion.
I’ve seen one screenshot that indicates Fighting Fantasy has those alluring items, and I hope that example isn’t an exception. I scoured every frame of the latest trailer Aspyr put out for Fighting Fantasy, but couldn’t find another instance:
See also: Fighting Fantasy trailer
tags / steven jackson / fighting fantasy / the warlock of firetop mountain / book / preorders / gamestop / aspyr / icon / martin mckenna / ec
Multiple: Option is the go-to guy when it comes to odd ports for the DS, having brought over adventure games, visual novels, and even gamebooks to the handheld.
His latest homebrew project adapts Jack Harris and Kim Ellis’ 1989 children’s book The Legend of Zelda: Molblin’s Magic Spear, adding music from Ocarina of Time and a narrator. You can watch the full story (top screen only, text is on the bottom screen) with narration below:
Notice the inconsistency with Link’s sword-hand. Odd! Also, it’s a shame the book didn’t feature Katsuya Terada’s art from the Official Nintendo Player’s Guides.
[Via DCEmu]
tags / homebrew / multiple option / jack harris / the legend of zelda / molblin's magic spear / book / ec
Haggle Man 3 maps! Equipment descriptions for Guadia Quest and Guadia Quest Saga! Fact files for all of Game Center CX and GCCX2’s games! Famitsu packed 160 pages worth of cheats, maps, and charts into its 2-in-1 “Perfect Guide” for the GCCX series.
Unfortunately, it’s all in Japanese, but Retronauts’ Ray Barnholt says the guide includes a “command-by-command walkthrough” for GCCX2’s detective adventure games, so that will help should you import the sequel — it’s not like GCCX2 is ever coming stateside anyway! :’o(
According to Barnholt, the book’s layout is “heavily influenced by retro game strategy guides”. Neat! You can buy a copy from Play-Asia for $28 ($11 shipping).
Since we have your attention with GCCX junk, enjoy this artwork by Cormorant, titled “Young Arino”:
The text translates as, “I want to go back to that time”.
Import: Game Center CX 2
Buy: Retro Game Challenge ($27.99, free s/h)
[Book photo via No Game No Life]
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