Online game collectors, aspiring gaming historians, and people with who’ve a particular place of their hearts for Nintendo’s Recreation Boy ought to try Amazon’s deal on this complete encyclopedia. Aptly titled The Recreation Boy Encyclopedia, the 320-page hardcover guide options all 1,100-plus video games for the unique Recreation Boy and GBC that launched within the West. Amazon’s low cost drops the value of the $43 reference guide to solely $26, which is the very best deal we have seen to this point.
If you happen to like studying about main moments within the historical past of video video games, we would additionally extremely suggest studying The Historical past of the Recreation Boy, which lastly acquired an English translation final 12 months.
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Written by veteran online game journalist Chris Scullion, The Recreation Boy Encyclopedia seems to be at each sport launched within the West for each the Recreation Boy (~580 video games) and its 1998 successor, the Recreation Boy Shade (~560 video games), which tallies as much as round 1,150 video games complete. Contained in the guide, every sport is roofed with screenshots and trivia factoids, leading to a complete, although unofficial, have a look at the system over its lengthy and storied run.
If you happen to’re searching for some extra gaming historical past, you possibly can try Scullion’s different books on different influential online game consoles and their libraries. You may complement the GameBoy guide with the NES, SNES, and N64 Encyclopedias. The SNES guide additionally contains part devoted to the Nintendo’s largest flop, the Digital Boy, and its small 22-game library. All three books can be found now in hardcover and paperback.
On the Sega aspect, followers can return to the corporate’s 16-bit period with this guide on the Sega Genesis. There’s additionally a Dreamcast Encyclopedia that covers over 600 video games from Sega’s final residence console.
The Video Recreation Encyclopedia Collection
The Sega Genesis EncyclopediaThe Sega Dreamcast EncyclopediaThe NES EncyclopediaThe SNES EncyclopediaThe N64 Encyclopedia The GameBoy Encyclopedia
The Historical past of Nintendo Books
The aforementioned guide The Historical past of the Recreation Boy is the ultimate entry in a four-part investigative guide collection written by journalist Florent Gorges. Sadly, the primary two books within the collection have been out of print for a very long time, however you may get the Recreation Boy-focused one in addition to The Historical past of the Famicom/NES, which acquired an English translation final 12 months, too.
Each books are deeply researched and primarily based on many hours of interviews Gorges performed with builders who labored at Nintendo earlier than and in the course of the lifecycles of the Nintendo Leisure System and Recreation Boy household of techniques.
Bitmap Books additionally has an excellent collection of reads devoted to traditional video video games and trendy masterpieces. Amazon not too long ago restocked the writer’s 664-page tome that takes a deep dive into the horror style. You may get the hardcover version of From Ants to Zombies: Six Many years of Video Recreation Horror for $42. Followers of Beat-’em-up video games can try Go Straight: The Final Information to Facet-Scrolling Beat-‘Em-Ups for $43.75.
Bitmap has additionally printed books on retro consoles, the beautiful field artwork of video video games, and extra. These are fantastically designed books that are supposed to be each academic and showpieces in your assortment, and every launch is usually a chunky learn that goes into exhaustive element on its material.
Be aware: Costs are likely to shift dramatically on Bitmap’s books and all the titles listed beneath have bought out quite a few occasions through the years.
