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Post by derboo on Nov 25, 2011 16:08:15 GMT -5
www.hardcoregaming101.net/vgbooks/vgbooks.htmThere hadn't been much of a reaction when this was originally posted (though it seems we forgot to put it on facebook), but I'd like to gauge some opinions on the whole thing. Have you read some of those reviews? Do you find them interesting, useful and/or entertaining? Would you check it out again when it was expanded in the future? Would you like to see anything changed about it?
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Post by dire51 on Nov 25, 2011 18:01:04 GMT -5
I think you guys are on the right track with this. Many of these books have been lost to time and it's nice to see them highlighted again. I'm definitely interested in reading some more reviews.
Are there plans to do any more reviews? Would books like Rob O'Hara's Commodork and Invading Spaces (and maybe even my own Memoirs of a Virtual Caveman) be covered?
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Post by KeeperBvK on Nov 26, 2011 3:40:04 GMT -5
Not trying to discourage anyone here or comment on the quality, but since you're asking for opinions, I'll say this: I - personally - wasn't all that interested in the article and probably won't be in the future either. I merely skimmed a few of the texts and then moved on, sorry. I'm sure that others will get more out of the article, but I wouldn't need any further updates.
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Post by mpx on Nov 26, 2011 6:24:12 GMT -5
Its great that you add this to HG101  Its interesting to see this reviews |
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Post by derboo on Nov 28, 2011 4:35:36 GMT -5
Are there plans to do any more reviews? Would books like Rob O'Hara's Commodork and Invading Spaces (and maybe even my own Memoirs of a Virtual Caveman) be covered? It's possible, although personally I'm more into history & reference books, so that kind of stuff would depend on other writers chipping in. I guess we could also take submissions if someone wants to recommend (or not) something. |
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Post by docmarionum1 on Nov 28, 2011 20:29:07 GMT -5
I'd definitely like to see more books featured; I always love to find out about new video game history books. And if you're looking for help (and time permitting) I could do write-ups for books such as Masters of Doom, Game Over, The History of Nintendo Volume 1, etc.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2011 20:35:30 GMT -5
I'm sure I have the old paperback copies of Castlevania II and Wizards and Warriors by F.X. Nine somewhere around the house...
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Post by derboo on Nov 29, 2011 0:31:07 GMT -5
I'd definitely like to see more books featured; I always love to find out about new video game history books. And if you're looking for help (and time permitting) I could do write-ups for books such as Masters of Doom, Game Over, The History of Nintendo Volume 1, etc. I'm doing Game Over, and Discoalucard mentioned Masters of Doom, but I don't know if he's still planning to write on it. The History of Nintendo should be good to go, though. I'm sure I have the old paperback copies of Castlevania II and Wizards and Warriors by F.X. Nine somewhere around the house... Hey, I completely forgot about those, even though I once skimped through the Ninja Gaiden one while writing that article. The only things I want to shy away from are artbooks and guidebooks, except maybe for some very special cases, cause they would blow the scope through the roof. |
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Post by dire51 on Nov 29, 2011 14:26:21 GMT -5
It's possible, although personally I'm more into history & reference books, so that kind of stuff would depend on other writers chipping in. Hmmm. Well, technically Commodork and MoaVC are history books - both are collections of stories about "growing up gaming" - and Invading Spaces is an intro to arcade cabinet collecting for beginners, so I guess it'd qualify as a reference book. |
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Post by Sketcz-1000 on Dec 4, 2011 3:56:50 GMT -5
I'm sure I have the old paperback copies of Castlevania II and Wizards and Warriors by F.X. Nine somewhere around the house... I have the Metal Gear one, or I did, think I gave it to someone. It was spectacularly awful - and weird. The guy obviously played the game to get a feel, but he'd reach an area like the electrified floor (I think he mistook it for heated flooring) and, rather than use remote missiles to blow it up, made Snake eat rations to get across. It's just so weird, because although you can technically do that in the game, it's really forced in the more real-life setting of the book, and furthermore there's no need - remote missiles for the win. Dialogue was great, it was like: "I started to eat the rations, and I don't know how or why, but somehow they just worked, and I had the strength to get through the heated tiles. I kept eating the rations and could somehow do it!" |
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Post by derboo on Apr 18, 2012 11:32:53 GMT -5
I'm currently working on the review for Game Over. I'm reviewing the first edition, cause that's the only one I own, but I should probably include whether or not some of the glaring detail errors were corrected in the "press start to continue" edition from 1999).
If anyone with that edition has the time to check, here are the ones I made notes of:
In chapter 3: I, Mario (page 43 in my edition) it is mentioned that one of the R&D teams developed 8 megabyte cartridges for the famicom.
In chapter 4: Inside the mother brain (page 65 in my edition) it's told about the 1984-released The Black Onyx that "Rogers sold 100,000 copies in 1980"
In the same chapter (page 69 here) Enix is called "a start-up formed specifically to create Nintendo games".
Page 73 on Pac-Man: "Nakamura awarded the engineer who came up with the game a piddling $3,500. Disgusted, the man left the video-game business."
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Post by Sac (a.k.a Icaras) on Apr 19, 2012 0:03:53 GMT -5
I wouldn't mind seeing an article on those old nintendo story books you guys refered to.
I recall way back when, when I was in primary school, we used to have a monthly book order catalogue. I can recall the world of power books and eyeying them off and dropping alot of hints to my mum to get them. She never did. .
I'm fairly sure (Espeically with the dialogue snippets provided, haha) that I'd hate them if I read them today...then again, I did quite enjoy the DOOM novelisations so who knows?
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Post by derboo on Jan 28, 2013 7:33:17 GMT -5
I just noticed the Videogame Style Guide is freely available as a PDF. You can grab it at the offiial site: www.gamestyleguide.com/ |
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Post by Super Orbus on Jan 31, 2013 18:43:18 GMT -5
I remember I had a Mega Man 2 novelization way back when. No idea where it is now though.
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Post by lightingman on Jan 31, 2013 20:58:52 GMT -5
I own the classic how to win at pac-man book.
As well as the classic "How to win at THE videogames". That covers really old games that were around the time of williams and atari.
Also I own the unofficial nes cheats guide number 3. It's alrgiht, but most of the guides are useless beyond mario 3 and contra 2
Also novelas I own the adaptations of RE1 and 2 I need to finish REremake and the RE1 novel.
I haven't played RE2. Yet the RE2 novel is really good.
There's a few not so canon extra novels that expand the story a bit. Yet compared to shit like the Halo Novels the RE novels are amazing.
Also if you want a good novel version of an anime track down the Macross saga Robotech books. They really flesh out the characters in it.
What are some good video game novels?
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