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Video Game Maps: NES & Famicom
Do you have what it takes to navigate through the Lost Woods? Are you brave enough to battle the evil that awaits you in Dracula’s castle? What mysteries will you discover on the road to rescue Super Joe? Only you can chart the path to victory!
Video Game Maps: NES & Famicom features maps from 250+ games and is beautifully printed in full-color across 346 pages. It’s a celebration of NES maps as seen in mags, manuals, posters, ads, guides, more.
Video Game Maps: NES & Famicom features maps from 250+ games and is beautifully printed in full-color across 346 pages. It’s a celebration of NES maps as seen in mags, manuals, posters, ads, guides, more.
346 pages, Paperback
Published April 19, 2022
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Brian Riggsbee
6 books2 followersBrian Riggsbee is a former game developer and the owner of Retro Game Books, LLC. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and boy.
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January 27, 2025
This is not a game guide, as we had in the days of yore. Rather it treats game maps as art objects, seeing in them an intrinsic beauty beyond their basic utility as guides to navigation.
For the most part this approach works well, and there's a nice mix of official maps, promotional images, magazine guides, modern fanart, and even a handful of -- best of all to this haggard gamer -- player maps, drawn and annotated during actual play.
One could quibble over the lack of detail; yes, this is more about the maps as art objects, but still, it would be nice to get a closer look at some of them. Some of the inclusions are a bit baffling too; the Paperboy "map" for example, is of zero practical use and has little aesthetic value.
A huge coffee table style artbook would have been better, but for the most part this is a nice idea done mostly well.
For the most part this approach works well, and there's a nice mix of official maps, promotional images, magazine guides, modern fanart, and even a handful of -- best of all to this haggard gamer -- player maps, drawn and annotated during actual play.
One could quibble over the lack of detail; yes, this is more about the maps as art objects, but still, it would be nice to get a closer look at some of them. Some of the inclusions are a bit baffling too; the Paperboy "map" for example, is of zero practical use and has little aesthetic value.
A huge coffee table style artbook would have been better, but for the most part this is a nice idea done mostly well.
December 29, 2024
A lot of fun and definitely something to pour over, but the format is unfortunately small. The general maps look great, but smaller images and *especially* the maps of individual screens (e.g. Zelda dungeons, Ninja Gaiden levels) are simply too small to see. Nor is there much commentary, which is a pity. Still, it's loads of fun to see some of these maps bound together.
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