Online game collectors, aspiring gaming historians, and people with who’ve a particular place of their hearts for Nintendo’s Game Boy ought to check out Amazon’s deal on this complete encyclopedia. Aptly titled The Game Boy Encyclopedia, the 320-page hardcover e book options all 1,100-plus video games for the unique Game Boy and GBC that launched within the West. Amazon’s low cost drops the worth of the $43 reference e book to solely $26, which is the perfect deal we have seen up to now.
For those who like studying about main moments within the historical past of video video games, we might additionally extremely suggest studying The History of the Game Boy, which lastly obtained an English translation final 12 months.
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Written by veteran video game journalist Chris Scullion, The Game Boy Encyclopedia looks at every game released in the West for both the Game Boy (~580 games) and its 1998 successor, the Game Boy Color (~560 games), which tallies up to around 1,150 games total. Inside the book, each game is covered with screenshots and trivia factoids, resulting in a comprehensive, though unofficial, look at the system over its long and storied run.
If you’re looking for some more gaming history, you can check out Scullion’s other books on other influential video game consoles and their libraries. You can complement the GameBoy book with the NES, SNES, and N64 Encyclopedias. The SNES e book 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 e book on the Sega Genesis. There’s additionally a Dreamcast Encyclopedia that covers over 600 video games from Sega’s final dwelling console.
The Video Game Encyclopedia Collection
- The Sega Genesis Encyclopedia
- The Sega Dreamcast Encyclopedia
- The NES Encyclopedia
- The SNES Encyclopedia
- The N64 Encyclopedia
- The GameBoy Encyclopedia
The Historical past of Nintendo Books
The aforementioned e book The History of the Game Boy is the ultimate entry in a four-part investigative e book 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 will get the Game Boy-focused one in addition to The History of the Famicom/NES, which obtained an English translation final 12 months, too.
Each books are deeply researched and primarily based on many hours of interviews Gorges carried out with builders who labored at Nintendo earlier than and through the lifecycles of the Nintendo Leisure System and Game Boy household of techniques.
Bitmap Books additionally has an excellent choice of reads devoted to basic video video games and fashionable masterpieces. Amazon just lately 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 Decades of Video Game Horror for $42. Followers of Beat-’em-up video games can take a look at Go Straight: The Ultimate Guide to Side-Scrolling Beat-‘Em-Ups for $43.75.
Bitmap has additionally revealed books on retro consoles, the beautiful field artwork of video video games, and extra. These are superbly designed books that should be each academic and showpieces in your assortment, and every launch is usually a chunky learn that goes into exhaustive element on its material.
Notice: Costs are likely to shift dramatically on Bitmap’s books and the entire titles listed under have bought out quite a few occasions over time.