You know that cool Famicom history book by the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography? Well, I got my copy yesterday and inside of it there's a webpage address. If you go there, you can find these books for $34 shipped, which is a pretty good price, considering I just paid $50 shipped for mine. For those of you who might be interested, the link is below. You have to click on "Amazon" and then create an account (assuming you don't have one). If you pick the slower shipping, the book will cost only $34 shipped. With the faster shipping, it's something like $46. I went through the process all the way to the "Place Order" button.
HERE (http://www.ohtabooks.com/view/bookinfo.cgi?isbn=4872338030)
Wow, good find. Everyone should order up, totally worth 34 bucks!
You tell me this after I make purchases...UGH!
Very cool!
JC, what are the contents of this amazing book?
Are there interviews with Nintendo of Japan masterminds
like Gunpei Yokoi, Miyamoto etc?
I'm considering to buy this one before Xmas!
You should buy it! It's got every game officially released: a photo, the name, the release date, the original price, and the publisher. It's also got interviews with Shigeru Miyamoto, Shigesato Itoi, Yuji Horii, Kouichi Nakamura. Then it's got a short articles on some of the game, the good and the bad, plus other articles, like the development of baseball through the different gaming consoles. It's really worth it, but the English translations it uses aren't perfect; for instance, you'll find errors in some of the games' names.
Hmmmm...
Cool! :D
My main motivation is the word of the Masters behind the games!
Even because I think it is hard to any publication to beat the Famicomplete
in terms of Famicom games listing.
Unperfect translation?
I really don't care, ;D!!!
My own English is way too poor!!!
Quote from: Profeta Yoshitake on October 30, 2006, 05:46:17 am
like Gunpei Yokoi
You'd have no luck with them getting an interview of him. He sadly died in 1997 in a car accident. :(
Quote from: Profeta Yoshitake on October 30, 2006, 05:46:17 am
Very cool!
JC, what are the contents of this amazing book?
Are there interviews with Nintendo of Japan masterminds
like Gunpei Yokoi, Miyamoto etc?
I'm considering to buy this one before Xmas!
Hey José Yoshitake,
This is the SAME book you saw here at my house months ago, with your own eyes and hands!
Are you getting elder? Forgetting basic facts that happen in your daily life?
(c:
Cheers, man!
Cosme.
Quote from: Cospefogo on October 31, 2006, 11:09:04 am
Quote from: Profeta Yoshitake on October 30, 2006, 05:46:17 am
Very cool!
JC, what are the contents of this amazing book?
Are there interviews with Nintendo of Japan masterminds
like Gunpei Yokoi, Miyamoto etc?
I'm considering to buy this one before Xmas!
Hey José Yoshitake,
This is the SAME book you saw here at my house months ago, with your own eyes and hands!
Are you getting elder? Forgetting basic facts that happen in your daily life?
(c:
Cheers, man!
Cosme.
Hahuauahuuahu!!!
My brains are currently storing the memories precisely at the Dark Side of the Moon,
Sheppherd!! :D
Well, if this book is exactly the one my sacred hands blessed at Santa Maria, so be it!
I'm going to buy it!!!!
Awesome, it's by a museum! I don't really see the Smithsonian publishing a book on NES games anytime soon...
So, what's up with this other Famicomplete book now? How many of these kinds of books are there over in Japan?! Not being able to fully read Japanese is becoming more and more of a deficiency...
You can see several pics and a review HERE (http://disgruntleddesigner.com/chrisc/famicomplete.html)
and about the LEVEL-X book, more info here LINK (http://disgruntleddesigner.com/chrisc/levelxbook.html)
I went there! And I got a copy of that book too ;) I thought that will be full of this japanese crazy otakus over there but i saw a lot of "normal" guys and couples. There was a very big screen that anyone can play Xevious.
Awesome, man. It's cool that you were able to see that. Did they have any pictures at the exhibit that they did not put in the book?
I'm not able to get a book 'cause my location, it's there some copy in PDF or something, just to check em out ? :(
I was digging thru some boxes and found my Family Computer 1983-1994 history book.
It's got every single game in it. Quite a catalog! :o
http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-lu-77-2-49-en-15-famicom-70-ine-43-7y.html
I see Play Asia has one for Super Famicom, still for sale.
http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-lu-49-en-15-famicom-70-ind-43-7y.html
Damn I wish there was something similar in English. Would love to read all about the games that came out over there.
I have those 2 books and they're great.
Highly recommended.
Quote from: Lorfarius on November 17, 2008, 07:42:46 am
Damn I wish there was something similar in English. Would love to read all about the games that came out over there.
The Famicom book is both Japanese/English.
They are out of stock....man!
Quote from: Romeo on November 17, 2008, 08:41:07 am
Quote from: Lorfarius on November 17, 2008, 07:42:46 am
Damn I wish there was something similar in English. Would love to read all about the games that came out over there.
The Famicom book is both Japanese/English.
Fantastic I'll have to keep an eye out for it then ;D
Quote from: Romeo on November 17, 2008, 08:41:07 am
Quote from: Lorfarius on November 17, 2008, 07:42:46 am
Damn I wish there was something similar in English. Would love to read all about the games that came out over there.
The Famicom book is both Japanese/English.
Well, the interviews are in English. The mini-reviews they have for some of the individual games are classic Engrish.
(also, even though the games' individual entries list the titles in both Japanese and English, the index in the back of the book is Japanese only)
There's enough English to enjoy this book I am sure.
And the cool photos really make up for the English that's not there. :)
It's for sure the best book about the Famicom out there. Nearly every Famicom game is pictured, there are page write ups about the best and most influential games, smaller ones for others, and many have none at all. There are also some great articles and interviews with designers and such including Shigeru. The English is understandable, so it doesn't really make any difference except maybe be even more enjoyable :D you still get all the info. i highly recommend finding!
Sorry to bump this old thread but I recently obtained a copy of this fantastic book (Family Computer 1983-1994). It's a very interesting read and as others before me I really recommend to pick it up if you find one. One thing I noticed, though: is it possible that the last game released for the famicom (Adventure Island IV) is missing in the book? I couldn't find it....
It's not listed on page 151 along with the other final releases as you'd expect it to be, but that's because it's covered in more detail earlier in page 121.
Thanks! How could I miss that? ::)
Hecka-bump! :pow:
Was researching some Shougi games for the games list and came across an error in this book. It properly has three entries for the Tanigawa Kouji no Shougi Shinan II, but the images show all three of them as being disk system games. Two of them were disks, and one was a cartridge!
Nice find. You sure know your stuff.
Not really. There were issues with our game list, so I went researching. I wouldn't have known any better if the issues weren't pointed out.
Okay, maybe I know some stuff, but I didn't know this :P