books about Famicom

[daynum]

I've seen that book before but I assumed it would be all Japanese. Now I know it's also in English I defintely want one!

[manuel]

I also thought it was only Japanese and was a bit surprised when it arrived.
It's definitely worth the money. At least for a collector.

[Doc]

Not $31+ though...There's another only Japanese book on their that I'm winning, at least.

[vealchop]

I have that book. I paid 40 bucks for it like two years ago. I would snatch this up if you could, there's not that many out there as it was made to go along with an exhibit at a photography museum in Japan at the time. The interviews in there are really great and cover a lot of topics, the back has a bunch of accessories for the famicom but theyre not photographed or labeled as good as the rest of the book. The one on ebay might be missing the blue 2nd dust jacket that came with mine though.

There another book that covers all the games as well thats totally in japanese but has screenshots from the games as well. The cover is designed like a famicom. I think these are easier to find but are a lot more money for some reason.

[Doc]

Yeah, I was wondering on accessory coverage in that book. Thanks on that!

I STILL might bid on it...but I'll only go has high as $35...

[vealchop]

If you're interested in Nintendo history, Steven Kent's "Game Over" is a fantastic book that covers the entire history of Nintendo and even touches on some other systems. Chock full of info, here's a link:

http://www.amazon.com/Game-Over-Press-Start-/dp/0966961706/sr=8-1/qid=1156875754/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-6792493-2862337?ie=UTF8

[Doc]

Yeah, I've been watching one of those on eBay for awhile. Does it have info on the Famicom?

[vealchop]

Yeah it focuses primarily on the company itself which is japanese, but does a great job covering both when the company opened up an american branch. If you're a fan of nintendo/famicom its a MUST read.

[Doc]

Alright, I'll look for it.

[manuel]

"Game Over" is surely worth the money. Get it, it's a nice read.

Yesterday I took photos of two other Famicom books I have. I still have to resize those and up them to imageshack. Then I'll post them here.

[Doc]

Alright, looking forward! Are they both Japanese only?

[manuel]

Japanese only.
Later.

[Toneman]

Power Up: How Japanese Video Games Changed The World

You can pick that up at Books A Million/B&N or Gamestop.

[Doc]

Alright, now THAT'S the book I'd like to have.

[manuel]

Power Up is good. Get it soon.

And here's another Japanese book on Famicom, as promised some posts above.

The title is "Fami Emulator Kanzen (=Perfect) Guide 2004". I bought it back then when I studied at Kyushu University in Fukuoka, Japan. I was so happy when I saw that book in the store. It really made my day.



The book comes with a CD. The CD contains some emulators (e.g. VirtuaNES version 0.92, NNNesterJ 0.23, FCE Ultra v0.98.9 and some more), some free roms (no official FC releases of course) and 5 minutes of video footage of the Classic Gaming Expo 2005. I could post the free roms somewhere if some people are interested.

Let's get to the most important part: The games. It contains release info and short reviews of "over 1200" games, they don't specify the exact number and I surely won't count them.



6 pages to get you an idea on how the book looks. The bigger titles get a whole page, the less important ones get only a few square inches. They all have info like release date, producer and release price.


A short article on Famiclones. Nice read.


And a special on video game ads (4 pages). That7s nice, too.
Another some pages are dedicated to the Classic Gaming Expo 2003.

The price was a cheap 1200Yen (10$).

So. What do you think about that?
Please stay tuned for yet another one to come soon.

edit: I made a rar file out of the freeroms folder on the CD. It contains some free roms (some of which you might already know) and is 1.16mb.
http://manuel.web.fc2.com/stuff/fcfr.rar