Cool Super Nintendo/Sega Genesis Bookazine
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After seeing it on Reddit and not being able to find it at the first store I tried I picked up this really cool Super Nintendo/Sega Genesis bookazine (essentially a single issue magazine). On one side it's about Super Nintendo and on the back it's Sega Genesis content. There are around 100 pages for each system. There's nothing revolutionary inside, but it's well done and I think was worth the $20 they charged for it. It'll look nice on my coffee table. Just passing this along in case you wanted one for yourself or to give as a gift to a gamer in your life.
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I'm surprised no one threw their two cents in about this. I bought a book similar to these online but it features the NES. I had no idea these existed, I might have to check them out. I was a Sega fanboy as a kid so I'm particularly interested in the Genesis one. Now I'm open to all platforms that have good games, no fanboyism anymore, lol.
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Care to share a link? I would love to get one of these (and can't find it on Reddit or Amazon...does it have an IBSN number?)
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@Dochartaigh I had to buy it in person at Barnes & Noble. I couldn't find it online. No ISBN that I can see, just the barcode that was pictured.
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@obsidianspider while looking for that book i found this book. i think i need this book. And i dont even own a single book
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/mobile/w/playing-with-power-garitt-rocha/1124124834?ean=9780744017779 -
@edmaul69 That looks interesting. But i would go for the hardcover one.
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@edmaul69 I highly recommend getting Ultimate Nintendo: Guide to the NES Library by Pat Contri. It's more expensive but significantly better.
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I was always a bit more attracted to the Megadrive and started to collect the Japanese cartridges.
I had something around 150 before I sold 2/3 of it before moving to Japan. I kept around 50 of them and this book here.ISBN4-87233-880-4
A catalog of all Japanese MD games ever released for SEGA’s 16 bit machines.
Also contains features and interviews with key developers.
There was this mini Genesis console included, something exclusive that was never sold separately I think.
The 2 tiny games are Virtua Fighter 2 and Comix Zone. Not sure why those but I know that Comix Zone cost an arm and a leg these days.65980 Yen!! ($580 USD)
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@FlyingTomahawk Any tips on learning Japanese? My main intent would be so I could play games in their original language, but it looks like it's quite a challenge with no easy way to go about it since it's an entirely different alphabet (and more than one!).
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Where should I start..... there is no easy way to learn it. Best would be to be here in Japan and be able to use what you learn.
Even after 10 years I am not able to read all of it. Once someone told me that to be able to read a newspaper in Japanese you must master at least 2000 different Kanji (Chinese look-alike letters). 2000!! and that is not all, crazy I tell you. Then there are Hiragana and Katakana letters which are used often in games or in game titles like メガドライブ which means Megadrive.
I guess you would start with Hiragana and Katakana first and then start with the easy Kanji letters.
For me as a foreigner it is very hard to remember or let alone write those Kanjis. It's like memorizing images/pictures and give them 2-3 different spellings. Yes, a Kanji has an On-yomi and a Kun-yomi, so the same Kanji letter can be read differently depending on it's used purpose. Let's take 大 (Dai), it can be read as "Dai" or "O" as in Osaka or Dai as in large. 大 中 小 = Large, Medium, Small....make sense? If not, then believe me you're not alone. ;)
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@FlyingTomahawk
You didn't answer the question though: can we fit a Pi Zero in the super-tiny Sega Genesis enclosed in that book? -
lol I must have missed that question...
...and no, it won't fit the Pi Zero is too big. :) -
@obsidianspider Lol, the only thing I can recommend is the app Babbel. But not sure if they have Japanese yet.
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