Please support Game Informer. Print magazine subscriptions are less than $2 per issue
Bitmap Books Set To Release An NES Visual Compendium Next Year
With 10 days left of its successful Kickstarter campaign, raising over $200,000 with goal of $36,733, Bitmap Books is expecting to release an unofficial visual compendium based around the Nintendo Entertainment System sometime next year.
After reaching many of its stretch goals, the book is now over 400 pages long, with eight gatefold pages, and a forward by ex-Rare developer Kevin Bayliss, who is now working on Yooka-Laylee. No specific release date for the book is given, but its Kickstarter page notes an expected launch of January 2017. Bitmap's campaign will be running until July 1. You can get a glimpse of several of the book's pages in the gallery below.
Bitmap Books has released similar books for consoles like the Commodore 64, the Commodore Amiga, and the Siclaire ZX Spectrum. We recently noted this book in our Kickstarters to watch.
[Source: Bitmap Books on Kickstarter]
I’d like to ask you to support Game Informer’s continued coverage of games with a subscription. For less than two dollars per issue, we mail you a full year of 10 print magazines, each with cover stories and preview features filled with exclusive details about the most exciting upcoming games. We profile and interview game creators. We look back on the rich history of gaming, and we celebrate what’s next.
Here on the website, we offer much of our content for free, including game reviews, daily news, videos, event coverage, and more – all with minimal ads.
We do so with a small editorial team, alongside contributing paid writers from around the world – over 65 individuals from 9 countries around the world, just in the last couple of years.
It’s not possible without support.
In a time when game makers and games coverage have faced hard struggles and layoffs, the future of this 30+ year magazine and community is at risk. Our new standalone magazine subscription is the number one way you can keep us alive – and we believe you’ll get a pretty fantastic gaming magazine in your mailbox every few weeks for your trouble.
Thank you.
