The success of last year's NES Classic Edition clearly took Nintendo by surprise. The company was completely incapable of meeting demand, leaving many people unable to buy what became the must-have gift of the holiday season. Now Nintendo has given i...
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I used to be scared of the RPG genre. Growing up, I played plenty of video games like any other kid, but I stuck to stuff I could pick up and put down. Mario, GoldenEye, Doom. I lacked the dedication, the loyalty and the skill to tackle an intimidati...
iam8bit recently concluded Postcards from Space, an art exhibition featuring postcards for fictional locations from books, comics, video games, toys and sci-fi and fantasy shows and movies. Fortunately those of us who didn’t make it to the exhibit can get copies of the postcards from iam8bit’s online store.
Each of the 39 postcards measures 6″x 4″ and has imagery from a different artist. You can buy copies of the postcards from iam8bit for $5 (USD) each. Here are a few more samples from the exhibit:
The exhibit also includes the Space Worlds Map, a 36″x 24″ print that has over 70 fictional worlds. It was made by Edison Yan, the artist behind the Videogames World Map. Now if you’ll excuse me I’m going to go and stare at that Dragon Ball Z postcard for the rest of the day.
… and if you didn’t get that reference, this is probably not for you. Video game merchandise store Fangamer is raising funds on Kickstarter for You Are Now EarthBound, a collection of artworks made by and for EarthBound fans. And yes, it will have scratch-n-sniff cards.
You Are Now EarthBound has four main parts. The first is a handbook for the game, which will be presented as a travel guide to Eagleland. It will be at least 250 pages long and will be filled with trivia, fan-made illustrations and the aforementioned scratch-n-sniff cards.
Then there’s the Psychokinetic album, which is filled with covers of songs from the EarthBound/Mother series.
There’s also a similarly titled fanzine filled with more fan-made illustrations and writing. You can preview the magazine’s content here.
Finally, there’s EarthBound, USA, a documentary about a group of fans who helped make the game and the series popular online.
Withdraw from the nearest ATM then pledge at least $128 (USD) on Kickstarter if you want to get the whole You Are Now EarthBound collection. You’ll also get a Nessbot flash drive for your support. If you can pledge at least $256 Fangamer will also give you a yellow backpack filled with Eagleland trinkets in addition to the collection. You can also get digital copies of the collection on lower reward tiers. And in case you didn’t know, you can get EarthBound on the Wii U via the Nintendo eShop.
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The success of last year's NES Classic Edition clearly took Nintendo by surprise. The company was completely incapable of meeting demand, leaving many people unable to buy what became the must-have gift of the holiday season. Now Nintendo has given i...
I used to be scared of the RPG genre. Growing up, I played plenty of video games like any other kid, but I stuck to stuff I could pick up and put down. Mario, GoldenEye, Doom. I lacked the dedication, the loyalty and the skill to tackle an intimidati...
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