The History of Nintendo

The History of Nintendo
Author: Florent Gorges
Publisher: Pix'N Love Editions
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-11-20
Genre: Electronic games industry
ISBN: 9782918272151

This highly detailed publication delves into the rich and varied (and often forgotten) 120-year history of the world's leading video game company. For the very first time, Nintendo's historical product portfolio is catalogued in painstaking and loving detail, with over 500 card games, tabletop games, toys, electronic, and arcade games, all compiled into one superbly crafted book. This book details Nintendo's humble beginnings as a playing card manufacturer, charting progress through the entire range of toys and games, including such legendary products as Love Tester, Ten Billion, Ultra Hand, Custom Gunman, and hundreds more, progressing up to the first video arcade games, home consoles, and Game & Watch series.

Ultimate Nintendo

Ultimate Nintendo
Author: Pat Contri
Publisher:
Total Pages: 452
Release: 2019-10-19
Genre:
ISBN: 9780997328325

Ultimate Nintendo: Guide to the SNES Library is a thorough examination of the games from the beloved and influential Super Nintendo Entertainment System. This definitive resource contains information, screenshots, and reviews of all games released for Nintendo's 16-bit home video game console between 1991-1998. Read about hundreds of fun and memorable SNES titles like Super Mario World, Donkey Kong Country, Super Metroid, Mega Man X, Super Castlevania IV, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, and many more. This collection includes details for every SNES game: developer, publisher, release date, genre, special features, and more! Bonus sections are dedicated to promo cartridges and even games that were never released! So if you are a Nintendo or video game fan, dive in and learn about all the entertaining and interesting games in the impressive SNES library!- 800 SNES game reviews, including those released exclusively outside of North America- Promo, special, and test cartridges- A look at SNES games that were never released- Super Famicom spotlight highlighting titles released in Japan on the SNES sister console- A guide to notable SNES controllers and devices- Supplemental articles about the history of the SNES by game historians and internet personalitiesNote: this book is not authorized or endorsed by Nintendo. All registered trademarks, game art, and game screenshots used are copyright their respective holders and are utilized here under Fair Use.

Saved by the Alphas

Saved by the Alphas
Author: Jayce Carter
Publisher: Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD)
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2020-01-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1839433515

It'll take all three alphas to see to this omega's needs. After getting free from her abusive mate, Tracy wants nothing to do with another alpha. For omegas like her, getting involved with alphas isn't worth the risk. However, when an old business associate of her mate threatens her, she has no choice but to turn to Sam. The detective is handsome and charming, but Tracy won't let herself fall for that again. Five years have passed since Sam fell out of contact with his best friends, Mason and Dylan, but with Tracy in danger, he has to call in both alphas, despite the bad blood between them. Some rifts are hard to mend, and the three face more fractures when they find themselves drawn by the same omega yet again. Tracy has no idea how to deal with the three alphas, and even as the life they offer tempts her, she resists. They all bear the scars of romance-gone-bad, and the risk of giving in seems too costly. As Tracy and the alphas struggle to stay one step ahead of the men after her and the alphas work to put a broken friendship back together, they all have to fight to move forward. Can they put the past to rest or will it bury them all?

Murgunstrumm & Others

Murgunstrumm & Others
Author: Hugh B. Cave
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Total Pages: 490
Release: 2004-04-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0809500698

"Murgunstrumm & Others" is a huge retrospective collection of the best horror and weird fantasy stories by master Hugh B. Cave. Originally published in the pulp magazines of the 1930s-1950s, this collection includes stories that originally appeared in the magazines "Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror," "Weird Tales," "Spicy Mystery Stories," "Ghost Stories," "Thrilling Mysteries," "Black Book Detective Magazine," "Argosy," "Adventure," "Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine" and "Whispers."

Mario Always Knows Best

Mario Always Knows Best
Author: Mario Publishing
Publisher:
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2020-03-23
Genre:
ISBN:

This 120-page Mario Journal features: 120 wide-ruled lined pages 6 x 9 inches in size - big enough for your daily writings and also small enough to take with you smooth white-color paper, perfect for ink, gel pens, pencils or even colored pencils a black matte-finish cover for an elegant, professional look and feel This (Mario Always Knows Best) journal can be used for writing poetry, jotting down your brilliant ideas, recording your accomplishments and much more. Use it as a diary or gratitude journal, a travel journal or to record your food intake or progress toward your fitness and life goals. The simple lined pages allow you to use it however you wish. Our journals to write in offer a wide variety of journals, so keep one by your bedside as a dream journal, one in your car to record mileage and expenses, one by your computer for login names and passwords, and one in your purse or backpack to jot down random thoughts and inspirations throughout the day. Paper journals never need to be charged and of course no batteries are required! You only need your thoughts and dreams and something to write with. This Mario journal makes a wonderful present, so put a smile on someone's face today!

The Art of Southern Charm

The Art of Southern Charm
Author: Patricia Altschul
Publisher: Diversion Books
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2017-04-18
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1682308340

The surprise breakout star of Bravo’s hit reality show, Southern Charm, introduces an essential lifestyle guide as refreshing and fun as a gin martini. “Patricia on #SouthernCharm, like lookin’ in the damn mirror. Cheers queen.”—Lady Gaga Fan-favorite Bravolebrity Patricia Altschul from the primetime show Southern Charm finally brings fans her eagerly anticipated opus on etiquette and living a glamorous Southern lifestyle. Patricia provides advice on every situation, from hosting a memorable cocktail party, to decoding the dress code for any event, to handling a drunken boor at the dinner table, to delivering the perfectly phrased insult—like her now iconic “shameless strumpet.” The Art of Southern Charm takes readers inside the world of Charleston’s most captivating grande dame, who (with Michael the Butler) offers a blueblood’s blueprint for curating and celebrating life at its best. “Some viewers might watch the Bravo reality show Southern Charm to witness the escapades of Charleston’s young elite, but at T&C we watch just to see Patricia Altschul in action . . . She’s the show’s resident expert in decorum, manners, and entertaining.”—Emily Selter, Town & Country “Since Southern Charm premiered in 2014, Mrs. Altschul, 78, has emerged as a tart-tongued matriarch doing the work of a Greek chorus for a cast in which half the members can barely figure out how to get out of bed before noon (and once there, how to proceed without a beer) . . . Some of Mrs. Altschul’s points of view may seem out of touch . . . But her commentary can also be incisive and funny, sparking roundups of her zingers across the internet.”—The New York Times

Reverse Design

Reverse Design
Author: Patrick Holleman
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2018
Genre: Super Mario Bros. (Game)
ISBN: 9781138323254

The Reverse Design series looks at all of the design decisions that went into classic video games. This is the third installment in the Reverse Design series, looking at Super Mario World. Written in a readable format, it is broken down into ten sections examining some of the most important topics to the game: 1. The specific level design patterns within Super Mario World that make it such a successful and classic game; 2. Evolutions in the smallest mechanics of the Mario games that give the player more control and allow the designers to more precisely control the level of difficulty in each level; 3. The overall organization of levels into four "skill themes" which are derived from pillars of the game's design--back cover.

Super Mario

Super Mario
Author: Jeff Ryan
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2012-09-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1591845637

The definitive story of the rise of Nintendo. In 1981, Nintendo of America was a one-year-old business already on the brink of failure. Its president, Mino Arakawa, was stuck with two thousand unsold arcade cabinets for a dud of a game (Radar Scope). So he hatched a plan. Back in Japan, a boyish, shaggy-haired staff artist named Shigeru Miyamoto designed a new game for the unsold cabinets featur­ing an angry gorilla and a small jumping man. Donkey Kong brought in $180 million in its first year alone and launched the career of a short, chubby plumber named Mario. Since then, Mario has starred in over two hundred games, gen­erating profits in the billions. He is more recognizable than Mickey Mouse, yet he’s little more than a mustache in bib overalls. How did a mere smear of pixels gain such huge popularity? Super Mario tells the story behind the Nintendo games millions of us grew up with, explaining how a Japanese trading card company rose to dominate the fiercely competitive video-game industry.

Mario

Mario
Author: Anthony Iacone
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2018-05-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1641381086

Mario Muscella is a fictional character. His lifestyle is taken from many different experiences of the author and many others whom he has encountered over the years. In this story, Mario feels that he has to be accepted by his peers by doing everything that satisfies them even though he usually hates doing those things. Throughout most of his life, he is a follower, although he wants to break loose and become a leader. Mario is a child from the beginning, who never really grows up. He just gets older, weaker, and beaten down by the many pitfalls of his sorry life. He is a second generation Italian American growing up in an ethnic neighborhood in South Philadelphia. He has some success along the way, and at times, he accumulates some wealth and good fortune. Those components only seem to last for a few brief moments. Each time, he gets hit over the head with a large mallet, which brings him back to reality. He decides to go far away to school, and he finally meets a girl who he seems to love. As soon as he hits the high point of this romance, she does a complete 180 and breaks his heart. He never recovers from that dismal moment, which takes him down another rocky road. He is pushed into an unhappy marriage by his own hand. All during this time, he longs for his lost sweetheart, but he never cheats on his wife. Later on, his wife decides to betray him. None of this ends very well. His story is about cheating, heartaches, murder, crime, and other misfortunes that seem to plague him wherever he goes. He never seems to catch a break even when he works his tail off. He gets slammed in Eau Claire, Washington, DC, and back at home. Mario seems to be snake-bitten. Mario hits rock bottom. He runs away, but he can never run away from himself. He gets another chance with his lost love, but he gets hit with another surprise. He is always on the doorstep of some type of calamity. Mario is about to throw in the towel when something mysterious happens. He finds out that his luck is godsend. His life is about to change forever. He also may have found a new love that will also last forever.