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Map Gab / Hand-Drawn Game Guides by Phil Summers (NES)
« on: Yesterday at 07:18:18 pm »If you go here and scroll down to "The Original Unofficial Guides, for FREE!", you can download .PDFs of hand-drawn game guides for some NES classics: Contra, The Legend Of Zelda, Metroid, and Ninja Gaiden. When the art is cool (and cute), just generally well-done, there's definitely visual appeal to these. I like the comic style and how there's just random drawings everywhere. The Metroid and Ninja Gaiden ones are especially cute; I think the "seriousness" we associate with Samus and Hayabusa makes for an interesting juxtaposition when they don't look or act like hardened warriors.
I swear we talked about them earlier here in these forums, but I can't find that topic. I know I'd heard about these before, something about issues with crowdfunding, maybe? Unless that was something else? In any case, I'd only just (re?)discovered that these guides are free, and it sounds like Phil Summers is working on another one.
Pretty cool stuff, eh?