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Nintendo 64 Anthology - Enhanced Classic Edition
384 pages, 388 game reviews (all games reviewed), interviews, complete history, Collector's Guide... Everything you need to know about Nintendo 64!
September 29th, 2016, marked the Nintendo 64’s twentieth anniversary. To celebrate the birth of this incredibly avant-gardist machine, Matt Manent has written the most comprehensive and remarkable book about this legendary console. Over 360 pages long, this book inventories and chronicles the entire game library (388 games sold in Japan, the US, Europe, and Australia), sifts through the canceled games, accessories, collector’s editions, and, of course, every Nintendo 64 version and bundle. By interviewing the people involved at the time – Martin Hollis (Rare – GoldenEye) and Eric Caen (Titus – Superman; acknowledged as one of the machine’s worst games),– Matt Manent has worked to make this book an encyclopedia honoring the Nintendo 64 we’ve all come to love.
September 29th, 2016, marked the Nintendo 64’s twentieth anniversary. To celebrate the birth of this incredibly avant-gardist machine, Matt Manent has written the most comprehensive and remarkable book about this legendary console. Over 360 pages long, this book inventories and chronicles the entire game library (388 games sold in Japan, the US, Europe, and Australia), sifts through the canceled games, accessories, collector’s editions, and, of course, every Nintendo 64 version and bundle. By interviewing the people involved at the time – Martin Hollis (Rare – GoldenEye) and Eric Caen (Titus – Superman; acknowledged as one of the machine’s worst games),– Matt Manent has worked to make this book an encyclopedia honoring the Nintendo 64 we’ve all come to love.
384 pages, Hardcover
First published January 3, 2017
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November 8, 2020
NOTE: This is a review for the Enhanced Edition
The Nintendo 64 Anthology Classic Edition is the ultimate guide to the Nintendo 64 gaming console. It covers everything, from its development and inception to hardware description, listing the full game library, anecdotes, peripherals or full list of cancelled games. Any fan of the console would enjoy reading this.
On the plus side it is also the fact that the book is beautifully bound in solid hardcover quality and full color pages. Delivery is also impressive as the book is protected by plenty of bubble wrap in its parcel, making sure that by the time you get it, it will be in pristine condition.
So far I've only said good words, so how come I'm not giving it 5 stars?
Unfortunately there are major gripes with the book, there are some grammatical errors that are too basic to escape an editor's review. There are also some pages where the snapshots of the game do not correspond with the game being described in the text, and some minor layout mistakes too. Considering I paid over $60 for it, at that price I would expect to get a perfect product and Nintendo 64 Anthology is not. One last minor thing would be the game reviews by the author. First of all, the full game library is analyzed which is an arduous task so fair play to the author. However, his reviews are nothing but partial (at the end of the day, which review is not? like the one I'm writing myself here right now ;-)). So some of the game scores to me feel more like the author's personal opinion of the game rather than something based on thorough criteria (like graphics, re-playability value, music, etc.)
All in all, a book that any Nintendo 64 fan should have in their library but on the expensive side. I hope the authors fix the grammar and layout mistakes in the future.
The Nintendo 64 Anthology Classic Edition is the ultimate guide to the Nintendo 64 gaming console. It covers everything, from its development and inception to hardware description, listing the full game library, anecdotes, peripherals or full list of cancelled games. Any fan of the console would enjoy reading this.
On the plus side it is also the fact that the book is beautifully bound in solid hardcover quality and full color pages. Delivery is also impressive as the book is protected by plenty of bubble wrap in its parcel, making sure that by the time you get it, it will be in pristine condition.
So far I've only said good words, so how come I'm not giving it 5 stars?
Unfortunately there are major gripes with the book, there are some grammatical errors that are too basic to escape an editor's review. There are also some pages where the snapshots of the game do not correspond with the game being described in the text, and some minor layout mistakes too. Considering I paid over $60 for it, at that price I would expect to get a perfect product and Nintendo 64 Anthology is not. One last minor thing would be the game reviews by the author. First of all, the full game library is analyzed which is an arduous task so fair play to the author. However, his reviews are nothing but partial (at the end of the day, which review is not? like the one I'm writing myself here right now ;-)). So some of the game scores to me feel more like the author's personal opinion of the game rather than something based on thorough criteria (like graphics, re-playability value, music, etc.)
All in all, a book that any Nintendo 64 fan should have in their library but on the expensive side. I hope the authors fix the grammar and layout mistakes in the future.
June 16, 2017
This book has every bit of information one could conceivably want to know about the Nintendo 64, and then some: its development, its hardware and accessories, reviews for every game ever released for the system in any region, every known game that was cancelled or even announced, and so on. Despite the mind-blowing effort put into its content, the book is lousy with typos, bad translations (clearly by nonnative speakers and/or a computer), formatting mistakes, and inconsistencies. It's not unreadable by any means, but the overall impression is less "sleek, modern video game magazine" and more "Angelfire site of a French guy who's madly in love with the N64 and has still, 20 years after the fact, not gotten over Europe's inferior game library."
June 2, 2017
The Nintendo 64 is one of my favourite consoles of all time, so it made sense for me to pre-order this bad boy. In short, the Nintendo 64 Anthology is a great book for fans of the consoles, since it has pretty much everything one would want in it. It tells the whole story about is inception and its inspiration. It has information about its ENTIRE catalog of games, accesories, controllers, and even a whole section about the infamous Disk Drive. It's got a couple of interesting interviews (including one with a guy from Titus! Yes, the makers of the terrible Superman 64...), and even a few pages about canceled games.
All in all, it's a great read, very agile and informative. I thought I knew everything there is to know about the console; it seems I was wrong. The only problem with the book it that it's very obvious English is not the author's native tongue. There are a couple of grammatical errors here and there, and the way many sentences are written, it feels they're direct translations from another language (I assume French). Apart from that, it gets a full recommendation, especially for Nintendo fans, but also to videogame enthusiasts in general.
All in all, it's a great read, very agile and informative. I thought I knew everything there is to know about the console; it seems I was wrong. The only problem with the book it that it's very obvious English is not the author's native tongue. There are a couple of grammatical errors here and there, and the way many sentences are written, it feels they're direct translations from another language (I assume French). Apart from that, it gets a full recommendation, especially for Nintendo fans, but also to videogame enthusiasts in general.
February 1, 2017
A superb resource and trip down memory lane for N64 fanatics like myself. However, it's difficult to award this $40 book five stars simply due to the amount of typos, pixilated photographs and little mistakes. Math Manent has produced a wonderful book but it's been somewhat let down by editing and proofreading oversights. Would still highly recommend to N64 and Nintendo fans.
May 5, 2021
An exhaustive hive of information about the N64. Fascinating to read about early development of the console and everything that went into making it.
Only downside is the game reviews which are very negative and feel like they're written as though reviewed today and not in the 90s.
But a must buy and read for every N64 fan
Only downside is the game reviews which are very negative and feel like they're written as though reviewed today and not in the 90s.
But a must buy and read for every N64 fan
May 3, 2021
Nintendo 64 is the greatest console from the 1990s!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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