GameBook: The Unofficial DMG Companion

A project in Canvey island, UK by Ninty Media
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An unofficial companion to the Game Boy, looking at the history and iconic games on the platform. Adorned with artwork and photography.
Backers: 631
Average Pledge Per Backer: £59

Funded: £37,416 of £15,000
Dates: Apr 21st -> May 22nd (32 days)
Project By: Ninty Media
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Latest News

Content Reveal!

May 11th - via: kickstarter.com
Content Reveal! It's the penultimate content reveal of the week, and before the Zelda discourse kicks off today I thought it would be a good idea to get this one shown off! Our second Link's Awakening feature has been written by William Hill, and he... (Read More)

Content Reveal!

May 10th - via: kickstarter.com
Content Reveal! Inside the GAMEBOOK is a tribute to GunpeiYokoi, which was beautifully crafted by Jonathan Traynor. Yokoi san created many things at Nintendo but arguably nothing as iconic or important as the Game Boy. Which of his other creations... (Read More)

Content Reveal! Stretch Goal Update!

May 9th - via: kickstarter.com
Content Reveal! Morning everyone! After a long bank holiday weekend celebrating someone getting a new hat, it's back to normality for many of us which means it's time for a new tease. More than half of the book has been written by Paul, including a... (Read More)

Content Reveal!

May 8th - via: kickstarter.com
Content Reveal! Good Morning, Game Boy fans! I hope you all had a fantastic weekend and if you are in the UK, enjoying the extra bank holiday! Time for another content tease, and this game was certainly not going to be skipped. People were quite... (Read More)

Content Reveal!

May 5th - via: kickstarter.com
Content Reveal! Gaming has often presented us with difficult choices, but there cannot be many as hard as the one that Pokemon presented us with back in the late 1990s. Did you want the Red version or the Blue version? Each edition was cleverly (or... (Read More)

The upcoming Gamebook is a celebration of the iconic grey brick

May 5th - via: pockettactics.com
It might be all about the Nintendo Switch nowadays, but older Nintendo fans may have memories of the handheld system that started it all. The Game Boy is a distant memory, but its legacy lives on, and many adult gamers can still close their eyes and hear the Pokémon soundtrack playing. (Read More)

Content Reveal!

May 4th - via: kickstarter.com
Content Reveal! It wasn't all about fun and games on the Game Boy, and at one point a former Nintendo executive planned to release an accessory called the Work Boy which would have transformed the diminutive handheld into a work station when... (Read More)

Content Reveal!

May 3rd - via: kickstarter.com
 Content Reveal! Who wants another content tease? Mario may be Nintendo's mascot and primary icon, but it's it arguably Donkey Kong which put them on the gaming map. This tie-wearing ape's 1994 Game Boy adventure is memorable for many reasons, and... (Read More)

Content Reveal!

May 2nd - via: kickstarter.com
Content Reveal! Hello everyone! Hope you all had a fantastic bank holiday weekend. It's time for another content tease, and this is one that we definitely had to capture! The Game Boy Camera arrived late in the Game Boy's lifespan, just before the... (Read More)

Content Reveal!

May 1st - via: kickstarter.com
Content Reveal! The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening is quite possibly my all-time Game Boy game, and is easily in my top five games, ever. As a 15 year-old, I spent many an hour traipsing around Koholint Island, discovering every secret. It seems... (Read More)

Content Reveal! Funding Target Update!

April 29th - via: kickstarter.com
Content Reveal! As we enter our second week, we want to keep giving you little content teases. Today is a big one in every sense. Pokemon. Pokemon is arguably the most iconic game the Game Boy has, and you can expect the franchise to feature... (Read More)

Content Reveal!

April 28th - via: kickstarter.com
Good Afternoon everyone! Who wants another content reveal?  In 1992 the Metroid sequel arrived on the Game Boy, taking Samus Aran deep into the caverns on SR388 to investigate the Metroid shenanigans. As someone that loved the title the first time... (Read More)

Content Reveal!

April 26th - via: kickstarter.com
Good Morning everyone! Who wants another content reveal? In 1992 we met Kirby for the first time, so who better to tell you all about the pink puffball than Nintendo Life's Gemma Smith? You'll perhaps know her better as Dreamland Gem on social... (Read More)

Content Reveal!

April 24th - via: kickstarter.com
Content Reveal! Good Morning Game Boy fans! It's time for another content reveal, and I bet very few of you would be surprised to see Super Mario Land here. It is an iconic launch game after all, and I bet many of you are humming the world 1-1 theme... (Read More)

Stretch Goal Update!

April 23rd - via: kickstarter.com
Funding Target Update! We saw many new backers yesterday (welcome to you all, GameBoy lovers!) which saw us pass our first stretch goal. As noted yesterday, this first goal means that every single one of you will get a nice, shiny bookmark to go... (Read More)

Backer Update! | Content Reveal! | Stretch Goal Update!

April 22nd - via: kickstarter.com
Fully Funded in just 7 hours! Wow. Just wow. I really wasn't expecting this to fund so quickly. In less than 7 hours you all made this little dream of mine a reality, in doing so making it the fastest funding project I've been part of. We are always... (Read More)

Game Boy gets a luxurious book on Kickstarter

April 21st - via: gamereactor.eu
If you loved the classic monochrome Game Boy as much as we do, we think you should check out a new Kickstarter campaign for a book called GameBook: The Unofficial DMG Companion. (Read More)

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