Famitsu presents: Nintendo Complete Catalog

[Boo Destroyer]

www.tikisaurus.com/blog/wii/heres-the-nintendo-complete-catalog-2012-famitsu.html

Hitting bookstores and magazine racks across Japan before the end of 2011, Weekly Famitsu‘s 1205 issue (1/19/2012) comes bundled with what’s titled as the “Nintendo Complete Catalog.” The 194 page book contains data on every single title that was developed by the company from the years 1983 to 2011. It’s an interesting book to have for reference, as it contains exact release dates of games and hardware along with screen shots. Unfortunately, the volume doesn’t look made to last as the cover is made of thin, low quality paper, as opposed to a thicker magazine-like cover.

I noticed that while there’s mention of the Stellaview release of Kirby’s Star Stacker for the Super Famicom, there’s no information about the boxed retail release. Yes, that’s right. This book even contains information on the Stellaview, Super Famicom and Gameboy Nintendo Power download service releases and let’s not forget, the Virtual Boy. It even comes with a list of every Nintendo developed DSiWare, WiiWare and eShop title (listed with release date only, no photos).

This looks pretty cool. Too bad it will not be easily accessible. (Japan-only as it is)

Okay, I guess it could be imported. But if someone does get hold of this later on, they should be able to scan it all.

[Evie ❤✿]

Jan 7, 2012 2:25:54 GMT -5 Boo Destroyer said:

www.tikisaurus.com/blog/wii/heres-the-nintendo-complete-catalog-2012-famitsu.html

Hitting bookstores and magazine racks across Japan before the end of 2011, Weekly Famitsu‘s 1205 issue (1/19/2012) comes bundled with what’s titled as the “Nintendo Complete Catalog.” The 194 page book contains data on every single title that was developed by the company from the years 1983 to 2011. It’s an interesting book to have for reference, as it contains exact release dates of games and hardware along with screen shots. Unfortunately, the volume doesn’t look made to last as the cover is made of thin, low quality paper, as opposed to a thicker magazine-like cover.

I noticed that while there’s mention of the Stellaview release of Kirby’s Star Stacker for the Super Famicom, there’s no information about the boxed retail release. Yes, that’s right. This book even contains information on the Stellaview, Super Famicom and Gameboy Nintendo Power download service releases and let’s not forget, the Virtual Boy. It even comes with a list of every Nintendo developed DSiWare, WiiWare and eShop title (listed with release date only, no photos).

This looks pretty cool. Too bad it will not be easily accessible. (Japan-only as it is)

Okay, I guess it could be imported. But if someone does get hold of this later on, they should be able to scan it all.

That's interesting. It reminds me of the Game Boy encyclopaedia (271 pages), which was meant to document every licensed Game Boy game in Japan, and had multiple editions, the last (in 2001) I believe started documenting Game Boy Advance games. Unfortunately, it was incomplete and excluded games that were never released in Japan, as well as some titles like X (Ekkusu).

It would be a shame if that was the case with this encyclopaedia, i.e. would they list games like Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters? Also what do they class as Nintendo-developed; are they only first-party games, or will it included second-party/Nintendo published games as well? There's also a few games, like Chee Chai Alien (Creatures) that you could say Nintendo (or a subsidiary) developed but didn't get published by Nintendo, apparently Nintendo were going to publish that game but decided not to, because there was no IR support for the Game Boy Advance.

[randytiki]

Thanks for reading my article. In response to torchchickens, Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters is NOT included in this volume because the game was never released in Japan. Second-party developed games are considered part of the Nintendo developed line and included here, such as Starfox Adventures, Metroid Prime and Wario World for the Gamecube. Wario Land 4 and the Starfy games (GBA) that were made by TOSE are also in this book.

Since the book lists all titles released with release date, un-released games like Creatures are NOT in this book. If you have any other questions, I'll try to answer them as best I can. Thanks for checking out the site.

Regards,
Randy

[8bitretroshit]

Suweet. I'd buy it, despite only being able to look at the pretty pictures. It's listed on Ebay, but as expected the cheapest is about 6 times as much as the Japanese pricing. Ohwell, maybe next month

[nocturnal YL]

I'll see if I can squeeze time to hit Japanese bookstores, and hopefully find an issue of that (I don't think the ones I know have Famitsu magazine). I'm kind of busy though, so it is very possible for me not to even have the time to try.

And... 6 times the Japanese price? 3000 yen? I'd totally buy that at that price.

[Fryguy64]

It'd be interesting to see just how in-depth it goes. A lot of this information is freely available on the internet (Japan is very good with recording release dates), and I'd be very surprised if it contains anything on Satellaview we don't already know.

But then I've been playing this game so long these things don't much surprise me these days

Now if NoA showed off their release dates rather than month/year, that would really be something!

[mrmolecule]

Apparently they've been releasing books like this since the early 1990s.

There's also a book out there I've never bought that apparently has release dates and information for every NES game ever released (along with the SMS and 7800, but eh, who cares), but I've never bought it.