Hand-Drawn Game Guides Returns with Officially Licensed Mega Man™ Book

Preorders Begin on January 14, 2025 – Preview Pages Available Now

Happy New Year, Mega Man™ fans! It has now been over 37 years since the Blue Bomber first made his iconic video game debut in Mega Man™ for the NES. To celebrate the anniversary, NF Publishing (the creators of Nintendo Force Magazine and The Impact of Iwata) and Philip Summers of Hand-Drawn Game Guides have teamed up with Capcom to create Hand-Drawn Game Guides: Mega Man, an officially licensed guidebook celebrating and illustrating every aspect of Mega Man

for the NES.

In 2021, the video game world was taken by storm by artist and author Philip Summers’ classic video game guidebooks done entirely by hand, a project he named Hand-Drawn Game Guides. Featuring pages packed with hand-drawn art and maps, thousands of fans were clamoring to get their hands on physical versions of these guides, but Philip was unable to move forward as he lacked the official licenses to print physical copies of his work. However, the project caught the eye of NF Publishing, and for the past three years, they’ve been working to overcome that obstacle. Now, with NF’s support, Capcom has become an officially licensed partner, and Philip has been working on his most ambitious project yet: Hand-Drawn Game Guides: Mega Man.

Hand-Drawn Game Guides: Mega Man is a first-of-its-kind celebration of the origin point of an iconic video game series. Every creative element in the book is done by hand, even down to the copyright page! The book functions as a full strategy guide for complete playthroughs of Mega Man — as well as its Game Boy follow-up, Mega Man: Dr. Wily’s Revenge™, as bonus content. Detailed, hand-drawn maps for every level are included, complete with tips and tricks for challenging areas, individual evaluations of every enemy in the game and strategies for defeating the Robot Master bosses (and, of course, Dr. Wily himself). Philip has packed the book with a lifetime of love for Mega Man that shines through on every single page.

Preorders will begin on January 14, 2025, to support the production of physical Hand-Drawn Game Guides: Mega Man books. Fans can stay up to date on everything happening with Hand-Drawn Game Guides: Mega Man by following NF Publishing on Facebook, Twitter/X, Bluesky and Instagram, and further information is also available on NF Publishing’s website here. For media and content creator inquiries on Hand-Drawn Game Guides: Mega Man, please contact hello@neveraminute.com.

Capcom is a leading worldwide developer, publisher and distributor of

interactive entertainment for game consoles, PCs, handheld and wireless devices. Founded in 1983, the company has created hundreds of games, including groundbreaking franchises Resident Evil™, Monster Hunter™, Street Fighter™, Mega Man™, Devil May Cry™ and Ace Attorney™. Capcom maintains operations in the U.S., U.K., Germany, France, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and Tokyo, with corporate headquarters located in Osaka, Japan. More information about Capcom and its products can be found at www.capcom.com or news.capcomusa.com.

Capcom®, and the Capcom logo are registered trademarks of Capcom Co., Ltd. in the U.S. or other countries. Ace Attorney, Devil May Cry, Mega Man, Monster Hunter, Resident Evil and

property of their respective owners.

When the iconic Nintendo Power magazine announced in 2012 that they

would ship their final issue that December, a new dream team of well-known game journalists and artists came together to create a spiritual successor! Calling themselves the Nintendo Force, they shipped the first issue of NF Magazine in January 2013 (exactly one month after NP ended), and have continued publishing new issues every two months ever since. In recent years, NF Publishing has expanded its efforts and embraced book publishing as well, beginning with

The Impact of Iwata, in 2023. The NF team is proud to be partnering with Capcom to now publish officially licensed works starring Mega Man!

About Philip Summers: Philip Summers is a trailblazing artist and author, as well as the original visionary behind the creation of Hand-Drawn Game Guides. If you’re of a certain age, then you probably remember back in the early days of video games, when all the popular franchises were still in kind of a state of flux and no official style had really been locked in for representing the on-screen pixel graphics as actual illustrated artwork. Phil’s work in the Hand-Drawn Game Guide series brings back to life the imaginative scenes that played out in the minds of young kids in

the 80s – back when you had to have a real imagination to fill in all the gaps from the graphics’ lack of detail! If you ever kept a notebook by your side to sketch out your own level maps in those games or scribble your favorite characters in the margins, Phil is you, but all grown up and with a few extra decades of art practice under his belt.

Sourced from an email from Nintendo Force Editor-in-Chief Lucas M. Thomas. Everything is as it was originally presented.

Full disclosure: LBD “Nytetrayn”, aka David Oxford, is a writer for Nintendo Force magazine, but is not directly involved in the production of the Hand-Drawn Game Guides: Mega Man book. All questions/concerns should go to the respective parties outlined in the press release above.

LBD "Nytetrayn"

David Oxford, or “LBD ‘Nytetrayn’,” as he is sometimes also known, is a freelance writer of many varied interests who resides in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. If you’re interested in hiring him, please drop him a line at david.oxford (at) nyteworks.net.

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