Tuesday, January 7, 2025

Officially-Licensed Hand-Drawn Game Guides: Mega Man Announced

Philip Summers, an artist known his hand-illustrated guides for classic '80s video games, is launching a Kickstarter for a brand-new project: an officially licensed Mega Man 1 game guide!

Philip's previous Kickstarter campaign for Hand-Drawn Game Guides made waves a few years back, raising over $322,000 from more than 4,700 backers. Unfortunately, that campaign had to be canceled due to licensing issues. Now, after three years of refining his craft, he’s partnered with Nintendo Force and Capcom to publish an brand-new strategy guide for Mega Man 1—everything is 100% official this time.



Pre-orders will begin on Tuesday, January 14 from the Kickster campaign page. You can click the "Notify me on launch" button to get updates when it goes live!

Best of luck to Phil and the team at Nintendo Force. Looking forward to this one!

12 comments:

  1. Love how this looks, it reminds me of old-school 90s video game magazines. Would love to own one.

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  2. Hm... I know what he's trying to do but I'm not feeling it.

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    1. If I'm being honest, Cut Man freaks me out. Everything else is pretty good - I can tell he's done this sort of work before.

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  3. Really cool stuff. That interpretation of Cut Man’s Stage is downright beautiful.

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  4. After how insane the later Robot Masters got with their designs, it's easy to forget how the original six were all designed as utility bots with specific functions in construction/land development.

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    1. Indeed. It’s why Bond Man is way cooler than Time Man (Oil Man is okay, at least conceptually).

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  5. He'd better be starting the player with Bomb Man, or else he's WRONG, lol.

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    1. Well it looks like Guts Man was already beat at least. Gotta use that weakness while you can!

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