I'm gonna get a ton of flak for this and possibly get banned but I'm gonna be "that guy" here. I'm not a huge fan of it. I might be a little biased because I am used to full color spreads with writing in just about every square inch of the pages, different kinds of font, lots of hand drawn artwork, etc, meticulous attention to details, and I just don't see any of that here. Granted, to properly encapsulate 7+ years of video game releases, 724 titles, and all the history that comes with it, in the span of time you are allotted and the resources available to you, would probably result in a book that took years to complete and cost the reader much more than your asking price.

The main thing I wanted to see in this book was release months. I know that unless a game was hyped a lot or was a launch title, we usually don't have much to go off of for official release dates, but the months are relatively easy to find. I'm probably one of the few people that actually cares about that though so meh.

The other thing I really was hoping to see was production totals. I know that these numbers are well-guarded (for what reason I do not know) but that information is invaluable to a collector. Obviously the numbers don't describe true rarity (i.e. the actual amount of cartridges floating around out there) but it's a starting point. You would be able to see relative rarity of a game if it has 1/10 of the amount of carts produced compared to Super Mario World for example.

I spend a lot of time with a magazine in front of my face. What your magazine looks like is like a very early Electronic Gaming Monthly issue- a lot of white space, plain, boring font, very very basic info on games. I can't really zoom in on your sample pictures to see what the text says so I can't comment on that.

I don't really know who this book is geared toward- is it early 20-somethings who want a general idea of what games are out there for a system that came out long before they came into the world? Is it the hardcore SNES fan who wants to know everything about every SNES game ever released in the U.S.? If there isn't any new information I can glean from the book, it doesn't do much for me. There's a lot to be said about a system that came out 2 years after its primary competitor and maintained market dominance even when more powerful systems were coming out in the years after its launch.

Do you have information on variants? Misprints? Errors? Pack-in features? PCB pictures (that'd be really helpful in a time when counterfeiting is so prevalent and even encouraged by some.) What about scores given to games from magazines of their time? How many MB are the games? Maybe I am asking too much. I've been spoiled with the likes of Whitman Red Book for coins and Car and Driver, publications that give the reader so much information on its subject that it's almost unfathomable. Right now Nintendo Age is probably the best resource available for the kind of information I want, but it's nice to not have to support an authoritarian regime in order to see that information and also would be nice to see it in paper form.

Sorry, don't mean to come off as being inconsiderate. I could feign interest and not buy it or I could tell you what would make me want to buy it and then if you do a revised edition in the future, I'd be interested. There's so much information out there that I don't see the book being possible with anything less than a staff of like 30 people. There's just way too much information out there that needs to be double checked and cross referenced that it's not possible for 1 person to do it alone.