Business Cards for the Whole Team
Mato’s had a business card since the release of LoL’s first book, and now Tony & I have been honored with one, too! Mine has my favorite bad translation on the back, and Tony’s has an impossible quiz:
Neat Junk Archive
Link Traveled from Asia
Here’s the latest in our quest to acquire all versions of Zelda games: the Asian version of Zelda 2~
Super Mario Sweater?
Lately I’ve been researching all the Japan-exclusive Famicom games. I just came across a Mario game I’ve never heard of called I am a Teacher: Super Mario Sweater. It’s a “game” on the Famicom Disk System where you design sweaters with Mario characters. You could edit the measurements of the sweater to ensure the perfect fit, then send your disk to a company and they would make the sweater you designed! :O
Decorate with Boxes
But they’re COOL boxes! For one reason or another, Fangamer ended up with a bunch of empty Super Famicom boxes. They were used to decorate a hallway in the new office:
Mario, Fire Up the Main Thrusters!
I don’t know why we have a Nintendo cereal ad next to a signed portrait of Geordi La Forge. Whatever, they’re both cool.
Best MOTHER 2 Ad is Now a Custom Poster
While doing research for the EB book, we came across the best ad for MOTHER 2 in one of the Japanese magazines we were borrowing. We loved it so much that Tony the Designer turned it into a poster!
Odd Decorations
One of the bookplates we signed for the EB LoL book accidentally got ripped, so now it lives on Fangamer’s receipt printer.
Unintentional Zelda Museum
We had to buy a lot of Zelda merchandise when we were working on the first book (we didn’t want to steal any photos from the internet, so we took our own). Now that the book is published, all that merchandise is displayed around the Fangamer office. Here’s a portion:
