Remembering the nostalgic feel of when I personally thought Nintendo Power was at its peak, the completion of the NES Game Atlas and the near-completion of the hypothetical Super NES Game Atlas certainly does lend itself to a "
Game Boy Game Atlas". There was a Game Boy Player's Guide, just like there was a Super NES Player's Guide, but it didn't focus on maps. I didn't own the original Game Boy (but I got a Game Boy Pocket years later, and only because it was on sale because the Game Boy Colors were already out, and I bought a Super Game Boy just for Link's Awakening, and my only other game is Pok?mon: Red Version), but I had some familiarity because I had that Player's Guide and it was always present in Nintendo Power.
Not sure that everyone is particularly fond of the good old monochrome Game Boy (other than, say, RyuMaster), so it could be extended to the Game Boy Color. Maybe even the Game Boy Advance?
I'm pretty sure all the Zelda games are mapped (just greyscale the Link's Awakening DX maps if you want Link's Awakening (non-DX) maps
), even all the way up to The Minish Cap, and all have been honoured as Maps of the Month (even concluding this very month with The Minish Cap). And I'm pretty sure the Mega Man games are all mapped thanks to marioman's topic, with the exception of Mega Man & Bass (but we have the Super NES...er, Super Famicom version all mapped out). I guess maybe there won't be many left to map out. Well, there's Super Mario Bros. Deluxe... There's Ninja Gaiden Shadow and the TMNT games... Hmmm. I know there were three Game Boy TMNT games, but are they (and the later GBA games) any good? And where's the full map of Castlevania: Aria Of Sorrow? 0_0 Well, maybe we could leave the GBA games out of it, or at least for now, since technically the age of the GBA isn't over - at least not for another month, when the DSi with no GBA slot comes out and leads to the inevitable discontinuation of the DS Lite...
I know that Will's always up for a challenge, and has contributed a lot to this and the previous topic. What does Will - and the rest of you - think about the Game Boy? If there's not much interest in the Game Boy, we could always make topics about particular series, and the popularity of marioman's Mega Man topic is a testament to that.
I agree with Peardian that
Kirby has not gotten much attention here. Where are Kirby's Dream Land 3 and Kirby: Super Star? And as for non-Nintendo series, I should be appalled, or at least surprised, at the lack of the
Sonic The Hedgehog games. If Sonic is the guy who stood up against Super Mario and fared pretty well, then where are the Sonic fans who would be mapping his games? And
Final Fantasy - seriously - we have a few games mapped, but very few of the "main-numbered" ones (other than a few overworld maps, big whoop). Admittedly it'd take a long while for someone to do them, especially with the kind of care they deserve (a la Grizzly's Secret Of Evermore, KingKuros's The 7th Saga, or Peardian's revisions of Super Mario RPG), but considering the rabid FF fanbase, I would've thought we would've seen more than we have by now. Unless they're all VII-and-onwards fanboys (you know my feelings towards them). Even so, FF VII and FF VIII have PC versions (which might be easier to map) and those two, along with FF IX, have prerendered backgrounds, so you'd expect even them to be mapped. At least VII, sheesh. The most overrated game ever and no fanboys have yet mapped it - or at least not shared with VGMaps? Maybe my "shut-the-frick-up-about-FF VII-and-play-something-else-it's-been-over-a-decade-like-seriously" attitude scared them away, but I honestly think it would be awesome to have maps of that game.
And other than the FFs, Squaresoft's other games, especially those on the Super NES, including Chrono Trigger and Secret Of Mana, deserve nice maps, but those may be tall orders. The recent release of Chrono Trigger on the DS and Secret Of Mana on the Wii Virtual Console ensure there would be interest...though I know that doesn't make it any easier.
Will, your zeal for a possible "
Master System Game Atlas" is great - I'm sure Maxim has been and could be a great help in that regard, however, I'm not sure I agree with your choices of series. Sonic, Alex Kidd, and Wonder Boy, unquestionably, but most of the others...ehhh. But what do I know, I grew up with Nintendo. I'm not going to make a Master System topic because of my lack of familiarity with it and its games, but if you want to do that, you're more than welcome to.
But if chapter names are still necessary, I think they could use a bit of work.
