{"id":127684,"date":"2022-08-30T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-136845"},"modified":"2022-08-30T16:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T16:30:00","slug":"jumping-for-joy-leaps-into-platforming-history-with-plenty-for-nintendo-fans-to-enjoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/08\/30\/jumping-for-joy-leaps-into-platforming-history-with-plenty-for-nintendo-fans-to-enjoy\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Jumping For Joy’ Leaps Into Platforming History, With Plenty For Nintendo Fans To Enjoy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If you’re looking to explore the history of Nintendo and its games, Chris Scullion<\/a>, video games journalist extraordinaire and Nintendo Life contributor no less, is a go-to expert in the field. Having worked at Official Nintendo Magazine back in the day, he’s already got several tomes’ worth of facts and figures for you to peruse in his encyclopedia series covering the NES<\/a> and SNES<\/a>, with a new N64 encyclopedia coming later this year.<\/p>\n

Not content with cornering the Nintendo market, yer man Scullion has expanded plans for encyclopedic domination with several projects in the works covering other systems, too. He’s already got the Sega Mega Drive & Genesis Encyclopedia under his belt, but before we enjoy his take on the Dreamcast library and beyond, his latest book, Jumping For Joy: The History Of Platform Games<\/strong>, is perhaps the perfect stepping stone for Nintendo fans who might want to expand their knowledge of games on those aforementioned other<\/em> platforms.<\/p>\n

Given Nintendo’s mastery of this particular genre, there’s an appropriately generous helping of Mario throughout Jumping For Joy’s 167 pages, which \u2014 as you might expect given the title \u2014 chart the course of the humble platform game from its origins to the present day. Shot through with Scullion’s trademark humour, the book’s largest section follows a similar format to the encyclopedias, with breakout facts accompanying entries for a whole bunch of notable works spanning over four decades of platform games.<\/p>\n