{"id":16754,"date":"2018-04-06T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-06T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/04\/awesome_hand-drawn_guide_to_contra_proves_the_pen_is_mightier_than_the_keyboard"},"modified":"2018-04-06T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-06T12:00:00","slug":"awesome-hand-drawn-guide-to-contra-proves-the-pen-is-mightier-than-the-keyboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/04\/06\/awesome-hand-drawn-guide-to-contra-proves-the-pen-is-mightier-than-the-keyboard\/","title":{"rendered":"Awesome: Hand-Drawn Guide To Contra Proves The Pen Is Mightier Than The Keyboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Screen Shot 2018-04-04 at 16.29.24.png\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/04\/awesome_hand-drawn_guide_to_contra_proves_the_pen_is_mightier_than_the_keyboard\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/04\/awesome_hand-drawn_guide_to_contra_proves_the_pen_is_mightier_than_the_keyboard\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2018-04-04 at 16.29.24.png\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>If you grew up in the 8 and 16-bit eras then you&#8217;ll no doubt be familiar with the concept of writing down notes and drawing maps to help you beat tricky games.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the days before the internet and readily-available guidebooks, players had to make their own luck &#8211; and that usually involved putting pen to paper and creating your very own game-busting tips guide.<\/p>\n<p>Artist\u00a0Philip Summers has attempted to reclaim this lost art with a hand-drawn guide to Konami&#8217;s classic NES title, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nes\/contra\"><strong>Contra<\/strong><\/a>. The guide features tips, maps and much more besides, and has been created entirely by hand.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/04\/awesome_hand-drawn_guide_to_contra_proves_the_pen_is_mightier_than_the_keyboard\/attachment\/1\/original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/04\/awesome_hand-drawn_guide_to_contra_proves_the_pen_is_mightier_than_the_keyboard\/attachment\/1\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2018-04-04 at 16.29.02.png\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/04\/awesome_hand-drawn_guide_to_contra_proves_the_pen_is_mightier_than_the_keyboard\/attachment\/2\/original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/04\/awesome_hand-drawn_guide_to_contra_proves_the_pen_is_mightier_than_the_keyboard\/attachment\/2\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2018-04-04 at 16.29.14.png\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/04\/awesome_hand-drawn_guide_to_contra_proves_the_pen_is_mightier_than_the_keyboard\/attachment\/3\/original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/04\/awesome_hand-drawn_guide_to_contra_proves_the_pen_is_mightier_than_the_keyboard\/attachment\/3\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2018-04-04 at 16.28.52.png\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>It&#8217;s available from today on <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/gumroad.com\/shamoozal\">Gumroad<\/a>; you can download it for free or pay whatever you think is appropriate. Just remember that this guide could save your life one day, soldier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you grew up in the 8 and 16-bit eras then you&#8217;ll no doubt be familiar with the concept of writing down notes and drawing maps to help you beat tricky games.\u00a0 In the days before the internet and readily-available guidebooks, players had to make their own luck &#8211; and that usually involved putting pen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}