{"id":68228,"date":"2018-12-11T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/12\/this_awesome_hand-drawn_ninja_gaiden_guide_brings_back_lovely_pre-internet_memories"},"modified":"2018-12-11T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T10:00:00","slug":"this-awesome-hand-drawn-ninja-gaiden-guide-brings-back-lovely-pre-internet-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/12\/11\/this-awesome-hand-drawn-ninja-gaiden-guide-brings-back-lovely-pre-internet-memories\/","title":{"rendered":"This Awesome Hand-Drawn Ninja Gaiden Guide Brings Back Lovely Pre-Internet Memories"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c727c088c1ba1\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c727c088c1ba1\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Ninja Gaiden guide\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c727c088c1ba1\/ninja-gaiden-guide.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c727c088c1ba1\/ninja-gaiden-guide.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Ninja Gaiden guide\" \/><\/a><span class=\"image-credit\" title=\"Image Credit\">Philip Summers<\/span><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Before strategy guides and that pesky, know-it-all internet came along, completing tricky games was a <em>serious<\/em> challenge. There was a time when players couldn&#8217;t simply Google &#8220;how do I unlock Simon Belmont&#8217;s luscious locks in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_smash_bros_ultimate\"><strong>Smash Bros.<\/strong><\/a>&#8220;, and instead had to figure everything out by playing over and over again.<\/p>\n<p>Often, though, players would use good ol&#8217; pen and paper to create their own guides for themselves, drawing out level designs and scribbling down anything that could turn out to be useful in the future &#8211; hence why game manuals used to come with notes sections at the back. As a way of preserving this dying trend, and to create something rather beautiful to share with the world, artist Philip Summers is releasing a new, hand-drawn guide to NES classic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nes\/ninja_gaiden\"><strong>Ninja Gaiden<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Ninja Gaiden guide\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/8fa5e77665246\/ninja-gaiden-guide.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/8fa5e77665246\/ninja-gaiden-guide.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Ninja Gaiden guide\" \/><\/a><span class=\"image-credit\" title=\"Image Credit\">Philip Summers<\/span><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Ninja Gaiden guide\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/381c796f0a6b4\/ninja-gaiden-guide.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/381c796f0a6b4\/ninja-gaiden-guide.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Ninja Gaiden guide\" \/><\/a><span class=\"image-credit\" title=\"Image Credit\">Philip Summers<\/span><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The whole guide is written from protagonist Ryu&#8217;s perspective, not only featuring maps for every single stage, character profiles, and art for every single character, but also a set of journal entries to &#8220;flesh out the story that is told in the game&#8221;. Just like Summers&#8217; other <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/04\/awesome_hand-drawn_guide_to_contra_proves_the_pen_is_mightier_than_the_keyboard\">hand-drawn guide for Contra<\/a>, this work will be available from <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/gumroad.com\/handdrawngameguides\">Gumroad<\/a> under a free \/ pay what you want download model.<\/p>\n<p>It launches tomorrow &#8211; coinciding with the release of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/12\/nintendo_adds_three_more_games_to_the_switch_online_nes_library_on_12th_december\">Ninja Gaiden on Switch<\/a> &#8211; so make sure to check back and download it for yourself to make your way through the game.<\/p>\n<p><em>Do you have memories of drawing your own guides? Do you now find yourself searching online for the answers you need? Let us know with a comment below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philip Summers Before strategy guides and that pesky, know-it-all internet came along, completing tricky games was a serious challenge. There was a time when players couldn&#8217;t simply Google &#8220;how do I unlock Simon Belmont&#8217;s luscious locks in Smash Bros.&#8220;, and instead had to figure everything out by playing over and over again. Often, though, players [&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-68228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68228","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=68228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}