News Missing 'History Of Nintendo' Books On The Famicom & Game Boy Are Now Available In English

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Earlier this week, the author Florent Gorges announced the long-awaited release of The History Of Nintendo: the Story of the Family Computer and The History Of Nintendo: The Incredible Story of the Game Boy in English.

As mentioned below, both books had previously only ever been published in French or Spanish, despite including some of the most thorough investigations into the history of the iconic Nintendo machines. So it's great to see them finally get a proper translation here, even if it's taken many years to get to this point.

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If you feel like picking up a copy, both books are now available to order directly from Amazon for $28 / £21.30 each. You can find the relevant links below:

• The History Of Nintendo: the Story of the Family Computer (Amazon US/Amazon UK)
• The History Of Nintendo: The Incredible Story of the Game Boy (Amazon US/Amazon UK)

As we previously detailed in the original article below, the Family Computer and Game Boy books actually represent parts 3 and 4 of a 4-part series. So you may be wondering why those first two books (on Nintendo's early history and the history of the Game & Watch) haven't been reissued here too. After all, those two actually received English translations more than a decade ago, so it should simply be a case of reprinting them, right?

Well, according to Gorges, it's basically down to the fact that the French edition of those books has since received "3 big updates", meaning that the original English books are now out of date and need to be retranslated. Gorges says there's a chance those books will eventually be made available again, but it all "depends on the sales" of the Famicom and Game Boy volumes.