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Design Room @designroom.site · 31/07/2026

Hi, we're a new video game oral histories site. Want to read the story of Shadow of the Colossus, as told by 11 people who worked on it? Or hear what Will Wright has to say about Spore in retrospect? Or see previously unreleased footage of Nintendo's Sound Fantasy? Check us out at designroom.site

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Philip Summers @heyphilsummers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This Mega Man 1 timeline was one of my favorite spreads from HDGG: Mega Man. It's interesting to see how many ways there are to play Mega Man based on the trends and delivery methods of each decade.

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Philip Summers @heyphilsummers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sketches from when I was trying to figure out the Wily's Revenge suits.

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Philip Summers @heyphilsummers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Here's an interview about my inspirations, creative process, and more. Thanks for the opportunity and kind words @legendscookbook.jobjobllc.com!

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Chris Kohler @kohler.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Symphony of the Night design documents on display at the Konami booth at TGS. The mock screenshot is incredible

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Philip Summers @heyphilsummers.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Took the family to the Undertale symphony in Philly tonight. I've never played through this game before but apparently I know every single song! Crowd was going wild during this thing!

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Philip Summers @heyphilsummers.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Opening this little Final Fantasy X music box.

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Philip Summers @heyphilsummers.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Mega Man takes a breather after stopping Dr. Wily. This is the unedited scan of an illustration used in Hand-Drawn Game Guides: Mega Man. I was in a nice groove of posting art almost daily for a few months but have obviously fallen out of it..

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Retro Game Books 📚 @retrogamebooks.com · 31/08/2026

A quote we ❤️ from @heyphilsummers.bsky.social in 𝘝𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘰 𝘎𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘱𝘴: 𝘕𝘌𝘚 & 𝘍𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘤𝘰𝘮 - 𝘋𝘦𝘭𝘶𝘹𝘦 𝘌𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 for Metroid. Pre-order is open now: retrogamebooks.com/products/vid...

A two-page spread from the forthcoming book Video Game Maps: NES & Famicom - Deluxe Edition featuring a quote by Philip Summers and a photograph of Samus (Metroid) art from Metroid - Hisshoubon Series, 1986. The quote reads: "It's easy to dismiss the map design of the original Metroid today, but it's much smarter than it gets credit for. The opening area, Brinstar, is divided into two halves with a single connecting bridge between the east and west. The majority of the game plays out in Brinstar East, though the game begins and ends in Brinstar West. In fact, the final showdown with Mother Brain takes place two screens above the game's starting area! It's a neat detail that's later revisited in the opening of Super Metroid, making Zebes feel more like an actual underground labyrinth than just a random set of screens haphazardly thrown together."

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Retro Game Books 📚 @retrogamebooks.com · 28/08/2026

Here's a few fun quotes you'll find in Video Game Maps: NES & Famicom - Deluxe Edition, now open for pre-order. retrogamebooks.com/products/vid... @heyphilsummers.bsky.social @vgmuseum.bsky.social @spacecoyote.com

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Philip Summers @heyphilsummers.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

That's enough losing the greats this week. 💔

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Philip Summers @heyphilsummers.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Mega Man Powered Up Robot Master order. This is from the Powered Up spread in the back of Hand-Drawn Game Guides: Mega Man. Brief coverage of both this and Wily Wars was something we had planned to do from the start, but...

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Philip Summers @heyphilsummers.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Look at this beast. I may not have featured cover art (but look how nice that new one is) but I did get to write about Mega Man, Metroid and Ninja Gaiden. All games I've mapped fully! Plus you can get my old cover as a poster and bookmark.

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Philip Summers @heyphilsummers.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I was watching an episode of Nick Arcade and this segment featuring a bunch of deep cut games and an early version of Sonic 2 was worth taking a deeper look at.

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Mr. Project @alanlmatthews.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

@heyphilsummers.bsky.social Time for my annual playthrough.

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Philip Summers @heyphilsummers.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Been playing a little Beach Spikers for GameCube here and there. All of the product placement means this likely won't hit Switch. It'll be stuck on GameCube for eternity. Still my favorite sports game for it!

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Syncoplay Retro Gaming @syncoplay.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Beyond the NES is LIVE on Kickstarter! 330+ pages 550+ games Reviews, interviews, history and more! A complete guide to the Famicom from an English-speaking perspective. www.kickstarter.com/projects/syn...

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Beyond the NES: Rediscovering 8-bit on the Japanese Famicom

Discover the 8-bit games you missed. A curated, 300+ page player's guide to the Japanese Famicom library.

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burst_error @bursterror.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The second installment of my GnG exploration series is up, covering Ghouls 'n Ghosts 'n Super Ghouls n' Ghosts 'n all the ports of course! youtu.be/Rf-2YUxnXgQ Sharing around is very appreciated, enjoy!!! 👹

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I Beat Every Version of Ghouls 'n Ghosts | Daimakaimura & Chomakaimura Retrospective

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Pixels and Polygons 🔜 PRGE @pixelsandpolygons.net · 13/08/2026

Hey everyone! I’ve been doing some journaling after my gaming sessions (inspired by exp @mathewkumar.com and @heyphilsummers.bsky.social) and I post them online for free, but I’ve also done monthly printed zines of these, because of course I would. You can get them through my Patreon!

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Philip Summers @heyphilsummers.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The Legend of Zelda - Dungeon 9 - Death Mountain Death Mountain is a brutal maze full of tricks and traps. There are plenty of paths to take, but this path is your best bet. As long as you can survive it!

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Philip Summers @heyphilsummers.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Castlevania 1 bosses. These were done for Hand-Drawn Gaming Issue 1 years ago. I placed cropped versions of them on the map, but this is the actual scan of the sheet I drew them on.

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Philip Summers @heyphilsummers.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Exploring my original GameCube memory card.

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Philip Summers @heyphilsummers.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

This is the next Mega Man project from NF Publishing. Matthew has been hard at work putting this one together. I'm looking forward to getting a copy of my own and wish the team lots of success with this one!

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Philip Summers @heyphilsummers.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

The Legend of Zelda - Dungeon 8 - Lion The final triforce piece rests inside this tricky dungeon. There are two special items inside, neither required but the magic key is a must.

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Philip Summers @heyphilsummers.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I had some comments about my Frankencable so I figured I'd show it in action with Animal Crossing for GameCube.

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Philip Summers @heyphilsummers.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Whenever Katsuya Terada's work is making the rounds it's usually his classic game art, so here's some shots from his recently released book This and That.

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Philip Summers @heyphilsummers.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Pencil sketch collage from my book 202X that represents the games I played through in 2023. Looking at this again it reminds me how much time has already passed since games like Tears of the Kingdom.

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Philip Summers @heyphilsummers.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The Legend of Zelda - Dungeon 7 - Demon The dungeon most know for the hungry Goriya. Link must bring him some food to continue exploring the dungeon.

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Philip Summers @heyphilsummers.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

In 2003 everyone made fun of this. In 2026 it's peak.

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Philip Summers @heyphilsummers.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Pages from Qvinta Essentia an art book featuring the work of Hitoshi Yoneda published in 1993. He's known for his iconic Phantasy Star and Sorcerian artwork. Some really beautiful work in here.

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Philip Summers @heyphilsummers.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Metroid (NES) - Entering Brinstar West

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Philip Summers @heyphilsummers.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

The Legend of Zelda - Dungeon 6 - Dragon In my opinion maybe the hardest dungeon in the game due solely to Wizzrobes. Take a potion into this one with you. "There are secrets where fairies don't live" is the player's only in game hint at the location of the 7th dungeon.

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Philip Summers @heyphilsummers.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I came across my old burned Dreamcast games. My friends and I all bought Dreamcasts after they were discontinued and we passed so many burned games around. Here's what I was left with. I'm a person that loves to have real copies of games on hand, but I feel oddly nostalgic for these discs.

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Philip Summers @heyphilsummers.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

This take on the original Mega Man stage select screen was a fun spread to put together, though in hindsight I wish I had given each robot master their own dedicated spread/section. There's always Mega Man 2 to fix that.

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shmuplations.com @shmuplations.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Today we have something special: a newly translated interview from July 1996 between Shigeru Miyamoto and Kenji Eno! Conducted just weeks after the launch of Mario 64, Eno takes Miyamoto to task (in a friendly way) with several fascinating critiques of its design. shmuplations.com/miyamotoxeno/

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Shigeru Miyamoto x Kenji Eno (1996) - shmuplations.com

In July 1996, Kenji Eno visited Nintendo HQ to speak with Shigeru Miyamoto as the first of his "cross-talk" series.

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Philip Summers @heyphilsummers.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I've been picking up a few art books recently. This is Reflections by Susumu Matsushita whom you'd know from Famitsu, Maximo, Adventure Island, etc. This book rocks. Glad to have added it to my small collection.

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Mike Ryan @mikeryan.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Sam Neill should have won an Oscar for this “help I’m being attacked by an invisible Chevy Chase” scene with a stupid looking plastic gun taped to the side of his head

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Philip Summers @heyphilsummers.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The Legend of Zelda - Dungeon 5 - Lizard This dungeon introduces passages that take Link to a different part of the map. There is also an optional bomb bag to purchase. Finding the whistle is a requirement to defeat the boss.

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Philip Summers @heyphilsummers.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Shining Force II (Sega Genesis | 1994) "Shining Force II is incredible, but heavens, do I suck at it. It is an amazing 16-bit strategy game which improves upon the original in nearly every way (unless you prefer the original game’s more streamlined approach)." [1/2]

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History of Hyrule, Zelda Archivist @historyofhyrule.com · 10/07/2026

I just uploaded 600dpi new scans of this 1987 Adventure of Link guide by Keibunsha. archive.org/details/guid... You'll find a couple of different styles of original art including some rare, but simple, hand drawn maps. I'll be making (and adding) 2400dpi scans of those soon.

A Japanese game guide cover with Link holding a sword and several bad guys.

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Philip Summers @heyphilsummers.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Bought this the other day at a toy show. My favorite part is that Dracula's weakness is bad jokes.

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Philip Summers @heyphilsummers.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Pencil sketch collage I did for my book 202X that represents the games I played through in 2022. There's a few in here I'd like to play again.

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Philip Summers @heyphilsummers.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

So I've been messing around with Game Boy Camera prints.

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“E.C. Horror” Myers @ecmyers.com · 08/07/2026

Had to change up the sticker on my RG35XXSP, so now @heyphilsummers.bsky.social's Mega Man adorns it. I think it looks mega cool!

Hand-drawn Mega Man sticker on a silver clamshell handheld

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