This morning, the postman rang twice.

And what he brought me, was the newest book published by Bitmap Books:
"The CRPG Book: A Guide to Computer Role-Playing Games".

As some may already know, there were some problems with this book (scratches on the cover), as mentioned in this thread already: https://www.gog.com/forum/general/the_crpg_book_project_released/post95

Well, I went with option #2 (receiving my book now, despite the possibility of having some scratches on its cover).

And today it came - and yeah - for those interested: there are very slight scratches on the cover.

But since I don't intent to stow it away into my safe-deposit box, but to read it instead; I guess, these won't stay the only scratches/usage marks on the book.

But enough talk - let's see what I got:

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Edit: added some more pics

Edit 2: the picture named "themap" should be named "theposter", of course - I was still half asleep, when I took the pics and posted them this morning. :)

Nice!
It's a very good package indeed!
Just wonder if the 3 components arrived in a single box and the 'pipe' with the map can arrive safely in (almost) every shipping condition

Thanks

This looks really cool.
I could probably spend hours just looking through the pics first.

I'm gonna assume games are represented in the 'map'. What are they?

What's the most recent game on there?

It looks awesome. I already have their SNES book, so I sort of have an idea of their physical style- I like how they go with proper sewn binding and not glued.

Mine is in the post, but it takes a few weeks for things to arrive in Australia.

I also noticed when looking through the new PDF version that a few extra games have been added.

Cool! And luckly the scratches seem minimal.

I got lucky... my standard edition has no scratches in the gold ink.

Too bad the PDF has no bookmarks and/or hyperlinks in the TOC. It's just a PDF export option in Indesign...

The book itself and the extras (poster/postcards) were in a normal package, with the cardboard tube (containing the poster) taped onto the side - all together wrapped in a sturdy, "tearproof", black plastic foil. Aargh, dammit...the picture named "themap" should be named "theposter", of course...that happens, when you are still half asleep in the morning. ;) The book covers a span between 1975 and 2015 (though in the contents, it says 1975 to 2014 - I guess, they forgot to edit that before going into print).

The most recent games (from 2015) are:
- Underrail
- The Witcher III - The Wild Hunt
- Age of Decadence
- Undertale
- Mystery Chronicles: One Way Heroes
- Tale of Wuxia
- Fallout 4
- Sunless Sea
- Hand of Fate
- Pillars of Eternity I haven't read the pdf (I was waiting for the printed book to read it "properly") but I guess that may be the games from 2015? At the end of the printed book? (s.a.) Yeah. It's really no biggie (for me at least - others opinions may differ, of course).

Looks really good, sadly my book did not even ship even with option 2, oh well
guess i'll have to wait.

I say it's worth the wait. :)

There's already a thread for this: https://www.gog.com/forum/general/the_crpg_book_project_released

He already knows about that . ( see the op )

That just makes it worse.

Oh i'll absolutely think its worth not only due to the nice pictures you took :) but also to the
C64 Visual Compendium i allready have.

Well, thank you! :)

Tell me about it.
I love the Bitmap books.
So far I own the Commodore 64 Commpendium, the Commodore Amiga Commpendium, the Sinclair ZX Spectrum Compendium, the A Gremlin in the Works, the Art of Point-and-Click Adventure Games and as of today the CRPG book...

And the NES/Famicom Compendium, and the SNES/Super Famicom Compendium are on my wishlist. :)

They always deliver both quantity and quality with their books - I love that.

This looks fantastic. I can't wait for mine to arrive.