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DELVE INTO THE BEGINNING OF A GENRE WITH “THE HISTORY OF METROIDVANIA: DECADE ONE—1980-1990”

Oct. 9, 2025

Take a chronological journey through gaming’s least linear format: the action RPGDark Horse Books introduces the world to Jeremy Parish's in-depth exploration of the metroidvania genre in The History of Metroidvania: Decade One—1980-1990. Parish (NES Works, Virtual Boy Works), the current Media Curator at Limited Run Games and video game historian, pens this exhaustively researched book about the gaming trends of the early 1980s and how those beginnings shaped the initial expressions of the metroidvania... Read More...