{"title":"Architecture","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"the-history-of-metroidvania-decade-one-1980-1990-hardcover","title":"The History of Metroidvania: Decade One--1980-1990 - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJeremy Parish\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA chronological journey through gaming's least linear format: the action RPG. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe metroidvania genre has become a staple of video gaming. 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The story begins years before anyone had conceived of the name metroidvania--before the first \u003ci\u003eMetroid\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCastlevania\u003c\/i\u003e games had even arrived on the scene. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this exhaustively researched publication, you'll see how gaming trends of the early 1980s came together to give us initial expressions of the metroidvania concept, and how the design language of the genre evolved over the course of the 8-bit hardware era. 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