Block Hero of the video games

The block Héros of the video games is a series of ten postage stamps emitted by the French post office the November 14th, 2005 within the framework of the Collection Youth. It gathers famous characters of Video games.

The setting on sale with Oblitération First day takes place November 11th and 12th at the time of the philatelic Salon of autumn, with Paris. An obliteration without mention “first day” was possible with Bitche.

The contour of the block and the page layout of the stamps are carried out by Aurélie Baras, the images are provided by the editors.

Heroes present

The stamps are arranged on five lines of two columns.

Here 10 heroes present with the facial value of the stamps, and positioned as on the block:

In the practice of the Collection Youth, the values allow the clothes industry of stampings two stamps. A stamp of 0,33 € and one of 0,20 € together make it possible to send a letter of less than 20 grams bound for the Metropolitan France and of the four overseas departments.

Biography of the heroes

Link, Mario and Donkey Kong respectively has all three summer created by Shigeru Miyamoto in 1986, 1981 and 1981 (the two last having appeared in the same play: Donkey Kong ). Link appears for the first time in The Legend off Zelda .

Pacman is created by Toru Iwatani in 1980 and quickly obtains a planetary success on terminal of arcade. The illustration is an assembly made up of the sprites of the first pacman appeared on arcade.

The Prince de Perse is the last character appeared before 1990. It is created in 1989 by Jordan Mechner for the play Prince off Persia . The illustration comes from Prince off Persia: sands of time .

Adibou, little known apart from the medium of the ludo-educational software , illustrates a stamp rather intended for young people. Adi, his/her big brother appears in 1990.

Rayman is a creation of Michel Ancel whose first adventures proceeded in 1996 on PlayStation in the play éponyme. The illustration comes from Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc .

Lara Croft appears in Tomb Raider in 1996. It is the first character videoludic appearing on the covers of the magazines of mode. It also forms part of the rare characters of video game adapted to the cinema. The illustration comes from the play Tomb Raider VI: the Angel of Darkness .

Spyro appears in 1998 on PlayStation.

Sims are not characters strictly speaking but entities which simulate the human ones in their life of the every day. Create in 1990 by Will Wright in the play éponyme, they obtain more success near the women that masculine, which is new in the video game. The illustration comes from the play Sims 2 .

History

The publication of this block of stamps is not an event pain-killer at the time of its exit because the video game at this time is an activity which then never illustrated postage stamps in France. Series limited to 3 million specimens, the block is sold as of its exit the quintuple of its purchase price on EBay (basic price with 8.50€ on the world biddings whereas at the same time, the post office sells the block 2,65€ in its offices).

Many people complained about the absence about Sonic, which for a long time was in the surveys in competition with Mario and Mickey for the title of the most known character among the children.

The images were provided by the editors of plays and generally show the characters in their most recent appearance at the time of the publication of the trailer block 2005 and not such as they were during their first appearance. Thus, for Link, one sees off an illustration of The Legend Zelda: Twilight Princess instead of that of The Legend off Zelda for example.

The booklet

The block is accompanied by the publication of a booklet of 60 pages to the format 241 X 263 mm sold 15€ named “History of the video games” carried out by the studio the Agency . The person in charge of the edition is Davis Foubert, the director of creation Olivier Dureau, the artistic director Emmanuel Bagot and the author Daniel Ichbiah.

The booklet, prefaced by Ken Kutaragi, presented as the father of the PlayStation summarizes the history of the video game and those of the heroes present on the block, speaks about the economic issues and the esthetic and technological revolutions occurred in the world of the video game. This information nevertheless is condensed and appears often inaccurate. The booklet contains many illustrations of video games as several exclusive interviews with major actors of this field who are, in the order where they appear, Shigeru Miyamoto, Will Wright (the father of Sims), Yves Guillemot (founder of Ubisoft) and Benoît Sokal (also author of cartoons, at the origin of plays such as Syberia or Amerzone).

External bond

Images of the stamps on the site of WNS

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