• @FlatFootFox@lemmy.world
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    81 year ago

    I recently went back and played the PC CD-ROM DOS game Star Trek - The Next Generation: A Final Unity. The GameFAQs guide for it was originally written in 1995 and had a CompuServ email address. 😱 The ancient texts certainly got me out of a tough spot with a floating platform puzzle.

      • @FlatFootFox@lemmy.world
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        21 year ago

        Without hyperbole it’s probably one of the best Star Trek games. Definitely in the Top 3. Full TNG voice cast, point-and-click adventure games are a good format for away missions and diplomacy, and it runs well in DOSBox!

  • @youngalfred@lemm.ee
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    51 year ago

    Made it through Legend of Zelda Ocarina of time on N64 because of these - I remember the Forest temple and Water temple being doozeys!

    • PhobosAnomaly
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      91 year ago

      I was just thinking “nah no way was it twenty years ago that I wrote mine”, but no - fifteen years ago.

      Time has flown. My faq has been lifted wholesale and improved upon in the main third party wikis for the game though. Happy days.

  • Elaine Cortez
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    211 year ago

    So many things are hard to find on Google now, like I’d type all of the relevant keywords but nothing actually relevant would come up except for some ancient GameFAQs document complete with the ASCII titles 😂

  • @alvvayson@lemmy.world
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    151 year ago

    I often do miss the internet of the old days.

    Hosting a modern day gamefaqs would cost $500 per year or so.

    I guess a wiki would be easier to offer version control, links and images for the author.

    Maybe that would be $1000 a year.

    • dohpaz42
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      81 year ago

      A small vps should cost no more than $10/mo, and should be enough to run a text-based site (with compression) reasonably well. Obviously the gotcha will be bandwidth, but you could subsidize that with donations.

      • @alvvayson@lemmy.world
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        21 year ago

        I’m accounting for a domain name and sufficient bandwidth.

        I figure 10 TB per month should be enough.

        The $500 is a conservative estimate.

        • @onion@feddit.de
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          21 year ago

          You could try hosting it at home on an old laptop and see how it goes

          That’s 100% more bandwidth than not doing it at all

  • @CptEnder@lemmy.world
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    Back in 97 my older sister got a both babe job at E3 and got extra tickets for me and my mom to take me. This is back when it was strictly a trade conference and not really open to the public. I was waiting in line for a new Gameboy game when a dude overhead me rambling to my mom about the Brady guides I loved to read so much back then (my mom is a patient saint haha) when a dude in line interrupted me and told my mom about his website that had free guides for all the new games online. My mom was pretty excited about free guides and he handed her his card which I looked at eagerly, it was Jeff Veasey, the creator of gamefaqs.com.

    I can’t tell you how much of my parents toner i burnt through over the years printing from that website, it was probably cheaper to just buy the guides haha. Still one of my all time favorite sites.

    Oh yeah that Gameboy game I was waiting to see was some new Japanese monster game called Pokemon.

    • @not_a_dog@lemmy.world
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      11 year ago

      I remember printing out a 100% guide for Ocarina of Time in the late 90s. IIRC, it came out to ~100 pages. Computer teacher was not happy, lol!

    • Druid
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      41 year ago

      Pokemon? Sounds interesting. What was it about?

  • @InvisibleShoe@lemmy.world
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    I used to have a giant one of these walkthrough guides printed out for Might and Magic 7 when I was a kid. Those guides were great. I miss Acromage :(

  • @LeroyJenkins@lemmy.world
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    81 year ago

    I remember I used to print these guides out on Epson inkjet printers in the early 2000s and wondered why I never had any ink left to print my homework out

  • @CheeryLBottom@lemmy.world
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    81 year ago

    I loved Dan Simpson’s walkthrough for all the BioWare/Black Isle Studios games like Baldur’s Gate, Icewind Dale, Planescape Torment, etc.

  • Funderpants
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    101 year ago

    How else would we finish ogre battle with all the cool units?

      • @Daft_ish@lemmy.world
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        Dingojellybean at hellokitty dot com

        The true hero of the day

        Edit:

        Version Last - Everything complete…all endings revealed, lists and bestiary are up. Also a format change that’s easier to read. (11/23/00)

        Minor Update - Luca’s mother bit was finally revised…after all these years of neglect from it. Numerous readers added this…sorry I couldn’t get to it sooner. (10/06/01)

        Man jellybean don’t be so hard on yourself