When I was 14, I got in a flame war with another kid in the pokemon forum. I dropped a “What do you know? You’re probably 12!” He replied “Yeah, I’m 12. This is a pokemon forum. What are you doing here?”
I felt so thoroughly burned that I stayed out of internet arguments as much as possible from that point forward. A real valuable lesson early on. Thanks, GameFAQs!
Funny, dunking on some old dude back in the day got me hooked on internet arguments.
I printed out a list of gaps in THPS2 from GameFAQs. I didn’t realize it was 80 pages. My mom was really upset. I think I got every single one though.
Honestly been one of the most useful websites for me over the years.
I was around 8-9 when i was stuck in Sam & Max: Hit the Road for a long time. Restarted the game and got stuck on the same spot. Finally caved and asked my brother how proceed, at which point he showed me a walkthrough. It blew my mind that that was a thing!
Which spot were you stuck on?
I was never able to figure out that you had to put a magnet onto the hand grabber, and then put the hand grabber into the giant ball of yarn to grab something.
I remember that part! Typical point n click moon logic.
Think there was an extra step to put the hand on the broken grabber too right?
Maybe? It’s been about 17 years since my last play through. Maybe I should get it running on my steam deck!
Indeed you should. Scummvm worked really well for monkey Island 3 on it for me
I was stuck on getting the light bulb from the fireplace in their office for far longer than I care to admit. Thanks for the help GaneFAQs.
I don’t remember that part! Been a long, long time. Wish it had been remastered like Day of the Tentacle was.
I loaded it onto my Steam Deck not too long ago and my 19 year old son had a blast watching me play it. A few of the jokes did not age well, but over all it is amazing still.
What are some jokes that didn’t age well? That’s always a thing when playing 90s comedy games. Probably not many games worse than the Leisure Suit Larry series!
What are some jokes that didn’t age well?
Some of the stuff with the conjoined twins. And how they talk about Trixie.
I’ll have to watch a playthrough again to jog my memory.
I feel like I could… like I could… like I could… TAKE ON THE WORLD!!
I don’t think you should drink that…
Before the Internet got social media, we had the GameFAQs voting thing; you’d get head to head popularity contests of coolest characters. Cloud always won, but it was nice to check daily to see who was most popular.
I still use GameFAQs, though. Even after the buyout, the guides are important to those of us RetroAchevement-ing through some older titles.
So I basically started using it the year it was made. I am 40 now, and I was about 10 when I originally found it. Cool.
I remember spending hours printing an entire walkthrough for Secret of Mana on my dot matrix printer back in the day. Got me all the way through to the final boss; but then the SNES itself died mid battle. 😩
RIP Kolanaki’s SNES
I loved Secret of Mana and on several playthroughs, the hardest boss, for me, has always been that damn tiger in the witch’s castle. When it zig-zagged like a spike ball, the chances of getting wiped were huge. One hit = unconscious.
Boy the KOTOR gamefaq guides I had bookmarked were something else. I would have missed so much of the games without them. Instead, I got to see every single possible dialogue line in the games.
I would take the txt guides for RPG games and print them on the laser printers at my high school.
I saved paper by printing them 4 sheets to a single page.
i’d strip out useful information into my own guides. never published any, but they are useful
Escuse me, but I’m aging at just the right rate. Not rapidly, not slowly, but exactly as the universe planned it as we hurtle through time and space on our planet size space ship.
Use the staple remover on the gopher
close microwave door
I still have a few save state hacking guides floating there :)
- I need help with Final Fantasy 7.
Buddy recommends this site I’ve not heard about, Game Facks.
It did not contain game FAQ’s.
Also, whitehouse.com, as was the style of the time.
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Got banned from LUE by posting this
I remember when Gamefaqs was hated for stealing individual creators’ walkthroughs. Obviously, that didn’t pan out.
Stealing, as in replacing/faking who the author was?
As i recall, the files were user submitted so it was more of a tacit consent of plagiarism.
