To the rapidly aging person reading this: GameFAQs is 30 years old, and people are sharing their memories of the venerable guide hub

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• early_riser@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I think wikis have taken over that niche, at least for more popular games.

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• WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Really sad to see your entire generation give in as it shrinks, and do nothing else with their lives. Next year, the youngest Millenial becomes 30.

  Goodbye, friends.

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• ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Using that site always made me feel more deep shame than any porn site.

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• blazeknave@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I still have NES guides up there!

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  • rodneylives@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Thank you for your service!

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• henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I remember finding online guides for the first time back in the days of dial up. It was incredible. So many games I had places where I was stuck and you just accepted that you have to figure it out or you just don’t continue the game.

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• rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Use the staple remover on the gopher

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    close microwave door

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• northernlights@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  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.

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• lath@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I remember when Gamefaqs was hated for stealing individual creators’ walkthroughs. Obviously, that didn’t pan out.

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  • antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Stealing, as in replacing/faking who the author was?

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    • lath@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      As i recall, the files were user submitted so it was more of a tacit consent of plagiarism.

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• HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I remember printing out guides from there back in the dialup period of my life.

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• PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Perhaps it’s because I grew up with adventure puzzle games and point’n’click games, but GameFAQs was always the nuclear option for me.

  I much preferred the Universal Hint System - an approach more suited to nudging you towards figuring out the answer for yourself.

  There’s no denying that it was (and is) a fantastic resource though. Hell, I’ve even written a guide myself. One of the last bastions of the 90s and 2000s WWW experience.

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• demonsword@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I still have a few save state hacking guides floating there :)

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• piranhaconda@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Fond memories of trying out every single glitch I could find for Pokemon Gens I and II. A lot were a load of crap, but there were a few good ones

  My favorite was the Pokemon cloning glitch in Gen 2. If you did it right, you could get all 3 starters and force your rival to have the starter of your choosing. It took a couple hours to do though, because it requires not saving until you’re allowed to catch your first Pokemon. And then repeating the process.

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