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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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Submitted ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Agent_Karyo@piefed.world⁩ to ⁨games@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/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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  • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • northernlights@lemmy.today ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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  • blazeknave@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I still have NES guides up there!

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    • rodneylives@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Thank you for your service!

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  • rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Use the staple remover on the gopher

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      close microwave door

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  • henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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  • lath@piefed.social ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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      • lath@piefed.social ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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