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The people who made these back in the day are heroes (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] v4ld1z 4 points 7 months ago

Pokemon? Sounds interesting. What was it about?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months 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!