I’m on a similar marathon dude. Trying to start from the SNES era first then making my way up, and it’s taking everything to not jump straight into the PS1 haha.
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Good luck! I played Trials of Mana before this and that game looked so good I just wanted to jump into the next gen!
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Been going through some of my old stuff and found this. I had my dad print this strategy guide out for me at his job literally 20 years ago.
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I love finding stuff like that in old big box games. Have found some Usenet guides, faq printouts, magazine clippings. Real time capsule stuff.
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Me and the neighbour kid got to visit his dads university as a kid, we printed out strategy guides and cheats all day long to bring home. Good times!
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Wow this brings back memories of my own, I remember printing out guides for RPGs and bringing them to school to discuss with a friend who was playing them too.
I still have a guide to price and rarity (plus brief review by the author) of the NES library I printed out at my office in probably 2005. It’s VERY interesting to see the prices and impressions from that time. I wish I would have looked at it more closely at the time and gone after more of the hidden gems for dirt cheap. The guy had a good handle on rarity and gameplay. But I was really only after the games I was already familiar with and knew I wanted.
I remember being nervous printing it out because it’s like an inch thick and it was an open office setting … no one noticed, though.
I’ll try to take a pic and post sometime soon. I’m really glad I never tossed it.
I printed out an entire breeding guide to Dragon Warrior Monsters on GBC. I hole-punched it and put it into a 3 ring binder. It was a great guide!
Actually, I can’t remember where I got that guide. And I definitely no longer have the hard copy. It was cool though.
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I did this too!
I remember printing an entire 100pg+ user made walkthrough for FFVII when I originally played it upon release.
One of the first guides I printed in the early 2000s was for Samurai Shodown rpg on Saturn. I will have to see if I still have it. That game was great.
I photocopied the entire Nintendo history book Game Over when I had it on loan from my college library. I couldn’t find a copy to buy as it was 1994 and before internet shopping was really a thing.
I did buy a new copy of the second edition when I found it at EB a few years later.
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I haven’t read the book(s), but just looking at the differences between the two covers I have to wonder if it wasn’t Mario who matured, but David Sheff.
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The original title was just bait to get non-gamer parents to buy it.
No kidding … and that zombie eyed kid starting at the screen, LOL
Anyone in here seen a controller like this before? I came across it in a pawn shop for $5 and can’t seem to find much info on it.
It’s black with a sort of tiny fleck in the plastic, not transparent at all.
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I wonder if this is a Net Yaroze Controller
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But the model number is not DTL-H3010, or was that for the japanese model only? Maybe this is an NA one? I dunno…
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It’s the “Diamond Black” controller, bundled with the Yaroze and sold seperately (SCPH-1080B), the only difference between the two is the light grey plug on the retail version.
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