tidaldreams | 654 Posted August 8, 2020 Share Posted August 8, 2020 I have a bunch of old RPG guides around the PS1/PS2 era that I used to collect, mostly for the artwork. My favorite are those old Working Design hardcovers that were much smaller in size (but very thick) than typical guides. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanooki | 4,930 Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 I recently just added two more guides into my collection. Fire Emblem Shadow Dragon and yesterday locally got the original Pokemon Nintendo players guide for red/blue totally intact. I love that old late 80s early mid-90s era Nintendo guide stuff. That pokemon guide seems to have a lot of that early one off never mainstream used hand drawn images of all the pokemon which is fun to see. I think some of the sprite art looks wrong, maybe late beta stuff slipped in that wasn't in game as it looks off. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TDIRunner | 2,727 Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 I don't actively collect strategy guides, but I will definitely pick them up if I see them for cheap. But usually I'm only interested in guides for games that I have a lot of good memories for. I especially like finding the fancy hardbound strategy guides. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aguy | 771 Posted August 15, 2020 Share Posted August 15, 2020 Speaking of randomly priced guides, I just noticed Witcher 3 Complete Collector's Edition is going for $150+ used ($250+ new). Kind of ironic since the game is so popular, abundant, and cheap. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tidaldreams | 654 Posted August 20, 2020 Share Posted August 20, 2020 On 8/10/2020 at 9:55 PM, Tanooki said: I recently just added two more guides into my collection. Fire Emblem Shadow Dragon and yesterday locally got the original Pokemon Nintendo players guide for red/blue totally intact. I love that old late 80s early mid-90s era Nintendo guide stuff. That pokemon guide seems to have a lot of that early one off never mainstream used hand drawn images of all the pokemon which is fun to see. I think some of the sprite art looks wrong, maybe late beta stuff slipped in that wasn't in game as it looks off. Do you own any of the Versus Books guides? Those were the shit back then, they published all of the glitches like Missing No etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanooki | 4,930 Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 On 8/20/2020 at 3:50 PM, tidaldreams said: Do you own any of the Versus Books guides? Those were the shit back then, they published all of the glitches like Missing No etc. Yeah one: Pokemon Special Edition Pikachu Edition Official Perfect Guide Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SayakaMaizono | 5 Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 I have a few, certainly. I'd say I only picked up most of them because they were too cheap to ignore. They're not my primary thing to collect, that would be artbooks. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tidaldreams | 654 Posted August 23, 2020 Share Posted August 23, 2020 For many years, Best Buy used to penny out their guides after a certain amount of time had passed. I picked up a lot that way for 1 cent each. Most of them are pretty common, but still nice to look at. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pendragonx | 117 Posted August 23, 2020 Share Posted August 23, 2020 (edited) I've started to collect a couple of them,.. I find they help my motivation a lot with these really long RPG's .. so that I don't get stuck and then just give up Speaking of... Does anyone know if they ever made a strategy guide for the original Suikoden for the PS1? All I seem to see on ebay are the games after the first.... Edited August 24, 2020 by Pendragonx image! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBiRD | 137 Posted August 24, 2020 Share Posted August 24, 2020 (edited) I am. Mainly the SNES, RPG/adventure for now... may go for the complete SNES guide library someday.. BTW, presently looking for these guide : lufia 2 ($$$ I know!) , Brain Lord both variant, Secret of evermore (the variant I doesn't own), Tecmo Secret of the Stars. Edited August 24, 2020 by TheBiRD 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanooki | 4,930 Posted August 24, 2020 Share Posted August 24, 2020 Wow now that's nice. One of these days, maybe now?, I should lay out all those I have and take pics, but it would take some time as the list of what I have isn't short. 43 official Nintendo made guides (newest being the pokemon sword/shield and 'Go' pika/eevee before that for switch. 27 more official prima and otherwise strategy guides. 12 other gaming related books (worlds of power, best of nintendo comics and super mario hardbacks, etc.) Almost all of it have great to excellent condition going on so they'd look good on camera, I don't keep beaters if it's avoidable. That one up there, lost out a couple times on that but would be nice to see that FFMQ guide in hand even if it is an easy game as I enjoy the period maps, info, stats etc on a title too. If you're curious: http://tanooki.byethost16.com/strategyguides.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Rothchild | 9,510 Editorials Team · Posted August 25, 2020 Share Posted August 25, 2020 Finally got them all out. First time ever: 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acidjaguar | 258 Posted August 25, 2020 Share Posted August 25, 2020 On 8/23/2020 at 5:55 PM, Pendragonx said: I've started to collect a couple of them,.. I find they help my motivation a lot with these really long RPG's .. so that I don't get stuck and then just give up Speaking of... Does anyone know if they ever made a strategy guide for the original Suikoden for the PS1? All I seem to see on ebay are the games after the first.... There is a guide for Suikoden on PS1 ... typically sells for around $70. One up right now for $100/obo: https://www.ebay.com/itm/274469885867 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acidjaguar | 258 Posted August 25, 2020 Share Posted August 25, 2020 9 hours ago, Reed Rothchild said: Finally got them all out. First time ever: Looks great man! You're whole setup is really coming together... I'll have to come check it out in the flesh here one day sooner than later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acidjaguar | 258 Posted August 25, 2020 Share Posted August 25, 2020 Glad to see this thread getting some appropriate love! Guides and paper are IMO such a great alternative to game collecting. Who doesn't love to thumb through picture books of your favorite game.... right? haha I recently was able to add a shelving unit and bring all the children together to one displayed home finally. Have a few more file organizers coming to help keep the uniformity throughout as my OCDness gets a little whacky. Everything I've got is separated by either platform or publisher as follows: NES / GAMEBOY WATA GRADED SNES / SANDWICH ISLANDS ZELDA GAME COUNSELOR / MEDIA KITS / INTERNAL NOA SNES GAMEFAN / VERSUS / DIMENSION / Q64 NEWSLETTERS / GB / PRESS KITS SEGA / N64 / NINTENDO PLAYERS GUIDES GAME PLAYERS / NINTENDO POWER NINTENDO POWER NINTENDO POWER NES / CYOA BOOKS SUPPLEMENTALS / WORKING DESIGNS / VIDIOT BOY / TURBO IMPORTS / PC Enjoy! It's been a very long time in the making. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferris Bueller | 495 Posted August 25, 2020 Share Posted August 25, 2020 (edited) Pic doesn't show up for me. @Gloves This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below. <Error> <Code>AccessDenied</Code> <Message>Access Denied</Message> <RequestId>6C17CB25B7256B2B</RequestId> <HostId> 7ar4rpmrPk1SQtoFMFs4pY8FMRaFAJ6WJPUqK2O5Pi5iRtSdaOqZjY/4Tbw/Gi2/tokdln94kBk= </HostId> </Error> Edited August 25, 2020 by Ferris Bueller Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gloves | 11,761 Administrator · Posted August 25, 2020 Share Posted August 25, 2020 3 minutes ago, Ferris Bueller said: Pic doesn't show up for me. @Gloves This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below. <Error> <Code>AccessDenied</Code> <Message>Access Denied</Message> <RequestId>6C17CB25B7256B2B</RequestId> <HostId> 7ar4rpmrPk1SQtoFMFs4pY8FMRaFAJ6WJPUqK2O5Pi5iRtSdaOqZjY/4Tbw/Gi2/tokdln94kBk= </HostId> </Error> He'll have to re-upload, it doesn't seem to exist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanooki | 4,930 Posted August 26, 2020 Share Posted August 26, 2020 (edited) Since Reed bothered I won't be lazy about it, just took these. Enjoy. Switch Pokemon (Sword/Shield and Let's Go! aren't shown as I'm letting my kid use them on her Switch time.) A great many of these have been locally sourced over the years a few kept over the time too. I do have the Diablo 2 guide, it's just inside the battle chest box still. Edited August 26, 2020 by Tanooki 2 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Rothchild | 9,510 Editorials Team · Posted August 26, 2020 Share Posted August 26, 2020 I covet so many things I'm seeing 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanooki | 4,930 Posted August 26, 2020 Share Posted August 26, 2020 I feel the same there's a solid list of console, but also some old PC stuff there too. And I know well from some guides, the old early 90s later 80s PC guides were usually fairly awesome as they'd be like story driven novels with the tips you needed in the sentences, but then other parts would have the spelled out things and maps, tables so you didn't miss it. I have one I'm selling soon that's for Roger Wilco 1-4 that's like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScaryD | 237 Posted September 2, 2020 Share Posted September 2, 2020 I love the original Nintendo Strategy guides and try to pick them up whenever I run across them. BTW some great pics in this thread. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny | 37 Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 On 7/23/2020 at 6:26 PM, Bighab said: I love collecting strategy guides. Some of my favorites. The Landstalker one is a Japanese guide. I'm curious if anyone else has other import guides and how useful they are. That Shining Force guide is awesome 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VGCollectaholic | 111 Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 I love having a bookshelf of game guides in my gameplay room. I used to pick up guides all the time when they would hit clearance at GS or on Amazon. A bunch came from the old "lowballs" that CAG used to host back in the day. Here's what I have on the bookcase at the moment. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phart010 | 1,705 Posted July 8, 2021 Share Posted July 8, 2021 Never really thought of myself as a strategy guide collector but somehow I’ve managed to accumulate several dozen of them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigerwolf | 79 Posted July 17, 2021 Share Posted July 17, 2021 Since my goal is to build a Koei Collection, I have a healthy number of their Japanese strategy guides. I also have a few non-Koei ones for games like Destiny of an Emperor 2, Secret of Mana, Final Fantasy VI, etc. The super cool thing about the Japanese guides is that most of them are in that cool 'mook' format. Colorful like a magazine but the smaller form factor of a paperback novel. Like the one I attached for Romance of the Three Kingdoms 2 They're the best. Maybe one day I'll actually learn to read Japanese 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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