I always debate buying eBay lots of these bc I have a love for MMO guides as well. This is a good pitch I’m v keen.
You got me messed up. I’ll have to do a deep dive here too. Y’all killing me [positive]
We love extra inserts! I know records did this back in the day. My copy of Billion Dollar Babies has the dollar bill poster still lol. Love interactive physical media
Interesting, I like this. The original Baldur’s Gate guide does something similar. IDK if it’s efficient for something like BG1, but it is very fun.
Nice! That sounds like a great time. Dark cloud is a gap in my game knowledge. Is it a recommend and does the guide enhance the vibes?
I think its a pretty cool game, I haven’t played it in years but the soundtrack is great, the combat is pretty neat and there’s a lot of other parts to the gameplay that make it feel fresh and varied (fishing, golf, town building, mech building). From what I remember the strategy guide can really help you find out what the best weapons are, how to make them and where to get the materials. Also had some good tips for raising fish and town building. It was surprisingly thorough from what I recall.
Sold.
Keen tbh. RPGs usually have p good strategy guides. Unless, you know, they don’t. Looking at you most early Pokemon guides 
I remember having a few anthology guides for NES games growing up, one of which I particularly remember relying on for its Zelda dungeon maps in the days before the interwebs. The first strategy guide we had targeting a specific game was the one for SMB3 - what an awesome book! I remember my baby brother tearing the cover off and the front page having a stain from a spilled drink on it (hey, we were 90s kids). When that game released it was unlike any other and I don’t remember seeing a game-specific strategy guide before this one. I remember being so excited that my dad actually thought it worth buying, and spending so many hours sitting around the living room TV playing it together with my dad and siblings and exploring all the secrets and huge new world. So many times we set out to finish the game without warping and I distinctly remember often coming back from a break to find that someone had decided to go ahead and use a whistle 
One of those games we’d sometimes leave the system running to save our progress.
The only physical guide I ever got (or at least read?) as a kid was the official runescape guide. CGI skeletons on a cover are always welcome. The guide itself wasn’t that useful to a non-beginner (pre-wiki, there were some great fansites), but I was still excited about it as the only physical manifestation of something I spent so much time with.
hehehe, I have this one. It’s a cool one. I always think to make content with it, but that requires me to get into Runescape again. I do not the mental bandwidth for it atm 
This is a cool one. This is one of four, I think, actual numbered NintendoPower magazine releases before they spun off the strategy guide side.
I have the Final Fantasy one, and it’s gorgeous