Do you buy game guides? Anyone collect game magazines, or game guides?

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yancakes:
I love ephemera but most places charge a premium for it. If I own a game I will buy a guide if I find it- but I don't want to spend more than a couple of dollars. I almost bought the guide for MtG Battlemage today, because I just bought the game today, but it was 8 dollars... I don't get magazines, though, not unless there's a very specific game on the cover or something. There are so many magazines out there that it's just a rabbit hole I don't want to go down.

topspot123:
Ok, can't get pics right now but here we go. I have steel shelves in my garage like these:

3 feet wide, five shelves. The short side is against the wall so I have mags filling every shelf on the front and back like a library stack.

Side one

Top shelf: Three feet plus of game guides, Tips and tricks magazine, and Tips and tricks code books. Almost half of the guides are official Nintendo Player's guides. The rest are mostly 'pennied' guides to games I own.

Second shelf: Sporadic issues of EGM Magazines starting Sept 92, ending Jan 09 (last issue), Then Spring 2010 (first issue of new run). Three feet of mags, but not a full run from 1992-2009.

Third shelf: OXM issues 001-137. I have every demo disc. Missing issue zero. So many of my paid magazine subscriptions were going under at the time that I stopped renewing. They are still being published.

Forth shelf: PSM 1-130; Official Playstation Magazine 1-8

Bottom shelf (both sides, plus a partial shelf elsewhere: Nintendo Power 001-285 (every issue)

Side Two

Top Shelf: Lots of various mags including Sega Visions, Game Players, Next Gen, Incite, Dreamcast Magazine (I have every demo), Video Game Trader, Video Game Collector, Game Developer.

Second Shelf: Various issues of GamePro beginning with Jan 93 and ending with Apr 04.

Third Shelf: Various issues if Game Informer starting Summer 92 and ending with issue 239 (I have more issues that haven't been filed yet).; Play magazine V6I3 through V9I1

Fourth Shelf: Various issues of Official U.S. Playstation Magazine from Oct 98 to Jan 07(I also have every demo disc from this magazine); Playstation: The official magazine from Aug 08-Holiday 12

So that's my list of magazines. It isn't really a growing collection anymore. I got the greatest percentage of these as a paying subscriber, but I am no longer a subscriber to any of the few magazines still being published.

gf78:
Like Bikingjahuty, I love game magazines. I used to have metric $hit-tons of them, but ended up throwing box after box of them out when they were just sitting out in my garage in the way. I had an entire run of EGM from 104-the last issue, each year of the Game Buyers Guide and a few extras that were variant covers. Had every Official Xbox magazine up until the 360 launch including the free promo issue.

Now, I pretty much only collect Game Informer and Walmart Gamecenter on a regular basis. I have 154-current on Game Informer and a sporadic collection of Gamecenter due to the local Wally World's never having every issue. >:( I also have various random magazines that I picked up because they had a feature story on a game I was interested in. I have a pretty long run of Official US PlayStation magazine.

I used to collect the hardcover strategy guides, but they cost so much money I gave up on it for the most part. I think I only have three strategy guides right now. Destiny hardcover, Final Fantasy Type-0 hardcover and paperback Indigo Prophecy. Destiny I bought because I was really psyched for that game. FF I bought because it was marked down to under 20 bucks. Indigo Prophecy came with the game from whoever I got the game from.

kashell:

--- Quote from: dreama1 on September 08, 2015, 07:27:18 pm ---Do you buy game guides or did you ever buy one in the past for a certain game? And why that game?

Anyone collect game magazines, or guide books? Show your collection.

--- End quote ---

Magazines? Hell no. Not anymore. I used to enjoy Game Player, Game Fan and Play. These days, I think game magazines are garbage.

Strategy guides are an entirely different story. I love collecting those. You know how some women like flipping through the pages of Cosmopolitan? That's how I feel about strategy guides. As long as I own the game for it, I'll pick it up if the price is right and just browse through it during a lazy day. Recently, I got the strategy guide for Evolution Worlds on the Game Cube. It's a game that doesn't need a guide, but I adore browsing through it, reading all of the hard work that the authors put into it and admiring the pictures.

Some personal favorite strategy guides are for Breath of Fire III, Xenogears, Tales of Destiny II (NA) and Atelier Iris 2.

gartcat:
I like the old Super Mario All-Stars Nintendo Power related guides, especially the Game Boy & the Super Gameboy one. Most recently I got the Super Mario Galaxy 2 guide because I didn't feel like finding all the damn green stars on my own & like not having to look at the computer guides. The only guide I have that I really needed was Metroid Prime, because I never would have found some of that stuff, and even with the guide I still didn't get %100 because I didn't scan everything :P

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