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

[dreama1]

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.

[burningdoom]

I collect gaming magazines. Have a bit of Nintendo Power, Retro Gamer, GamePro, Electronic Gaming Monthly, Official PSM, Official Dreamcast, and Game Informer. I love going back to them because they are like a snapshot of the industry at that time. The games, the trends, the attitudes of gamers, etc.

I don't do the guides, though, just because I like the sense of discovery in a game, and a guide spoils all that.

I can't take any pics at the moment, I'm less than a week from moving, so a lot of that stuff is packed away right now.

[olly88]

I've got a bunch of magazine, mainly from the early and mid 2000s. The majority of them are Official Nintendo Magazine and GamesMaster.

[soera]

I have matching guides for almost every PS1 game I own. I also get guides for specific games I really enjoy such as Ni No Kuni.

I also have some magazines. I have the full Turbo Grafx magazine set and Im missing the first issue for the Challenge newsletter set.

[dreama1]

I have matching guides for almost every PS1 game I own. I also get guides for specific games I really enjoy such as Ni No Kuni.

I also have some magazines. I have the full Turbo Grafx magazine set and Im missing the first issue for the Challenge newsletter set.

This isn't added to the site?

[dstone]

I have a good handful of Sega Visions magazines and the majority of the Official Dreamcast Magazine.  I'd like to complete both of those sets at some point. Always loved flipping through those.

[redblaze57]

I'll mainly pick up guides for RPG's and the Legend of Zelda games. Just because of the amount of stuff in an RPG I think that justifies the purchase, and I find th he maps helpful. Zelda... well mainly because it's Zelda it's kind of the collector in me if I get a Zelda game I also get the strategy guide to go with it.

[soera]

I have matching guides for almost every PS1 game I own. I also get guides for specific games I really enjoy such as Ni No Kuni.

I also have some magazines. I have the full Turbo Grafx magazine set and Im missing the first issue for the Challenge newsletter set.

This isn't added to the site?

http://vgcollect.com/Soera/magazine

[dreama1]

I have matching guides for almost every PS1 game I own. I also get guides for specific games I really enjoy such as Ni No Kuni.

I also have some magazines. I have the full Turbo Grafx magazine set and Im missing the first issue for the Challenge newsletter set.

This isn't added to the site?

http://vgcollect.com/Soera/magazine

wow you got a lot of pc engine mags but you only got 1 turbo game lol.

[aliensstudios]

I  have some game guides but I don't really collect them. I have a meager collection of about four years worth of Nintendo Power, I think 2005-2008? I stopped subscribing because I was entering High School and the magazine just wasn't that good anymore. I'm also interested in seeing someones collection

[stealthrush]

Video Game Magazine Collection (1988-2005)

Growing up I used to obtain individual video game magazines at the the local supermarket while my parents shopped for groceries. Usually buying 2-3 a month for years. I still have all of them actually, at one point in time I was possessed  in creating POGZ out of the pages of some of them unfortunately. Also when the video rental store Blockbuster was closing in my area (not the nation-wide closure) the employee gave me a stack of strategy guides mostly for Nintendo 64 games, eventually sold majority of those.

I also have a GamePro PlayStation encyclopedia which was a double-issue giving brief reviews of every North American released PlayStation game at the time.

Also on my magazine collection link; I've stacked multiple magazines on top of each other describing each of them in a drop-down message but it seems flickr has removed that option. 

Around 2010ish I supported GameFan return to magazine format and bought the first issue, and also occasionally bought Retro Gamer (UK) magazines 2012-13.

[dashv]

I've recently gotten into collecting guides for games I like.

I don't use them to beat the game. Instead I use them to see what I missed on my play through or to take a "walk down memory lane" for a game I've already beaten.

[kam1kaz3nl77]

I used to buy the Official Nintendo Magazine when they were released, but hard to get them at the end (@ Dutch book stores). Subscribed to Power Unlimited, since 2001 (Dutch gaming magazine)

I have about 65 guides of games that i like and still 17 on the wishlist

[matimo]

I collect game guides for games i happen to play or own, but i don't actively go out and buy any...as i can get the same info on the net for free. They're just a neat thing to pick up if i find them.

[tafk]

All written media about games is really cool. I totally collect it when I find it.