Poll of the Day > How did you find gamefaqs?

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I remember a gamestop employee telling me to use this site instead of gamewinners.com for cheat codes back when Kingdom Hearts 2 came out. Good times.

My brother introduced it to me near the turn of the twenty-first century, while trying to find the super password for the original Crash Bandicoot.
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Needed a move list for a game.. friends bro suggested it, but didnt register for a while after that
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I was looking on some search engine for a xenogears walkthrough

cheats or faqs, was probably using the site for at least a year, before I needed to use the boards to ask a question about something
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Probably looking up a walkthrough for a game. Also the cheats section wasn't a mess and full of stuff that didn't work.
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My sister introduced me to it when I first found out about cheat codes and such, but I didn't make an account until Resident Evil 4 came out for the Ps2. Thus the name.
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Looking for a place to talk about Monster Hunter.
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No idea. A friend probably mentioned it in regards to a N64 game.
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I think I needed a walkthrough or something. But I didnt register for a few years... or longer...
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I don't remember. I was either looking up stuff for SNES games or when FF7 was first released.
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Google searched how to solve that block puzzle in Kirby 64. You know the one.

Edit: This was also in 2007 or 2008

trodi_911 posted...

Probably looking up a walkthrough for a game. Also the cheats section wasn't a mess and full of stuff that didn't work.

I miss those days. You don't know how many times I tried putting in fake codes or doing stupid shit like hitting concrete 3 times in a row in Animal Crossing to see Nook in pajamas or other crazy shit. Master Hand in Smash 64 was another great one.

I always used to use gamewinners for cheats and FAQs, even though it sent me here for the FAQs. After a while, mainly once cheats started phasing out, I figured I should just come to the source all the FAQs came from. And I've been here ever since.

GanglyKhan posted...

You know the one.

You mean the one where you have Kirby float up in a room with a large rectangle of blocks suspended in mid-air, and have him burp it to sculp it so it resembles an object of some sort?
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It was around '98 or '99 I think, when I was in high school. My school was poor and didn't have many computers, and I didn't have one either. The only people allowed to use the computers were the ones taking a specific class. Eventually though they replaced those computers and moved the old ones into the library for anyone to use. I often ended up with a free period, so I'd spend the time in the library, and since I could now use the computers, I started looking up game related info. Which led me here, I think I was looking up Pokemon info.

I didn't make an account until several years later though, and then for the longest time I stuck to the gaming boards and was afraid of the social boards. lol
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I used it for FAQs. I never used the boards until somebody on the old Capcom BBS linked to a topic here (MvC for Dreamcast related).
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LinkPizza posted...

I think I needed a walkthrough or something. But I didnt register for a few years... or longer...

This. Then I discovered the Top10s, which led me to some new games. I finally registered so I could write contributions.
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I discovered GameFAQs while searching for some new DK64 and F-Zero X discussion.
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Webcrawler lead me here while searching for a game Guide in the late 90's. Several years went by before I actually made an account here though. I had no interest in talking to strangers about video games on the Internet until Fable was announced. What a huge disappointment that turned out to be.


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Back in the late 90s my friend used it for FF games. I never joined until this account.
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I was searching for cheat codes (rare candy cheat specifically) for the original Pokmon, and the first site to come up was this one.

This was way back in 1996
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Most likely got here in the late '90s in search of one FAQ or another, but I joined the forums in '02 to chat with the Capcom VS. SNK 2 community at the time. Good memories.
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EclairReturns posted...

GanglyKhan posted...

You know the one.

You mean the one where you have Kirby float up in a room with a large rectangle of blocks suspended in mid-air, and have him burp it to sculp it so it resembles an object of some sort?

Yup! That was it. It was the only Crystal Shard I was missing. I knew what it wanted me to do, I just couldn't figure out the shapes exactly as needed.

I was on a quest for the up up down down code...I entered a man cave and soon I found myself lost. I was just about to give up hope and then a frog king appeared...

FROG KING: trentpac, you must find your way out of this place, or you will surely die. This way has been closed off by the great sphinctor. To escape, you must journey up to the dark reaches of the intestine and pass the stomach! Who am I? Just a friend. Heed my words, trentpac. Your time is running out. Make for the large intestine. Start straight ahead.

SONG: A great adventure is waiting for you ahead. Hurry onward trentpac for you will soon be dead. The journey before you may be long and filled with woe. But you must escape the man's ass, or your tale can't be told.

Trentpac, trentpac, trentpac, trentpac!

Trentpac's journey is distant, far and fast! To find his way out of a man's ass! The road ahead is filled with danger and fright! But push onward trentpac with all of your might!

FROG KING: trentpac, you are coming to the enterance off the small intestine! There you must seek out The Sparrow Prince!

SONG: The Sparrow Prince lies somewhere way up ahead! Don't look back trentpac, or you will soon be dead! trentpac, trentpac the time is growing late. Slow down now, and seal your fate.

*Sparrow Prince Appears*

SPARROW PRINCE: I am The Sparrow Prince! Long has my spirit been trapped within this place! Before you lies the maze of the small intestine. One path leads to the stomach, the other to certain doom. Take with you this helmet and torch. Let them be your guide! *Gives trentpac a helmet with a torch*

SONG: Take the magic helmet-torch to help you light the way, there's still alot of ground to cross inside the man today! Ahead of you lies adventure, and your stregnth still lies within! Freedom from the ass of doom is the treasure you will win!

Trentpac came to the stomach now. 'neath the dance of the lungs and heart.

*Catata Fish appears*

CATATA FISH: You have chosen your path wisely trentpac! I am the Catata Fish!

DEEP SONG: Catata fish of the stomach's cove!

CATATA FISH: If you answer this riddle, the esophogus will let you pass.

DEEP SONG: Catata fish's riddle will soon be told!
Later...
FROG KING: Hang on trentpac! You solved the Catata Fish's riddle, your trials are nearly through!

CjayC: *coughs out trentpac*

SONG: trentpac has made it out, his tale is nearly through!

CATATA FISH: Great job, trentpac!

SPARROW PRINCE: Thanks to you we are all free!

FROG KING: But your adventures are just beginning! *Takes off trentpac's helmet* You are no ordinary gerbil trentpac, you are the Gerbil King! *Puts crown on trentpac's head*

ALL ANIMAL GHOSTS: All hail the gerbil king!

SONG: Now that you're the Gerbil king has more adventures to go on! Fly away to faraway lands and to the setting sun! So many enemies and battles yet to fight! For trentpac the Gerbil King's tale is told throughout the night!

Trentpac the Gerbil King!

Or something like that...I hit my head this morning.
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Sometime around 2000 or 2001, I was searching for Earthworm Jim 2 passwords on Gamewinners, and found a link to GameFAQs on the site.
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FF8 Card Faq.
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I used to post on a message board called VGF, and I think I found it because people there mentioned it.
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Probably Altavista.
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I am pretty sure it was Chrono Trigger stuff that brought me here first
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One of my friends from high school was an FAQ writer and introduced me to it. I didn't actually create an account until a couple years later though.
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Who even knows it had to be close to 20 years ago

I was probably looking for a diablo guide or something
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I had a account in 99 I think, I remember hanging around the Dreamcast boards and also used gametz.com (game trading zone) back then.

Gamefaqs was always nice back then before youtube to see all the differences with import versions. I honestly don't remember what faqs I actually ever really needed, mainly enjoyed the game discussion.

Searching for codes to Mortal Kombat Gold.
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Walkthroughs on GameFAQs were the shit before YouTube became a huge thing.
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RedPixel posted...

Walkthroughs on GameFAQs were the shit before YouTube became a huge thing.

The walkthroughs on YouTube are generally shit now with people artificially extending the videos just to get it past the 10 minute mark.
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Googled something and this site had the first result for whatever that was. Id say its impressive that a lot remember what specific thing they were looking for but its probably just my godawful memory thats exceptional.
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I needed a cheat code for Dragon Ball Z: Buu's Fury for the GBA & now here we are.
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Revelation34 posted...

The walkthroughs on YouTube are generally s*** now with people artificially extending the videos just to get it past the 10 minute mark.

This. So much. The visual aspect is nice. So you can see exactly where on the map that chest is located and how to actually get down to that ledge. But I'd much rather have a text guide with two pictures. One of the map and one of the cliff fave for reference than have to skip around in a video trying to get past all the extra yammering. I do manage to find some good video guides here and there that just get to the point and show me the info I want with the extra crap though.
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Bugmeat posted...

This. So much. The visual aspect is nice. So you can see exactly where on the map that chest is located and how to actually get down to that ledge. But I'd much rather have a text guide with two pictures. One of the map and one of the cliff fave for reference than have to skip around in a video trying to get past all the extra yammering. I do manage to find some good video guides here and there that just get to the point and show me the info I want with the extra crap though.

Yeah that's it. I forgot about the people that give commentary or add music when it's just supposed to be a walkthrough and not a let's play. Also I had problems following a video once because they went way too fast to follow the moves required. Since it was a long ass sequence I kept losing and was lucky to find an actual written guide.
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Looking for Duke Nukem 3D cheats back in the late 90's. Gamewinners just didn't quite cut it.
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