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The strangest 'Unauthorized guide' art out there
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terrisus
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The thing I wish, is that I had been able to get like every single item in every Power Catalog.
I got a number of things, but wish I could have gotten practically everything.
I had that guide as a kid, and this was my immediate impression. It was a limitless source of amusement at the time. I actually came into this thread with the intention of posting it along with that comment but WAY TO TAKE AWAY ALL MY FUN, HIVEMIND-GAF.
Did anybody else have this guide? Thing was huge! It was in tatters after my brother and I got done with it.
Yes I do! A friend in college had a perfect condition copy (ironically enough she didn't even own the game) and she gave it to me. Of course I had already beaten the game 6 years ago and had no real use for the guide but I like it as a collector's thing.
BTW this thread is fantastic!
Hahahaha, Guile for the win. Can this guy not draw eyeballs, or what?
Man that one brings back memories. I remember it, haha. I didn't realize how bad it looked at the time though.
Baron von Loathsome
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I had the first version of this guide, but I'm not sure it counts:
The first thing that came to my mind.
industrian
will gently cradle you as time slowly ticks away.
How could you screw up drawing an angry bird?
Considering copyright law and all that: Purposely.
In this case it's probably just a case of "oh shit, I got ten minutes to capitalise on this new game and write/draw stuff for a PDF guide."
See You Next Wednesday
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Oh man, this one too. Nintendo had some of the craziest print ads back then.
That was awesome, today's ads are generic cookie-cutter, bland crap that is forgettable the second you see it.
They are almost certainly supposed to be Paras.
Was it How to Win At Nintendo Games? I wasnt around in the 80s but that one wound up in my posession somehow (i think i bought it for like a quarter as a kid at some flea market or something)
Red Chocobo
Banned
How on earth can this be so detailed and yet anatomically incorrect in every way?
Sveitadurgur
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I'll just help myself to this one, thank you very much...Everything so far is avatar worthy. Zero effort rips:
Oh, so THAT's who the "Brady" of "BradyGames" is...
Yeah, that's the one. I had that book (still do, somewhere...). Picked it up at EBGames way back in the day for like 3$ on clearance.
The guy, Brady, is on a lot of pages, while other pages have photos of the room he was playing in as the background.
It's a good book, actually. I was able to 100% DKC with it's help. But it was definitely unprofessional, to say the least. Typos, formatting errors (text overlaps, cutting off), images cut off the sides of the pages.
I think the thing I liked most about the unauthorized guides was it felt like you were reading a conversation instead of a book, if that makes any sense.
RustyNails
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That zelda art. Links mullet is priceless.
terrisus
Member
I had one of the How to Win at Nintendo Games VHS tapes. Had Top Gun, Platoon, and some other stuff on it.
Spectral Entity
Member
I didn't know Fox and Sly Cooper shared universes! ;O
Fox McCloud drinking beer with a straw....
The little picture on the right is actually pretty cool.
I had this one. Read it cover to cover.
I also had the one withe the... cloud balls...?... in the OP.
Wow, that's cool. I can't believe they slipped up like that. You could have gone to your friends and been like "Nintendo's making a game where you're baby Mario riding Yoshi" and they would have thought you were crazy until it was announced and you could rub it in their faces.
terrisus
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Ah, here's the video I was thinking of. A different name than I had thought, but, ah well.
How to Score More Points on Nintendo Games
Yeah, I know, it's a bit of a different subject from the "strangest 'unauthorized guide' artwork" or the thread, but still funny.
I didn't really need the "tips," even at the time, I just loved anything about video games that I could find.
So, yes, this is what we did in the days before online video walkthroughs.
How to Score More Points on Nintendo Games
Yeah, I know, it's a bit of a different subject from the "strangest 'unauthorized guide' artwork" or the thread, but still funny.
I didn't really need the "tips," even at the time, I just loved anything about video games that I could find.
So, yes, this is what we did in the days before online video walkthroughs.
RalliArtEvo
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Did anybody else have this guide? Thing was huge! It was in tatters after my brother and I got done with it.
Yup, Still have mine in a box in the basement!
pizzapizza64
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Edit: No longer applicable.
fastford58
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Hahahaha, Guile for the win. Can this guy not draw eyeballs, or what?
They all look like they ate bad sushi for lunch.
shaowebb
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They all look like they ate bad sushi for lunch.
Street Farter?
