I seem to remember a GBC game by that name or something like it actually coming out. Maybe I just read too much Nintendo Power in those days and just THINK the game actually came out.
Benjamin Franklin, who wrote that "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
I don't know about you, but I don't feel any safer than I did on September 10, 2001, or September 12, or whatever day you choose to pick. And yet Ashcroft seems intent on tearing down the Constitution piece by piece.
I think most everything has been covered. Online FAQs have the limitation of (a) being text-only, and (b) not being able to start the FAQ until they get the game in stores. However, they have the advantage of being EXTREMELY easy to update. As a corollary, if it's a good writer, mistakes will be corrected fairly quickly.
I think some of the posters here have forgotten the REAL reason game guides won't die out any time soon: tech savvy. When I was 6 years old, I wouldn't know enough about the Internet to go looking for a game guide, especially if I wasn't very adept at finding things on the Internet.
Game guide publishers still have two very big things going for them: impulse buyers (read: parents and small children) and low-tech appeal. Searching through a 100KB+ text document for one paragraph can be rather difficult for some. (I should know, people STILL send me questions about my Oracle of Ages guide that could be answered with a simple copy/paste.) But flipping through 108 pages is comparatively easier when you can look for the big section headings.
In other words, online game guides are like Linux. Sure, they're free and (sometimes) better than the expensive stuff, but it scares off a lot of people. That's why Windows... er, game guide publishers have nothing to worry about.
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I seem to remember a GBC game by that name or something like it actually coming out. Maybe I just read too much Nintendo Power in those days and just THINK the game actually came out.
Benjamin Franklin, who wrote that "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
I don't know about you, but I don't feel any safer than I did on September 10, 2001, or September 12, or whatever day you choose to pick. And yet Ashcroft seems intent on tearing down the Constitution piece by piece.
I think most everything has been covered. Online FAQs have the limitation of (a) being text-only, and (b) not being able to start the FAQ until they get the game in stores. However, they have the advantage of being EXTREMELY easy to update. As a corollary, if it's a good writer, mistakes will be corrected fairly quickly.
I think some of the posters here have forgotten the REAL reason game guides won't die out any time soon: tech savvy. When I was 6 years old, I wouldn't know enough about the Internet to go looking for a game guide, especially if I wasn't very adept at finding things on the Internet.
Game guide publishers still have two very big things going for them: impulse buyers (read: parents and small children) and low-tech appeal. Searching through a 100KB+ text document for one paragraph can be rather difficult for some. (I should know, people STILL send me questions about my Oracle of Ages guide that could be answered with a simple copy/paste.) But flipping through 108 pages is comparatively easier when you can look for the big section headings.
In other words, online game guides are like Linux. Sure, they're free and (sometimes) better than the expensive stuff, but it scares off a lot of people. That's why Windows... er, game guide publishers have nothing to worry about.