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Final Fantasy VII Unofficial Strategies & Secrets for the PC

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An unofficial, text-only strategy guide produced specifically for the PC edition of Final Fantasy VII. This is a pretty odd beast, considering virtually every other FF7 guide on the market is both full colour and packed with screenshots. Even though this was meant for the PC release, there's really nothing preventing you from using it to play through the PS1 version, since they're almost entirely identical.

Not a particularly common guide, but also not a terribly interesting one thanks to its bland presentation. Ronald Wartow is a good writer though, and even if you've played through the console version many times, you may enjoy reading his take on the adventure. :)

Enjoy! ❤️

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MSR1701

Neat, had not heard of this one!  A Text-heavy guide for an RPG reminds me of the ol' Super Mario RPG Guide I had back in the 90s that I was using...  sadly, that guide has been lost to time.

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MSR1701

Ah, a Sybex guide!  I have a few of their guides in my collection, specifically SimCity 2000, Civilization and Age of Empires II.  Getting the feeling that they specialized in PC guides...

Overall, they are usually good with Guides, though it is hilarious reading thru the guides for the different install methods for the games of the 90s (also brings back very...interesting memories of 90s computing.  Such as watching my Dad install a Windows update onto our family PC from a stack of disks, while he read Wheel of Time... ;))

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5 hours ago, MSR1701 said:

Ah, a Sybex guide!  I have a few of their guides in my collection, specifically SimCity 2000, Civilization and Age of Empires II.  Getting the feeling that they specialized in PC guides...

Overall, they are usually good with Guides, though it is hilarious reading thru the guides for the different install methods for the games of the 90s (also brings back very...interesting memories of 90s computing.  Such as watching my Dad install a Windows update onto our family PC from a stack of disks, while he read Wheel of Time... ;))

Sybex, as far as I can tell, was an "all PCs, all the time" publisher. Everything I have of theirs relates to PC gaming in some way. They did level design handbooks for Quake, Duke Nukem, and Doom, along with guides for other PC games like Space Station Simulator, Obsidian, and the like. I love their stuff. :)

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WraithTDK

That's consistent with my memories, too. I had their Duke Nukem and Quake guides. If I recall correctly they used to include CD-ROMS attached to the back cover.

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3 hours ago, WraithTDK said:

That's consistent with my memories, too. I had their Duke Nukem and Quake guides. If I recall correctly they used to include CD-ROMS attached to the back cover.

They did for a lot of them, though not all. This one, for instance, had no disc. But their different level design guides usually came with the software and level templates included in the books, extra levels from the internet, and other goodies. :)

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miketheratguy

I actually miss the golden era of strategy guides, when I could walk into a Waldenbooks (remember those? Remember bookstores in malls? ......Remember malls?) and see 30 totally random books of totally random quality for all the big new games, including boring all-text ones like these.

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