Any idea why Consumer Guide - Strategies for Nintendo Games would be missing?

[bombatomba]

Got a nostalgia hankering at work today and thought I'd have gander at a few pages of Consumer Guide - Strategies for Nintendo Games, but was unable to find it.  I did see the cover image in the Strategy Guide database by Areala, but it wasn't the one I remember (and it is just the cover image). 

After I got home I plugged one of my DH drives I keep and found what I (kinda) knew was there: Consumer Guide - Strategies for Nintendo Games by Publications International, Ltd, with a red cover, also having the old Retromags.com Thank You page (the one with various characters in it). Did it get take down?

[bombatomba]

I dug a little deeper and found a weekly update post by Phillyman in 2008 mentioning the name of the guide, along with names, so that it could be either E-Day, Phillyman, or Mek1 that scanned it.

Anyway, I've uploaded the file to my Drive and here is the link.  If this was taken down for a reason I understand, but I cannot be the only person who likes to read this stuff ;).  Thinking if it was not we can re-upload it with the appropriate contributions:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cz01zcja9eM_mqdbUi6SzgBEWdVVd-f-/view?usp=sharing

[Interesting]

I used to have that red magazine!

I'm actually working on the yellow cover version of the Strategies for Nintendo Games, as I ended up finding it in a used game shop for dirt cheap a few years ago. I got it all scanned, I just have to make it look nice.

[kpnanny]

For several years, I have been looking for the Nintendo magazine from the early 1990s that had a complete strategy guide for Solomon's Key (original Nintendo version), including maps of all the treasure rooms and secret rooms.  Does anyone know if there is a digital copy of that particular strategy guide?

[Phillyman]

On 7/18/2024 at 5:33 PM, bombatomba said:

Did it get take down?

More like it got lost in the shuffle.

Back in the day, Retromags worked off a $10 per month webhost and we put all our files on MegaUpload or Rapidshare or Rapidfire, and everytime we got into one of those solutions, they would get shut down.

The biggest problem was, if I "Phillyman" was not grabbing new releases as they came out....or I missed some.....and then the service went belly up, well I didnt have them to move elsewhere.

Which is why, now all Team Members upload files to my server first, and then every 20 minutes or so, that server kicks a copy up to the seedbox for distribution. This way I can run backups and be absentminded and know I have a 1 to 1 copy here.