OldSchoolRPGs

Much appreciated! I was keeping an eye out incase they showed up here!

I'm currently in a playthrough of Mother 3. After finishing Zelda TotK I've been having the itch to play through some old Zelda games though. Lot in my backlog that I've never fully finished but I'd love to beat still

I used to collect a ton of strategy guides when I was younger. I had them for most RPGs I played in the 90's/00's but I sadly got rid of many of them years ago. I still have a few, and my favorite ones have to be my leather bound Lunar 2 and Arc the Lad Collection strategy guides. They had such a premium feel for them back when most guides were just paperback. Plus they're both pretty long games so having a guide for them was extremely helpful! Back around 2004 my buddies talked me into playing FFXI and my buddy lent me the guide and I remember leafing through it all the time. I picked up my own copy of the guide pretty recently and the nostalgia came back pretty hard when I got it. By all accounts it's a fairly useless guide nowadays, but it holds a lot of meaning to me as it was the first big MMO that I got to play with my friends, and we played for many many years together.

GamePro and EGM were the two I used to stay up to date on releases and reviews. I started buying Retro Gamer issues in the mid 2000's because I still cared more about the classics at that point (and still do).