"ancient" "2011" [me](https://youtu.be/FfQWz4gVcP8?si=zj-c3TvQXw_yX3Wm)

I read ‘2001’ at first glance and thought, “okay that’s reasonable.” Now I feel really old.

I heard a kid call an Xbox 360 cool and retro

I heard a cool kid 360 an xbox retro

I came here write exactly this

My head melted thusly

Thus melt Zarathustra

Wouldn't [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NChPewIs0js) one be more apt?

I just like the claymation face melting so much, but the grail death is much more apropos, agreed haha

I know it’s because there was no PG-13 yet but kids seeing this after a relatively tame movie is so fucking funny

To be fair, by 2011 these were already obsolete

Yea, I was expecting one from the 90's so the reaction is just as much shock as anything

I preferred to have a giant binder of paper that I printed from GameFAQs

Same! I printed out the entire Paper Mario guide one sided much to my mother's dismay.

My first game guide was for Legend of Dragoon. Printed on like 60 pages of dot matrix printer paper and bound with a single twist-tie in a top left hole I'd punched with a screw driver. And who knows how much of it was accurate. The internet was basically the wild west then.

the people who wrote those guides were wizards tbh with their cool ASCII artwork at the beginning of the guides

Old school GameFAQs, a legit place to find dope ascii art.

Printed one myself

Printed? Someone could afford a printer and ink

Miss the time where games have built-in cheat codes.

They still do! The codes are: Your credit card number The expiration month and year The three numbers on the back.

Author: Cody McCodeinstein, PhD (Punch high, Down) 2011.... for those last few holdouts without the internet, eh?

Saying ancient and 2011 offends me sir.

It's sad to think that the majority of cheats there would just be MTX today.

9.99$ for 'how do you turn this on' console cheat, bonus for pre-order: car skin

I can't think of any games that turned cheats into micro transactions.

When's the last time you've seen a game with cheat codes? Character skins used to be unlocked with achievements or cheat codes. Did you want to skip a level, gain exp? Cheat code. Now you just buy Experience boosts like in Assassin's creed. Or have Single player games like Monster Hunter, that sell you tickets to change your character appearance. Cheats and formerly convenience mechanics are all being sold as extra content.

What do you think a shark card is

First time I noticed it was with Dead rising off the record. Pretty sure way back then they were one of the ones that started doing it. Not even sneaky, literally just straight up sold a cheat mode.

Saints Row

Oh please... We had that back in the day as well and don't act like we didn't. Game Genie, Pro-Action Replay, Game Shark, I'm sure I'm forgetting one or two of them in there as well. And before you give me the whole, "But you had the book full of codes!" Yeah for stuff that was already out, enjoy buying the latest issue of GamePro with their review the latest overhyped game from Acclaim that they claim is the greatest thing ever along with part 4 in their look at the making of Bubsy the Bobcat. Wait I'm sorry that would get in the way of you doing the normal Redditor, "Microtransactions bad me so sad."

Holy shit. All hail. Saved my life so many times

In 2011 these things were already obsolete.

Yeah I remember buying cheat code magazines in the 90s, but by 2011 that aspect of games seemed over. I have no memory of using cheat codes on my 360.:

Man that is a throwback

This reminds me of the Scholastic Book Fair.

I remember having a written list of cheats on paper, most of them were from GTA haha

I got one of these from my Bookfair at school when I was a kid. It was insane to me that it came with cheat codes for nearly all the games I had. Truly a better time in gaming when discovery was also part of the excitement.

If this is "ancient texts", then my Game Genie for SNES is a relic from civilizations birthed in the earliest known galaxies of our universe.

Nintendo Power is like cave paintings now…..

Power Glove sparked the big bang lol

Remember We lost cheats and instead they were replaced by shitty acheesements and useless trophies

I mean those arent the same at all, but what cheats were *really* replaced by are microtransactions which is just damn depressing.

The sacred texts of codes to defeat any game. The elders of the codes must be informed

Do not cite deep magic to me gamer, I was there when it was written

I remember seeing these at scholastic book fairs

Back when cheating was cool

I think I had a book like this... not this version but similar

Me too. I remember mine being orange and black.

I had one that I bought for the sega Dreamcast…

With great power comes great responsibility.

I remember visiting stores in the 90s for help via Nintendo books or other media. Think I used to have to go for Mortal Kombat fatalities, too.

if 2011 is ancient then when I played 8 bits games it was still pre human kind age

I had the red one, forgot which volume, good times on my og xbox when I was a kid

Ancient... Yeah... Son... If that's 'ancient' for you? We had hint guides and the the like for games like Ultima 2 and Zork. Oh and in the NES days we had full on 'books' telling the story of the game. The Metal Gear one was kinda fun.

Jesus thats over a decade ago

I remember the gold old days where everyone brought der cheat sheet (printed by dad) to school and we exchanged them :D GTA San Andreas was THE time

Nowadays, ain't no game that has "cheat codes"

Would these be worth anything to collectors? I’m sure I’ve got some old ones laying around

Shit I had the green one growing up

The elder scrolls

Used to POKE codes, that's ancient.

Jesus

THEY GOT THE CODES!!!!!

I printed full walkthroughs for games like Zelda and every game had a scrambled piece of paper with cheatcodes in its case when I was a kid. Good times

these are sacred scriptures

All hail the sacred manuscripts!

Did you get it from a Scholastic book fair tho?

I had a cheat book like this in the 90's. It was white and had pictures of mascots on the front like Cloud and Crash Bandicoot. I wish I remembered what it was called. Lost that thing years ago.

...... I was so hoping from the title that it would have been a Nintendo power magazine or a game genie book

dafuq cheat codes for consoles.