The Shrine

In case you didn't know, there was a guide put together by the Mother 3 sub group. I pre-ordered mine right away so I got a little decal thing and a keychain to go with it. It's a really, really nice guide, very well put together and is of pretty good quality. A little bit larger than the Double Jump Books guides and at least the same quality. I like it very much and it's a unique collectible for a collector like me. Pic below in case you care.

Edit: the guide is the red one on the right. The thing on the left is the slip cover which is also a poster on the inside

Is this a Japanese guide or one done by those crazy starmen.net fans?

Ahhhh...that sound you hear is me sliding into reminiscence back to when games had awesome, awesome physical in-box add-ons. You're giving me flashbacks to the wonderful cloth maps and trinkets that used to come with the Ultima series and the hilarious "manuals" that used to go with Infocom and their various copy-protection-in-the-manual schemes.

That IS a thoroughly sick guide. I wouldn't buy it, mind, 'cause I'm too poor for collector's value, but it is very cool. I know a kid who'd go gaga over that.

I still have the Earthbound guide; and to date I feel it is the most creative one I have ever owned. It is essentially one giant tourist pamphlet to all the locations in the game; tons of art (pictures of clay figurines and such), menus for the restaraunts, etc...

Blotus wrote:Is this a Japanese guide or one done by those crazy starmen.net fans?

It's the translation group who made it and it was released by Fangamer.net. It's all in English

Replay wrote:Ahhhh...that sound you hear is me sliding into reminiscence back to when games had awesome, awesome physical in-box add-ons. You're giving me flashbacks to the wonderful cloth maps and trinkets that used to come with the Ultima series and the hilarious "manuals" that used to go with Infocom and their various copy-protection-in-the-manual schemes.

I actually still have the cloth map from Ultima Underworld and Alundra. Those are the last ones I remember other than some of the Working Designs super set releases. They were really nice and I do miss that. Those packages died with Working Designs. Hopefully Victor Ireland gets his Gaijanworks company going and gets back to those nice sets.

RentCavalier wrote:That IS a thoroughly sick guide. I wouldn't buy it, mind, 'cause I'm too poor for collector's value, but it is very cool. I know a kid who'd go gaga over that.

He can still get them if he wants

Dr Seekerlove wrote:I still have the Earthbound guide; and to date I feel it is the most creative one I have ever owned. It is essentially one giant tourist pamphlet to all the locations in the game; tons of art (pictures of clay figurines and such), menus for the restaraunts, etc...

I remember picking up the game, box, and guide randomly back in the day. I actually hadn't heard of the game and saw it used in a game shop. I thought it looked cool so I got it and still have that same copy. It ended up being one of my fav SNES games.

Zeus wrote:I actually still have the cloth map from Ultima Underworld and Alundra. Those are the last ones I remember other than some of the Working Designs super set releases. They were really nice and I do miss that. Those packages died with Working Designs. Hopefully Victor Ireland gets his Gaijanworks company going and gets back to those nice sets.

I buried the Avatar coin from Ultima V in a Christmas Tree pine forest in an effort to leave something of value behind after we took the tree one year

I don't really care about the extras they pack in a game, but I really miss back in the days when all instruction manuals are in color. This is why I support the guys in Hong Kong even if their manga is deemed no longer worthy to be sold in stores because they at least put everything in color.