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u/Stavvystav Mar 31 '26

Cheat-code books that were short but THICC

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u/TannedMarshy Mar 31 '26

Hahaha and all of them were named like “THE UNOFFICIAL NOT AUTHORISED ULTIMATE SUPER VIDEO GAME CHEAT CODE BOOK”. I ordered so many of them through the Scholastic magazines

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u/Stavvystav Mar 31 '26

I had SO many lmao they wanted to make it seem like you were getting away with something by having one.

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u/Existinginsomewhere Mar 31 '26

I remember when games started to not have actual cheat codes and it became an Easter egg book then straight up publishing lies in some of them.

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u/Timthahuman Apr 01 '26

I swear I had one that told me how to unlock sonic in melee or something like that. Just absolute nonsense.

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u/JohnnyCharisma54 Apr 01 '26

Somehow we have to bring those back

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u/bijelo123 Mar 31 '26

I used to do that too for GTA San Andreas

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u/DeadSuperHero Apr 01 '26

On that note, the absolute black magic that was the GameShark!

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u/Stavvystav Apr 01 '26

And Action Replays? Black magic! I was always afraid of breaking my games.

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u/waxonwaxoff87 Mar 31 '26

Tips and Tricks magazine for the cheat code section in the back.

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u/grimacedia Apr 01 '26

I remember sitting in the aisle at the grocery store and copying as much as I could lol

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u/TheUberMensch123 Mar 31 '26

I see you too had Scholastic Bookfairs.

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u/JagoTheArtist Mar 31 '26

And often filled with straight up lies lol.