This video and these comments make me feel so vindicated about my frustrations with this guide. I didn't have internet at home for like another year after this came out. I felt ripped off by this guide. I paid for content and got "Go to Play Online" which I couldn't even do!

Worst strategy guide for the worst, pre-sausage fest, game. Fitting.

I also had this guide, with no Internet connection back in 2000. RIP.

I remember getting this strategy guide and being so mad. We didn't have internet I would have to ride my bike to the library to use the internet

Playing this in February 2025.

Like I'm 5 minutes in and thinking "wait if you're on the internet already you've got better options anyway."

FFIX was my first Final Fantasy. I got the guide, I went to playonline. I didn't find it very helpful, and I just used guides on gamefaqs. I do still have the strategy guide though.

To be fair who really needed a guide for this easy game, unless you were bent on looking for all the secrets

Extreme G, & Episode One Racer were some of my favorites.

I found one at a local game store they didnt even have ot on display and i bought it for $55 such a good game especially on my md200

I remember how much I loved my genesis but absolutely hated the sound effects and it was terrible on most of their games. Smh.

Interestingly 32Bit, I enjoy the Nintendo 64. In the beginning of the life span of the console, I thought it was the greatest technological invention that Nintendo created. However as time went on, I was starting to have doubts seeing the limitations it was having due to being a cartridge base system in the mid-90's onwards. Soon after, I was looking at what Sony was offering with the Playstation, and I understood way Nintendo was losing ground. Of course the Playstation is far from perfect seeing it was during the time when CD based technology in the 90's was choppy and not refined like it was during the Playstation 2 era.But seeing what can be done from the transition from Cartridge to CD certainly had its benefits and help make the PlayStation a winner over the N64 in the category....and a lot of other things as well. Anyway, great video as always 32Bit. Always a pleasure seeing you in action and glad you have Pokemon Stadium and Mario Kart 64 in the collection. I have them as well bro. 8^) Anthony..

This made me give up on ever buying another strategy guide. It was infuriating

I am the complete opposite from you for this one. I adore my N64 and its library. Even nowadays during Game Night on Tuesday's, my friends and I play it all the time. My system is the one from my childhood and so are most of my games. Never owned a GameCube back then and even though I like it very much nowadays and have a decently solid library for it I don't hold it anywhere near the same level as my N64. In fact, if I were forced to sell most of my collections for any reason, my N64 would be one of the systems I would choose to keep if I were able to and the GameCube would probably be one of the first of the Nintendo consoles I have that I would consider letting go of first. The Wii U is most likely the only console I'd get rid of before the GameCube. I think the reason for this is that most games that I would want to play on a GameCube other than Nintendo published ones are available and would play better on an Xbox which I did have at the time. This is honestly made me see the GameCube as a bit overrated for collecting these days so my library for it is quite a bit smaller than my other ones. Would you ever consider selling any parts of your N64 stuff? Since this is mostly your childhood stuff I wouldn't be surprised if you said no, but I would love an opportunity to repair and refurbish that N64 console. I know you said it was an accident from many years ago but it honestly makes me sad looking at it like that. 😥

The Nintendo 64... Never had one as a kid, always wanted one (got my first EVER for Christmas a couple years ago!) Early 3D hasn't aged as well as later systems, but it doesn't matter - I still love playing Banjo-Kazooie, Mario Party, Goldeneye and Mario Kart. I really want to try Conker's Bad Fur Day! 😂 Really cool collection you've got!! Racing games are so much fun, even now with MK8 Deluxe, Gran Turismo, and CTR Nitro Fueled! Shame that retro games from this era are so expensive now, i really want to pick up more! Did you compose the jazz that plays in the background? Or is it just some sort of free to use stuff? Always nice to hear that in the background!

we still have the magazine of strategy guide with the faces of creator's team in there. missed those days where this was on rage. that's definitely a bad mag

Holy shit, I just remembered being a 12 year old kid and signing up for a playonline account. If I remember correctly, they had an email service too? Maybe that was another Final Fantasy related website, but I think that might've been it

The worst by far I can think of is Complete Final Fantasy III Forbidden Game Secrets. It is a "guide" for Final Fantasy 6 SNES. You should check it out ;p

All the more that some versions had just wrong info printed in the bestiary - the UK Version had bits in straight up german language too

FF8 is superior to FF9 in every way you can imagine. Deal with it.

Great video and collection. Can you do N64 collection video? If you have a N64

This is the first game I ever bought with my own money from my first job. I bought the game and strategy guide shortly after the game was released. I lived at home and we didn't have the internet..... I was fucking pissed! lol Good memories.

Here's the real worst part about 7 years or so back i was replacing some of the old guides i used to have (either destroyed or sold with my old ps1) but, yeah added it to the list not thinking the play online site was closed down. so it's a nice papery paper weight now. lol

I dont know, Suikoden IIs was pretty bad too

I was in prison from 2009 to 2011. We were allowed personal items, and although I was only there for a short time, we were given similar privileges as lifers. One of them was being able to have a gaming console as long as it had no internet capabilities - so our options were at best N64 and PS1. I opted for PS1 and my brother who really showed he was my best friend sent me the console along with several classic RPGs . Legend of Dragoon, Chrono Cross , and all FF games including FFIX. He was even nice enough to get me the strategy guides for most games. While not the main nor only reason for my rehabilitation, you can say that the frustration from using the guide for FFIX made me never want to be in that situation again.

Play Online wasn't so much a "service" and more like a "mafia shakedown"

Some great pickups! Threads of Fate was a favorite of mine when I was a kid! Been wanting to play it again at some point since it's been so long!

I like to have a strategy guide or map handy for RPGs and older games. Glad you told me about FF9's being complete garbage.

Piggyback made the best guides.

Also if it makes you guys feel any better a basement flood killed my copy of this 🤣

I had (still have) this guide. It was so infuriating and so much is left out. When FF9 was re-released I replayed it using a Gamefaq. My god it felt like I missed at least 1/3 of the game, especially in the sidequest sector, with my original playthroughs. I hated that strategy guide! Sidenote: I love that the guy who restored PlayOnline's site is named Justin Bailey. For those elderly gamers like me, that grew up w/ NES Metroid, that name is forever seared into memory.

I tore the cover and binding off. Three hole bunched the pages. Went to play online. I printed everything they had and placed it into the pages of the officially trash guide and made an ultimate guide.

I picked up the 7 and 8 double pack as well.

Oh! That does it!!!! I'm coming over to your pad and enjoy all these excellent goodies you have to add in your awesome gaming collection 32Bit. And if the troublemaker 32X comes around giving us any grief, I'll be putting him up so high in the closet shelf that he won't see sunlight for years you come. 8^) Hahaha. Anyway, excellent to see another great video from you brother man. I love them. 8^) Anthony..

Eff this guide and the Odin variant he rode with!

DUDE THESE PICKUPS ARE SO COOL!! You came across some really great deals for so many cool games - its funny how similar our taste in games are, if I could afford to collect like this I would absolutely get very similar things 😂 Do you have a way to play them all (aside from the Xbox)? You must have a WILD setup!! Shame about the Metaphor Collector's - mine was thankfully not ripped, but my collector's of Unicorn Overlord was. I actually got a lot of the same newer games as you haha - but my backlog monster is waiting as I work through Metaphor 😂 Really cool to see you keep mentioning VGP and PNP, my two favourite places to get games from. I live not too far from PNP Retail and its always so dangerous to go in haha! Awesome as always 😎 PS: The Persona 3 Reload soundtrack is amazing, and I bet it sounds incredible on vinyl!! (and sorry for the long comment)

Final Fantasy 9 has one of the shortest main stories in the series. It is shorter than Final Fantasy 8. The only two mainstream Final Fantasies shorter than 9 are 1 and 2.

Once you learn cards evolve from use in the card game. The game strategy used changed significantly. The strategy be becomes winning the match while keeping them from taking the card you are leveling.

Goddamn worst guide ever.

I have this strategy guide. I bought it because all of the Brady Games Strategy guides were always the best and I could always rely on them. I never bought another Brady Games Guide again. I always hoped this guide put Brady Games out of business. It was an imprint of Penguin. It was empty. There was nothing of value in it. Edit: I actually have that Final Fantasy VIII strategy guide on my bookshelf right now. Because I use it.

I remember I couldn’t use the PlayOnline stuff because my internet access had parental controls on it and PO was blocked completely. I actually turned to GameFAQs when I got stuck.

I still have my copy of that guide and the game as well.

It's not one of the best Final Fantasy games. 😂

My older brother had that stupid fucking guide AND he signed up for the online service, which if I remember correctly went down only a few years after the game came out. It's not like the guide contains a total dearth of useful information, as I was able to do plenty of sidequests and whatnot with its aid, but there's just no good reason to pay for a strategy guide TWICE.

"Do you think you can get it inside mine?" - Fred Couples

I discovered this game about 2 years ago and definitely like it. It's no Neo Turf Masters, but pretty cool (and obviously completely different in style).

It didn’t even have shop lists!! Good luck finding that old weapon you never finished the ability for and really need now…

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA. ALRIGHT!!! THE 32X IS BACK!!!! 8^) Now this really made my day 32Bit. So glad to see the Antagonist to the channel back on with you bro. He's really is staple to have in your videos and he made it just in time for Halloween. What I remember about Golf Magazine for the 32X was mostly it looked like a game that was still in development that was never completed. I mean, the graphics and surroundings reminded me when I was in computer graphics class just studying on what multimedia computers could do just for fun 32Bit. It just was not a game ready for the public at all. I guess I could say if they concentrated on the games development more, this could've had potential for sure. 8^( Welp, eithway 32Bit, thank you for sharing this great video with us and always a pleasure seeing the your nemesis the 32X back again for sure brother man. 8^) Anthony..

I had this guide. It sucked ass lol