[coffeebeqn]

My friend who I played Red and Blue with had one of those. They were an incredible resource. Later I was almost more amazed by gameFAQs which has very detailed guides for almost any game. And at least back then it was all ASCII with no ads. A million times better than the blogspam game guides that Google returns these days

[j-bos]

With hand formatted ascii art to boot.

[disgruntledphd2]

gamefaqs often still has really really good mostly text guides for PC cRPGs (with the odd exception of BG3). Maybe all the old-timey text nerds only like RTWP (which is a position I have a lot of sympathy with).

[araes]

On a cursory survey of GameFaqs as it exists now, checked the top five most recent game additions. Got semi-recent to recent games. Seems very similar to 20 years ago with slight tech additions. Still very slimmed down. Minimal load.

Fate/Extra CCC, All Endings (1/2/24); Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky, Recruitment (12/28/23); Shin Megami Tensei V, Walkthrough (1/4/24); Super Mario Bros. Wonder, Strategy (12/25/23); The Sims 4, Rent Object List (12/30/23)

Oldschool Ascii: 1, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon

Text HTML w/ Menu: 2, Fate/Extra CCC, Shin Megami Tensei V

Text and Images: 1, Sims 4

Text, Images, Video: 1, Super Mario Bros. Wonder

They all seemed reasonably well written on a cursory glance. Notably, did not delve all that far into checking whether they were factual.