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A question that'll likely make you feel old: Does anyone remember the website Gamesages?

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So, a long time ago, around late 1998, I finally got access to the internet. I was about 8/9 at this point. I had already been made aware of GameFAQs, thank's to a family friend's mother, but I also discovered the website Gamesages through them as well. Realistically, it was also linked to GameFAQs back in the day, so even if I hadn't known it from there, would've found it.

Having said that, much like GameFAQs, Gamesages was one of the first gaming sides I visited as a kid. It used to have a ton of information (including infamous and fake codes, among which fake Tomb Raider cheats, Togepi in Gen 1, and among others), but it did have a lot of legit information on top of that. They also had Game Shark, Game Genie, etc., codes as well. Used to be a great site for me to use as a resource for older games looking up specific tricks, codes and stuff, even with the unverified and fake stuff.

Eventually, the site would be bought and absorbed into IGN, and eventually kinda just... discontinued.

Either way, was reminded of it recently while talking with some people from folk I used to know awhile back.

Anyone remember it? Anyone else have old gaming site stories that'll make the rest of us feel old? Absolutely feel free to share.
 
akilshohen

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I think it leads to IGN now...

I randomly put in the URL a few years ago too

EDIT: I was in a rush to respond.
 
steviestar3

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I remember it. Gamewinners and Cheat Code Central too. Wasted so much time trying fake Pokemon cheats.
 
sir_crocodile

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Yes, as " Secrets of" it was one of the first sites I used in the 90s when I first got the internet.

Athough I hazily remember it as morphing into gamefaqs? or maybe one day on ALTA VISTA I just stumbled upon it.
 
Mexen

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Nah, I do remember old wizard though. Nintendo could do no wrong according to them.
 
Tohsaka

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Yeah, I used to visit the site on the library at school and my friend's house before I had a computer at home.
 

Kurekure Takora

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Oh yeah, loved DaveZ' Sega Saturn Page, PSX Nation, SegaNet, N64HQ, Palace Chat, etc...

Besides Sega Sages/GameFaQs, N64CC was a popular site.
 

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Yeah I remember this. I had no internet at home in 1998, but I would go to this or Gamewinners and print the Xenogears guide inbetween classes without anyone noticing. Or I printed move lists and cheat codes of certain games.
 
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All I ever used back in those days were magazines, but in the early 00's I used to always go to cheatcc.com (cheat code central) or happypuppy.com. Only ever use to look up game websites for cheat codes. Didn't even ever think to look up reviews.
 
Squarehard

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I had to find codes in a book, a magazine, or ask a friend back then so that makes me feel old.
 

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I used to lurk gamefaqs waaaaaaaaaaaaaay back in the early early 2000s. I had fun looking up walkthroughs for games I never heard of.

I was also pretty active on some site called Cheatsguru from 2006ish to 2009ish. Helped me through a lot of wild times. a whole gaming forum where practically the entire userbase is age 10-13 lead to some fucked up antics. Oof.

These days the site is on heavy life support. I think one active user ended up hosting a server after the admin gave up, and half the features on the site don't work anymore. I made a lot of friends on that site and haven't talked to them in nearly 15 years... Damn, time flies.
 
retroman

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I'm afraid I've never heard of Gamesages.

During that era, the website at the top of my bookmarks list was UKResistance. Man I miss that godforsaken place.
 
gnexus

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Anyone remember when Zelda.com was a porn site? Trying to find information about OoT was how I became a man.
 

RGamer2009

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I went to SuperCheats to find N64 cheat codes back in the day... and its still around today! Crazy!!
 
ReyVGM

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Mendinso said:
So, a long time ago, around late 1998, I finally got access to the internet. I was about 8/9 at this point. I had already been made aware of GameFAQs, thank's to a family friend's mother, but I also discovered the website Gamesages through them as well. Realistically, it was also linked to GameFAQs back in the day, so even if I hadn't known it from there, would've found it.

Having said that, much like GameFAQs, Gamesages was one of the first gaming sides I visited as a kid. It used to have a ton of information (including infamous and fake codes, among which fake Tomb Raider cheats, Togepi in Gen 1, and among others), but it did have a lot of legit information on top of that. They also had Game Shark, Game Genie, etc., codes as well. Used to be a great site for me to use as a resource for older games looking up specific tricks, codes and stuff, even with the unverified and fake stuff.

Eventually, the site would be bought and absorbed into IGN, and eventually kinda just... discontinued.

Either way, was reminded of it recently while talking with some people from folk I used to know awhile back.

Anyone remember it? Anyone else have old gaming site stories that'll make the rest of us feel old? Absolutely feel free to share.
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In 1999

In 2000
 
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nuke.com
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Voodoo Extreme (of course)
nintendojo.com (still exists I believe)
ison***.com (I was a teenager :\
 
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gnexus said:
Anyone remember when Zelda.com was a porn site? Trying to find information about OoT was how I became a man.
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Oh lord. I didn't go there, but I seem to remember if you mis-typed GameFAQs in some manner 98-99, it would take you to a porn site. Happened to me twice, and the second time freaked me out in particular. My dad saw what happened and laughed it off. Told me I didn't do anything wrong and we moved on. Prompted me to just Google/Yahoo/MSN Search the site for awhile after that, because of that.

EDIT: Random, since it made me think of something recent, but the Digimon Fusion website would get hijacked occasionally (domain is now owned by someone else, given IP/License expired, domain wasn't renewed), and one instance it would re-direct you to a Russian Escort site. I'd used to check the domain occasionally and see if it ever got updated, and that happened at least one or twice during the duration.
 
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Ayirek

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Only very vaguely. I remember in 1998 or 99 my cousin got lucky and for all lucky 7s against Emerald Weapon in FFVII, so he tried posting his exact setup as a guide. I don't think it was ever accepted or posted.
 
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OLD MAN MURRAY DOT COM

such a mainstay that you never even thought about how weird it was to name your vidya site "old man murray"
 
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Mendinso said:
So, a long time ago, around late 1998, I finally got access to the internet. I was about 8/9 at this point. I had already been made aware of GameFAQs, thank's to a family friend's mother, but I also discovered the website Gamesages through them as well. Realistically, it was also linked to GameFAQs back in the day, so even if I hadn't known it from there, would've found it.

Having said that, much like GameFAQs, Gamesages was one of the first gaming sides I visited as a kid. It used to have a ton of information (including infamous and fake codes, among which fake Tomb Raider cheats, Togepi in Gen 1, and among others), but it did have a lot of legit information on top of that. They also had Game Shark, Game Genie, etc., codes as well. Used to be a great site for me to use as a resource for older games looking up specific tricks, codes and stuff, even with the unverified and fake stuff.

Eventually, the site would be bought and absorbed into IGN, and eventually kinda just... discontinued.

Either way, was reminded of it recently while talking with some people from folk I used to know awhile back.

Anyone remember it? Anyone else have old gaming site stories that'll make the rest of us feel old? Absolutely feel free to share.
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Yeah, that's how I was introduced to IGN64.
 
hikarutilmitt

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I remember Game Sages and Game Winners from back when I would try to find things (pre Google era) and came up with a ton of useless junk even by the standards of the 90s. Amazingly, GameFAQs was the only one that seemed to actually try to curate its information and didn't even have forums to talk on until later.
 
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