Originally, I wanted to do something a little different than the typical walkthroughs and guides, which in these days are YouTube videos or HTML guides. I liked printed material, and two examples came to mind—the hintbook to Cythera, the only printed publication the 1999 game ever got, and this Blaster Master guide as seen on VGMaps, a simple four-page guide to the game (It doesn't need extensive coverage). Sadly, the now-defunct site from which the Blaster Master guide is derived from, at least in its 2018 form seemed to have these guides as the exception rather than the rule. The Mega Man 2 guide is rather...sparse...but does it need extensive coverage? (Conversely, the guide for Ys I & II for TurboGrafx-16 was much longer). Making content for relatively undocumented games was difficult (especially trying to output a quality product with no help, no funding, and no audience), content for known games felt like a waste of time.

Rather, this page will have what I consider the best, most complete guides that are printer-friendly. This is not to say they won't have tons of pages but they'll be free of backgrounds and other issues that plague written material.