First FAQ: Marvel vs. Capcom Arcade
Date: 9/1/98
Inspiration: Ryu([email protected]) and Marvel vs. Capcom itself.
 

Oh yeah, try to be honest. If it was the CRL(Contributor Recognition List) then just tell me. Nobody would get angry at you, I wouldn't. Oh yeah, I was honest if you even have the slightest doubt. Once again this is just sheer curiosity.

--Dallas

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FAQ name: SaGa Frontier Skill FAQ
Date: 12 of April this year
Reason: Well... there wasn't any guides that specifically explained the skills the SaGa Frontier at that time and I've just completed the game 11 times, so I thought I knew everything about the game.

I have had no idea that I made it into the top 20 after just 3 guides, 2 of them yet to be completed..

BTW, how do you guys get a Contributor Recognition page? Do you just sent in your stats or something??

Aya

Anyway, my first FAQ accepted was pretty recent, it's one for J-League Perfect Striker on the N64, finished on 12/11/99(I think, too lazy to go and check myself)... I wrote it for one reason and one reason only - boredom. =)

--Dallas

He always said to me that I should write a FAQ for _this_ 
game or a strategy for _that_ game abecause of all the tips 
I gave him and because of all the times I entered in codes 
for him when he couldn't or gave up. He was really my first 
influence.

Anyways, more influences were of course GAmeFAQs and the CRL (ryhmes with TRL) and the rankings CJayC gives. I'm aiming to be on that top 20. I don't really care what position though.

--TBO

I never really had much inspiration to write most of my FAQs, except for a couple of them. For those who were wondering what possessed me to make the Ultimate Kirby Guide, here's my reason. I looked at Procyon Lotor's Ultimate Mega Man FAQ once, and I thought maybe I should do the same for Kirby. After all, I owned almost all of the games at the time (now i own them all except Kirby Star Stacker for Gameboy) and it would be nice to make a nice guide with walkthroughs and other info for all the games! So you can say Procyon Lotor inspired me in a way..

My reason for writing my Super Mario RPG FAQ was also due to my looking at other SMRPG FAQs on GameFAQs earlier this year. I saw that each of them had great amounts of info, but none of them were complete. There would be one FAQ with this info and another FAQ with that info, so I chose to write the one and only totally COMPLETE FAQ to the game!

Laterz!
-Ida

''Buttercup, will you calm it down?!''- Buster Bunny (Adventures of Espio and Molly, one of my fan animes)

http://members.aol.com/IdaKathry/wwa.html (Wacky World Adventures)

http://members.aol.com/HreToday/bunny.html (Hare Today, Gone Today)

http://members.aol.com/IdaKathry/ffr.html (Far From Reality)

I then made myself a goal that I'll make as many FAQs as I can to cover most of the wrestling games in the US market than all the other GameFAQ writers.

I think I accomplished that with my WCW & WWF character guides, but I still contribute regular guides to the newest wrestling games. 

First FAQ: Ehrgeiz Cloud Character Guide
Date: Somewhere during mid 1998
Inspiration: Not many FAQs for game, plus I had access to a somewhat complete move list, plus there was some great strategis to the game and a lot of stuff that nobody knew (except me).

The first one I did was to the NEs game swordmaster.

Be good/Sunshine

--Dallas
 

It was a real learning experience though, I started the FAQ in HTML and put it up person by person on my website, then I converted it to SimpleText, which just about killed it with the screwy spacing and all. Then I mailed it to my old computer and converted it with Word Pad and went through the whole thing lining it up and deleting the HTML tags. BUT at the time I didn't know that WordPad's automatic word wrap didn't stick when you uploaded the document, SO I had to go through the whole thing again in NotePad and finally got it right...*WHEW* 

I have to admit that getting done with that first FAQ is a very good feeling. After that I just wanted to do more and more and more!^_^ But there were no games that really seemed to need FAQs that didn't have them for the DC at the time. Luckily things didn't stay that way for long^_^

Technically, the first REAL FAQ-type writing I did was translating the AJPW featuring Virtua move chart for my site, but they're pretty ugly when I look at them now. But I never seem to have time to go and redo them properly, Oh well...

Er.......i just wrote it, using stuff i found.
I had a big big notebook with lists of things i found and where!
 

Have a nice day! O_O

- King Kung: sulking on the ''board''
 

Deathgod

Date: October 15, 1998
Inspiration: There were barley any FAQs at the time (can you believe that ^_^), and the ones there were based upon a Japanese version, and were somewhat lacking in details.

Scott Ong

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~DD
''If I was a fat zombie I would eat myself.''

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-The one and only.....Seiferoth.....
...The Reaper is always one step behind me...

Published: I dunno, I only just submitted it to GameFAQs 10 minutes ago or so, guess I'll see whether or not it's quality enough in a few days (what's the usual time lapse?).

Written: Originally, sometime in summer/early fall '98, updated winter '98-'99, basically finished in March '99 (and stuck up on my homepage at that time), slightly revised - explanation of why I don't use the ''official Square names'' and such - and submitted on Valentine's Day 2000.

Inspiration: At the time, there weren't any decent FF5 walkthroughs at all, they were all of the generalized sort which indicated more or less what to do but not where to go to find this or that. And they also mostly used the Japanese names for things which, while admittedly showing impressive translation skills on the part of the author, didn't help much for those of us who wanted plain simple English.

And since there was a ROM patch long since out by that time, I figured I'd write up a nice detailed (*very* detailed, to the point where I probably insult the reader's intelligence actually) walkthrough, for my own reference so I wouldn't have to wander off in the wrong direction and deal with so many of the umpteen random battles, just to collect all the treasure. And also so I wouldn't miss any Blue magic spells.

So I wrote it up, and promptly stuck it on my middle-of-nowhere webpage which nobody had a link to. :P So finally a year later I got around to cleaning it up a bit and submitting it here where at least it would be looked over and evaluated by one person, even if it didn't make the cut.

*end sob story of the forlorn and unloved walkthrough*

Anyway, that's mine. Now I'm just waiting, having knowingly committed the cardinal sin of daring to submit a walkthrough for a Final Fantasy game. :)

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- Xjph -
([email protected])

Inspiration? Kao Megura (yes, the FF7 walkthroughs... gotta love `em...) and all those great authors (all hail Dingo...)

Why'd I do it? There weren't enough decent walkthroughs in Xenogears at that time, so I made one. Up to now, it's still not done... ^_^

-- G --

Also: DanCG, and CjayC.

Inspiration: I had found GameFAQs about a month before starting it, and just found all the information fascinating. Loved Marshmallow's work, as well as MetroidMoo. So, I felt like writing one myself, and needed one for a game I already knew, and didn't have a million guides for it. When I found Zelda with only two FAQs (and one of which is merely a small updated version of the other), I went for it!

Also, I read and used Scott Ong's Brigandine guide while playing that game. Great FAQ!

And Kao's FF7...

Erg Gibbon's Breath of Fire III...

All such wonderful wonderful stuff, that I could only hope to be half as good as!

My first FAQ was my Time Crisis FAQ (it's better known as the Time Crisis Problem-Solving Espionage Survival Kit). The reason I wrote this FAQ is because I don't want to see a lot of people waste a lot of time, money, and lives on this totally different game. My goal was to help people learn how to play Time Crisis properly.

I was inspired by a guy named Christopher Tan when I visited Christopher's site back in July 1997. Since then I wanted to provide text-based help mainly on prominent deluxe machines, which are the most expensive machines to play (namely Ferrari F355 Challenge). Ever since I have written so many FAQs for Deluxe Video Games, I have established myself as the disciple of Deluxe Video Games and a follower to expensive video arcade games.

Unfortunately, I didn't go public with GameFAQs until November of 1997, when I decided to have my Super GT (Scud Race) Driver's Manual (Super GT FAQ) posted at GameFAQs for the first time in the site's history. Super GT is also the first FAQ that I have posted with GameFAQs. Please note that my Time Crisis FAQ was NOT the first FAQ that I have posted at GameFAQs.

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Mark Kim (Vesther Fauransy the Sniper)

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Magnetto, the classic gamer

Game: Star Wars: Rogue Squadron

Original Release Date: 3/3/00
At the time, it was only about 82K, and Argonaut's was larger, but now it's over 130 K, and I've gotten a fair amount of e-mail about it.

Inspiration: I came to this site to get help with that very game, and found that none of the pre-existing FAQs on the subject had sufficient walkthroughs to get me where I wanted to go, so when I got better I decided to write my own, just to help people out.

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''Nice job, Skywalker. I'm beginning to see why they say you're the best.''
-Kasan Moor

My first FAQ was for Dragon Ball Z: Legend of the Super Saiya-Jin, for the Super Famicom. I wrote it over 4 years ago for my website. In fact, it was the reason I decided to create a website entirely.

My inspiration was simple. I had seen the previous FAQs and walkthroughs, and I found them to be incomplete and lacking of any feeling at all. It was like the person who had written them decided that they were just going to do the job, and get it over with. No fun or anything!

With that, I wrote the walkthrough from the perspective of Vegita, a prominent Dragon Ball character (and villain for the majority of the very game I/he was working on!). From there, I've been slowly updating the site, although frequent server problems have prevented me from achieving my ultimate goal with it.

The first FAQ I actually submitted to GameFAQs was for DBZ: Hyper Dimension. As for the Legend FAQ, I finally got around to submitting it about a month ago. Talk about beating around the bush, huh?
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~Reverend Vegita, Guardian Of Destiny
Sometimes I sleep. Sometimes it's dark.

The first FAQ I submitted here was my WCW/nWo Revenge Move Stealing FAQ. Don't remember the exact date, but I know it was over a year ago. :) I wrote it because (as it says in the FAQ) sometimes you get a different move instead of that guy's Special when you steal from him, and I wanted to list all the different ones. My inspiration was basically authors of FAQs that'd helped me before - I wanted to write something I felt would help others.

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King of the never-replied-to topics! :)
[email protected] - ICQ #1·1·5·9·6·9·5·8

Hmmmm.. My first FAQ was...

FAQ-Mike Tyson's Punch Out (NES)
Posted- 8/29/1999
Created-Sometime in June of 1999, I think...
Inspiration-Outkast(or-''The Crippler'') with his great FAQ.
 

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Life goes on, as it will never end. I hope to change that.

My inspirations...

Kao Megura for his depth and quality, his formatting, and his unbelieveable disclaimer.

Moogie for her knowledge of the Shining Force series and for all that she does to keep the fledgeling SF community alive despite having a job and a busy all-around life.
 

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Super Dodgeball (NES)- ''A Winner Is You.''

My first FAQ was a Goldeneye health FAQ. MAN, it was pretty crap. But now i've got two goldeneye FAQs that are a good size each, but both are only a third finished.

My inspiration was Ian Rogers. He posted my OO agent times, and i loved being in a FAQ. Then, i found out that he was 14, as am I. This gave me the inspo to write my first FAQ. I wrote it because i loved being in Ian's FAQ, but i wanted to have it all.

Now i write both FAQs and reviews. Being a FAQ writer is pretty sweet.
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FAQ GOD, the god of all FAQS

First FAQ: Sega Rally 2 (Import DC)
When: 11/22/99

I decided to write a FAQ for SR2 because I already beat it, and knew a lot about it, so I just wrote one. My main influence was CChan (at the time), if you know who that is.
 

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~Nemesis ''Lieutenant Commander of the FAQerati''
The best part of life is......life.

Yo Dingo, how's the comic collecting holding off......
 

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My humble work:
 

http://www.gamefaqs.com/features/recognition/3554.html

Sheesh, this is the first time I ever made such a lame mistake. Oh, well at least I've kept the darn topic alive :)

Yep, I know EXACTLY who CChan is, I remember seeing his work quite often around the site.
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Buh Buh Ray-''We're the d-d-d-d-d''
The Rock-''It-t-t-t-t-t IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOUR NAME IS!''

Well back in the NES hayday, me and my best friend (or I suppose I could use the grammatically correct term, my best friend and I) decided that we would take on Ninendo Power, and create our own little magazine of walkthroughs. I must have been 9 or 10 at the time (can't really remember).

My assignment at the time was to do a Metal Gear Walkthrough, while he did a Contra Guide.

So I guess those were my first FAQs, when you think about it (even if they weren't FAQs at all). I wonder what ever happened to those...

Maybe I was just fated to write FAQs... ;)

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Dan Simpson
''Glen was 50 feet tall!''

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~Nemesis ''Lieutenant Commander of the FAQerati''
The best part of life is......life.

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~Nemesis ''Lieutenant Commander of the FAQerati''
The best part of life is......life.

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Turnor26
Ask me no Questions and I'll tell you no lies

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~Nemesis ''Lieutenant Commander of the FAQerati''
The best part of life is......life.

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~Nemesis ''Lieutenant Commander of the FAQerati''
The best part of life is......life.