# GameFAQs

Hacker Approved page: https://hackerapproved.com/p/gamefaqs/

9 people recommended GameFAQs in Hacker News comments, 1 had mixed feelings and none criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026. It was recommended in 6 of 12 months, in 7 threads. It does not meet the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** People recommend GameFAQs for its plain-text walkthroughs and guides, and for a late-1990s site design that has barely changed. No recurring criticism appears in the quotes.

Summary written by Claude from 9 comments.

## Why people recommend it

- Plain-text walkthroughs and guides (4 comments in the sample): "I'd take 1000 GameFAQs .txt only pages over whatever slop Fandom wikis push." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49791703)) "GameFAQs and newsgroups got pretty far with plain text" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46561902)) "Man, Gamefaqs always had such amazing guides." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49113747))
- Unchanged late-90s internet feel (2 comments in the sample): "the gamefaqs subdomain has remained nearly identical to how it was in the late 90s early 2000s" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46523144)) "they encapsulate the best of what I like about the internet" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50048333))

## The badge

A product earns the Hacker Approved badge when at least 10 people recommend it, recommenders outnumber critics at least 2 to 1 (mixed feelings count toward neither side), it was recommended in at least 4 of the 12 months and in at least 5 different threads, and no single thread supplies more than half of the people who recommend it. Health and money products are never badged.

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "GameFAQs", https://hackerapproved.com/p/gamefaqs/ (9 recommend, 1 mixed, 0 criticize; Hacker News comments, November 2025 to October 2026).

Counts updated 2 Nov 2026, with data through October 31, 2026.