Hard copy video game instruction manuals and maps.

[Ming]

Is there anywhere you can buy game instruction manuals and maps (on that glossy paper)? Used to be part of the experience. It's not the same looking at a PDF on a screen or printing it out badly formatted on A4 printer paper.

 

[tommers]

Is there anywhere you can buy game instruction manuals and maps (on that glossy paper)? Used to be part of the experience. It's not the same looking at a PDF on a screen or printing it out badly formatted on A4 printer paper.

Do games even have instruction manuals? It's all tutorials and loading screen hints these days. looks wistfully into sunset

You can buy old games on ebay that will come with manuals. Some games have guides or extra manuals etc you can buy What are you looking for?

 

[DotCommunist]

flight simulator used to come with a manual bigger than the bible

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

Yeah. Back when you wanted a joystick for your pc.

 

[Silas Loom]

The Jet Set Willy II manual came with a long grid of tiny labelled squares in different colours which at the time was an unbreakable protection against pirating: we may have had tape-to-tape recorders, but colour photocopying was the stuff of a madman’s dreams.

 

[gosub]

The Jet Set Willy II manual came with a long grid of tiny labelled squares in different colours which at the time was an unbreakable protection against pirating: we may have had tape-to-tape recorders, but colour photocopying was the stuff of a madman’s dreams.

easily defeated with doing number substitution on a piece of graph paper.

Tomahawk (Apache simulator) had a thing called lenslok which was an interesting attempt at anti piracy

 

[Silas Loom]

easily defeated with doing number substitution on a piece of graph paper.

Tomahawk (Apache simulator) had a thing called lenslok which was an interesting attempt at anti piracy

Easily defeated by the Romantic Robot Multiface One!

 

[NoXion]

Is there anywhere you can buy game instruction manuals and maps (on that glossy paper)? Used to be part of the experience. It's not the same looking at a PDF on a screen or printing it out badly formatted on A4 printer paper.

eBay? It seems like the vast majority of video games now sold don't even come on physical storage media any more. So when it comes to newer releases, physical copies with printed manuals and other physical goodies are largely relegated to "special editions" produced in relatively small quantities by specialist companies such as the likes of Limited Run Games.