RETRO REPOSITORIES FOR THE LOST ART OF THE MANUAL
From one lost art to the next, Metafilter has spotted two fantastic repositories for scanned/PDF’d manuals for games both old and new. Most notable is Vimm’s Lair, which stocks over 350 each for the NES and PlayStation, as well as hundreds more for earlier systems, and Meekeo does the same for the more modern (and commenters call out ReplacementDocs for the PC set).
Edge magazine recently ran a nicely done requiem for/celebration of the dying breed of carefully attentive manuals, and the sadly antiquated practice of including ephemeral ‘feelies’ (cloth/foldout maps and the like). I’ve got especially fond memories of the lavish anime-esque (a term I wouldn’t know existed for another 15 years) artwork that graced the NES’s Zelda manuals for filling in the gaps between the 8-bit iconography and the ‘reality’ it represented.
Online Game Manuals (for free!) | MetaFilter
See more posts about: Offworld Originals
