Comments on: Online Game Manuals (for free!)

Online Game Manuals (for free!)

Effigy2000 — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:24:11 -0800

Bought a video game second hand and found it doesn't have a manual? Or have you been thinking about that great manual that came with that copy of The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past you owned years ago and wouldn't mind taking a look through it again? Well, help is at hand! Vimm offers you heaps of free pdf manuals from retro systems as old as the Atari 2600 and as recent as the N64! Meanwhile Meekeo does much the same, although it mostly looks after current generation systems (including the PC) only. Finally, if you own a Nintendo Wii, DS, Gamecube or Gameboy Advance, Nintendo is offering up full colour pdfs of games they publish(ed) for these systems, as well as manuals for some of their older games.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:34:05 -0800

Supplemental: there's never been a time when I looked for a PC game manual that it wasn't on Replacement Docs.

By: uncanny hengeman

uncanny hengeman — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:35:16 -0800

Or have you been thinking about that great manual that came with that copy of The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past you owned years ago and wouldn't mind taking a look through it again? ??? Superb! I'll be looking online for Lego instructions soon. One boy at the age where he drops things and hasn't quite got the smarts to put them back together. And one in nappies who loves to DESTROY any printed material he can get his hands on. Not a good mix. Recently I put together a smashed Lego cargo truck "road train" sans instructions and I dead set deserve a Nobel prize for my brilliance. But I won't be doing that again in a hurry. 12/27/08. Nevarr forget. /off topic //slightly

By: mediocre

mediocre — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:20:53 -0800

This is great! I used to bring the books to school and read them during our daily quiet reading time. Back then books had a lot of awesome art since the games themselves didn't, and most of the story was usually told in the book since games didn't really at the time. The Zelda and Metroid books were two of my favorites.

By: ALongDecember

ALongDecember — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:08:25 -0800

I'll be looking online for Lego instructions soon. Here ya go. Via this FPP.

By: hellojed

hellojed — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:39:34 -0800

Yes! I downloaded Tribes 2 and have been having the worst time trying to figure everything out, this is awesome. Thanks.

By: hellojed

hellojed — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:40:39 -0800

Huh, nothing for PC, bugger....

By: illuminatus

illuminatus — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:46:11 -0800

I needed this last week, to look up the names of all the monsters in Legend of Zelda I was destroying!

By: Effigy2000

Effigy2000 — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:52:36 -0800

h3llojed, here's the Tribes 2 manual via the website stavros linked to up-thread.

By: hellojed

hellojed — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:10:42 -0800

oh, silly me for missing that, thanks!

By: pwnguin

pwnguin — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:11:30 -0800

You know, there was a time when Nintendo would actually sue people who sold or rented games with photocopies of their manuals. This seems like an uncharacteristic turn about-face for a company who was previously willing to punish economic activity that affected their bottom line.

By: uncanny hengeman

uncanny hengeman — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:23:16 -0800

Thankyou, ALongDecember.

By: spamguy

spamguy — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:04:34 -0800

I was at Meekeo the other day seeking a manual for the used copy of Xenosaga I I bought. (Because, hey, Xenosaga is too fucking complicated for what amounts to two hours of actual RPG.) The site has nothing of interest: their PlayStation 2 section has all of three manuals. The rest have been litigated out of existence, probably.

By: spamguy

spamguy — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:07:13 -0800

Thank god for replacementdocs, though.

By: caution live frogs

caution live frogs — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:07:45 -0800

pwnguin, the local rental place in my hometown used to include photocopied manuals for any game we rented. This didn't bother me, because I understood the potential frustration of renting a game with no available manual. What pissed me off is that they would charge a hefty fee for replacing the shitty photocopy if we lost it. They treated it as if we had lost the original manual and charged us approximately what it would have cost them to buy an original replacement from Nintendo. Not surprisingly, the only reason this store survived is that it was in a small tow with no big-box rental stores nearby. With the recent rise of Gamefly and Netflix, the place is pretty much defunct these days. I feel no pity.

By: SpiffyRob

SpiffyRob — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:39:12 -0800

FINALLY. I've been waiting 19 years! *finds StarTropics manual* *scrolls to uncle's letter* *dips monitor in wat--......