Remember manuals?

May 25, 2008 11:06 PM

Lost your manuals, quick reference cards, and the like for your old games? Fear not! Replacement Docs is here!
posted by Pope Guilty (12 comments total)

PDFs? Is that it? Let me know when they'll ship a Wishbringer stone and some peril-sensitive sunglasses right to my door.
posted by suckerpunch at 11:30 PM on May 25, 2008 [1 favorite]

Let me know when they'll ship a Wishbringer stone and some peril-sensitive sunglasses right to my door.

I can hook you up with a Microscopic Space Fleet. 20 bucks sound good to you?
posted by DecemberBoy at 11:53 PM on May 25, 2008 [1 favorite]

Excellent. Now I'll be able to "replace" all those manuals for the Nintendo DS games that my kids "lost".
posted by teppic at 12:06 AM on May 26, 2008

Yeah, Replacement Docs is standing on rather thin ice, despite the fact that it seems to have been mostly ignored, with only a few legal threats levied against them in the past.

All in all, a valuable resource for a retro gaming freak such as myself, but they'd probably be safer with a "can't buy it new" policy like that of Home of the Underdogs.
posted by lifeless at 12:44 AM on May 26, 2008

This is good. For some reason I still have to old manuals for ancient DOS games like F-117A Nighthawk and Gunship 2000, and I think if I scanned and uploaded them to this site I'd probably feel okay with throwing them out.
posted by Ritchie at 2:52 AM on May 26, 2008

Boy, I sure do love it when some site gathers up a bunch of manuals, throws a bunch of ads around the links, and then watermarks these manuals they didn't scan with their website.
posted by jscott at 3:59 AM on May 26, 2008 [2 favorites]

Is there one of these for bread machines and mysterious old VCRs and the like?
posted by By The Grace of God at 4:29 AM on May 26, 2008 [1 favorite]

Handy for the old school games, for sure. Can see them getting shut down though if they were to try it with a newer game like GTA. It'll be whooooosh, lawsuit, takedown.
posted by triv at 5:49 AM on May 26, 2008

Maybe now I can finally figure out how to actually play E.T. Oh wait. No, I can't.
posted by SemioticRobotic at 6:42 AM on May 26, 2008 [1 favorite]

Killer find, my ROMs thank you. Finally got a Electroplankton manual, a gorgeous little tome.
posted by porn in the woods at 9:56 AM on May 26, 2008

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Awesome. Great entertainment value, alone.
posted by Durn Bronzefist at 10:12 PM on May 26, 2008

I actually used this a few times in the last month, found a codewheel that I needed for Hillsfar, the map for QFG2.
posted by bertrandom at 3:27 AM on May 27, 2008