Oct 25th, 2022, 05:20 PM
So I just saw Kotaku reporting that every U.S. PS2 game manual has been scanned in 4K and uploaded online, and was going to share it in General Game Chat but figured since game manuals are basically non-existent nowadays, it'd be nice to just have a thread to talk about these things as a whole instead.
I find it crazy that someone managed to get a copy of every PS2 game manual to make scans of them. I'd have thought this would have been a group effort since that's so many games and I would expect a number of them to be really hard to find, but from what I can tell that doesn't seem to be the case. The Kotaku article also mentions a SNES manual archive too but I didn't look into it at all yet to know how that was compiled. Anyway, I might check out some of the manuals of games I own to see if there's any notable differences I can find in the US manuals compared to the UK ones or if they're practically the same except for some changes to spellings or word choices due to the differences in US and UK English.
So along with that, does anyone have any fond memories of game manuals as a whole or of particular ones? Do you miss seeing them in game cases, or do you feel indifferent about that?
I find it crazy that someone managed to get a copy of every PS2 game manual to make scans of them. I'd have thought this would have been a group effort since that's so many games and I would expect a number of them to be really hard to find, but from what I can tell that doesn't seem to be the case. The Kotaku article also mentions a SNES manual archive too but I didn't look into it at all yet to know how that was compiled. Anyway, I might check out some of the manuals of games I own to see if there's any notable differences I can find in the US manuals compared to the UK ones or if they're practically the same except for some changes to spellings or word choices due to the differences in US and UK English.
So along with that, does anyone have any fond memories of game manuals as a whole or of particular ones? Do you miss seeing them in game cases, or do you feel indifferent about that?