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Bonus Video - My Favourite Instruction Booklets
🕑 Added 2024-09-27 12:58:05 +0000 UTCHi Patrons!
My latest video (coming later today!) is all about mysterious games - including the wonderful Tunic. A game where you piece together the pages of a retro-style instruction manual.
Playing this game got me super nostalgic for the booklets that came with old games - so I decided to make a bonus companion video where I flick through the manuals for games like Zelda, Mario, and Pokemon to look at the gorgeous illustrations, handy tips, and bizarre translations.
I also realise that old games were perhaps not as mysterious as I assumed... provided you actually had the manual to hand!
Anyway, hope you dig it - I'll share the actual GMTK episode in the coming hours.
Mark
Comments
SHAMANWOLF 1594
I LOVED this!! Nostalgia is my weakness. Reading an Instruction manual was a ritual before playing any new game. My first NES being received in 1989 and SNES is 1991 when it was released. My art was inspired by these relics. This was a great video. Would love to learn how deep your collection goes. I have over 100 classic NES manuals myself....I only need to hold one to bring me a dose of joy.
Paul
I got a say that the tease of this from the Making Mystery video got me to (finally!) become a patron. I used to always read the manual for the game on the drive home from the store before I even got a chance to start it up.
Stephen Dowling
One of my favourite gaming memories is reading the Baldurs Gate manual on the bus on the way home. The options and possibilities seemed endless and I was so excited to choose paths through the character development. Reality could never match what I saw in my imagination, alas
Lasse Haukka
A Link to the Past instruction booklet looks really nice!
James Humphreys
I am so glad that as a kid I saved the boxes and manuals for all of my games starting with the Super Nintendo, and thanks to one Funcoland employee that ripped me off on the trade in value of my games because I didn't have that, so I kept them and didn't trade in any more games, thus making that stance pointless until the collector market really started My favorites were always the ones that had a little extra, like Earthworm Jim, which had a full comic. One of the few that I had from before the SNES is the comic that came with Centipede for the Atari 2600 (yes I am that old), and it is absolutely fantastic, giving real story to a game that really didn't need one at all. If you have a chance, hunt down a scan of that. It is wonderful
Mithos56
Fallout's manual was a wonder!
Adam Moeller
My favorite manual will always be Golden Sun. It was ridiculously thick because it tried to explain everything about the games unique mechanics. I got the game for Christmas and spent most of the day just reading that manual without ever loading the cartridge into my GBA.
