Nintendo uploads scans of original NES game manuals
Choose between digital manuals or scans of the booklets that came with every NES 'Game Pak' included in its classic console.
A user on NeoGAF pointed out that Nintendo has uploaded scans of the original manuals from all 30 games included with the NES Classic Edition, Nintendo's miniaturized version of its breakthrough console that went on sale today.
Following the link to Nintendo's repository of instruction manuals gives you two options for each game: an electronic manual, webpage-like documents baked into Virtual Console games on the Wii and Wii U; or scans of authentic game manuals.
It's interesting to "flip through" manuals and see how much instruction booklets have changed over the years. For instance, Capcom illustrated Mega Man 2's power-ups rather than using in-game artwork. That choice—perhaps made for style, or to conserve resources: Mega Man 2 was a skunkworks project at Capcom due to executives being down on the original game's poor sales—adds a certain charm lacking in today's homogenized digital instructions.
(The Mega Man nerd in me insists on pointing out that the illustrations resemble Mega Man 1's life and weapon pellets, rather than the styles incorporated in Mega Man 2 onward.)
Nintendo's NES Classic is a hot-ticket item, as Nintendo knew it would be. It sold out online months before it hit shelves today, and brick-and-mortar stores ran out of stock within minutes of doors opening this morning. Scalpers are flipping their mini Nintendos for $200+ on eBay.
Nintendo is aware of the shortage—odds are it manufactured the situation to drive demand, a tactic it's used to great financial gain in the past—and says more will be shipped to retailers and online outlets such as Amazon soon.
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Finally we can beat Star Tropics.
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It was a separate insert that came with the game, written as a letter from your uncle.
Funny enough a lot of people discarded it, despite having a note on the bottom telling you that it was important and not to discard it until the end of the game.
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