NES manuals for sale on Nintendo's site+ Scans of current manuals

[rbudrick]

http://store.nintendo.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?catalogId=10001&storeId=10001&langId=-1&currency=USD&ignoreCrumbs=N&crumb1=&crumb1Ignore=&crumb2=%253CA%2BHREF%253D%2522javascript%253APassO n%2528%2527X%2527%252C%2B%2527ChooseView%2527%252C %2527%2527%252C%2B%2527%2527%2529%253B%2522%253EOr iginal%2BNES%253C%252FA%253E&crumb2Ignore=&crumb3=&crumb3Ignore=&translateFrom=%C8%C9%C7&translateTo=EEC&usrSearchText=&searchText=&selSrchType=&page=&view=&productId=&categoryId=14765&lastAction=CategoryDisplay&orderTotal=null

Who knew?

Oh, and for pdfs of modern manuals:

http://www.nintendo.com/consumer/manuals/index.jsp#game

Pretty sweet resource. Just a heads-up, for anyone who didn't know.

-Rob

[Push Upstairs]

Yeah, but when you click on a game it says at the bottom "the manual you receive may be a photocopy of the original."

:mad:

[Kitsune Sniper]

Aren't these photocopies?

I think they mentioned this a while back... or maybe I'm thinking of Sega.

[mario2butts]

I started a thread about this a while back

http://www.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?t=80902&highlight=nintendo+manuals+online+store

A few months ago I bought two GameCube manuals that I needed (Wind Waker and Animal Crossing). Both were originals. But from what people were saying in the other thread, it sounds like the NES manuals they have are guaranteed to be oversized photocopies.

[DefaultGen]

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[Blitzwing256]

The quality of what they sent was very nice, I ordered a bunch of the rpg ones out of curiousity, most of what they sent me were photocopies but they did send me a few original manuals (kirby wario woods and dw3) amongst the rest. neat little nintendo collectables to be sure.

[DefaultGen]

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[whoisKeel]

A couple years ago I ordered a Metroid Prime manual (because I bought used and it didn't have one).

I got a nice, brand new original. The game was still newer-ish at the time-ish.

[Kitsune Sniper]

Well, I'm guessing they still have some manuals in stock... and if they run out, they just send you the photocopy. *shrugs*

[XxHennersXx]

Maybe they keep a last original to photo copy...but what if some doofus accidentally ships out the last original? And they have no photocopies? Would they email you asking to send it back? hahaha..

[Ed Oscuro]

Probably easy as hell for them to have a mismatch between the number of games made and the number of manuals produced (or they might get volume discounts, who knows). I'd guess they warehouse the things until somebody buys one.

[GarrettCRW]

Probably easy as hell for them to have a mismatch between the number of games made and the number of manuals produced (or they might get volume discounts, who knows). I'd guess they warehouse the things until somebody buys one.

I suspect the surplus also exists because of games used for the old Game Counselors, returns, overstock from the employee store, and due to game paks that were rejected for quality control purposes.