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[lushgirl_80]

I was thumbing through the game manual of Sonic 2 today and thought about this....I was impressed leafing through it,nice Japanese style drawings and an easy read. Made me think what are some other good instruction manuals. I also have a fat stack of Atari 2600 and Intellivision manuals and I just love looking through them cos it's like a time capsule.

Anyways I think the coolest game manual I've read is the one for Legend of Zelda. That one looks really nice and has some cool drawings in it.

[high voltage]

The early VCS manuals from Atari were ace, there was lots to read giving you some (usually) sci-fi story.

[Megaman Legends]

Probably the cheapest are the vectrex manuals no color not much of an effort to make a good cover the manual...

[Ransom]

I always appreciated the thought behind the "Fun of Discovery" section in each Coleco game's manual.

But my favorite manual of all time is the A8 one for Star Raiders. It's big, it explains everything, and it really gets you into the scenario.