Have you kept the manuals to your games?

[NikoAE86]

Yes I always keep them,I still have manuals from games like Doom psx version,PS2 GTA's...it sucks that manuals have become a rare thing nowadays and gaming stores throw away the manuals when you buy a second hand game which I don't know the reason but...

 

[strawberry29]

yup! some of them even have jokes or ads about new games that will be out (ps2) it's like the first thing i use for tips or even the control layout

 

[Tonberry]

I’ve never deliberately gotten rid of them, but many of them have sadly perished growing up due to being certified bathroom reading, then staying there while people shower, making them all wavy and stiff.

 

[TechBlisSTer]

Yes I always keep them,I still have manuals from games like Doom psx version,PS2 GTA's...it sucks that manuals have become a rare thing nowadays and gaming stores throw away the manuals when you buy a second hand game which I don't know the reason but...

I sure didn't throw away manuals. I kept a giant plastic tote tub above a display case with bags of manuals separated by platform for manuals I didn't have games for. I can't count how many times I've gone into that tub to find a manual to complete a boxed game or console. I also have matched original stickered rental manuals to their matching rental cartridges that I got in separately from different people. I know a copy of Super Mario Bros 2 that I was able to put back together like that. I know so many people were pissy about rental games and stickers, but I always thought they told a story more than hurt the value of what ever manual or cartridge they were stuck to. Sure would be nice if people just left the stickers on instead of trying to rip them off and destroying the labels. I even had a pretty rare Sports Title for NES someone was looking for that had a rental sticker on it. He didn't want it all, but I told him I could have that sticker off and you'd never even know it ever had a sticker on it. He left. I spent ten minutes removing the sticker from the label the right way. And sure enough you couldn't tell it ever had a sticker on it. It's basically mint because it probably was never rented out even once. And he never came back...

 

[Adrastia]

Unless I lose them I still have any manual that came with a game. I also have a bag full of GBC and GBA manuals that I may or may not have all the games for.

Back in the 8 and 16 bit days we had a video store called Video Force. When you rented a game they'd also include the manual if they had it. And me and my brother usually kept them. So we had a big stack of NES manuals tucked between the TV and the side rail of the TV table. I realise now we shouldn't have kept them. But video Force never asked us about it and some other kid would have done it anyway.

I wish I still had them as they'd be fun to look through. But I moved so many times that I hardly have anything left from my childhood.

 

[GuyZero32k4]

YES to all of them. I don't consider them to be complete unless it has it. Don't like how modern releases began to do away with them. Even when I do buy retro games: "Oh it doesn't have the manual?" Use Samoa Joe's move, out of the sale.:

Even the TMNT NES version with the Pizza Hut coupon, I never used it.

 

[Yousef Yousef]

Every single time. I consider them art, and essential part of the package. I’d never throw them out no matter how hard I was pressured about it.

 

[Dyne]

I have the cool hardcover one for Lunar on PS1. Thats about it.
I wish I had kept them all, but I really didnt keep much from my childhood/teenage years.

 

[rugal]

i always keept the manuals never throw them away
still have manuals for ps1 games that did break so i did haft to throw away the game disc but i keept the manual
around 90 percent of all my games have manuals
the 10 percent that do not have manual are games i did buy second hand without manual

 

[zalen0]

Keeping the hundreds, no thousands of physical game manuals for my ps2 and ps1 games is a rich persons game. Just dont have enough space...

Lol all jokes aside, when I was younger I tried, but after moving lots it just wasnt feasible. Im glad other game hobbyists have taken the time to scan their own manuals, and just collecting them in digital format seems good enough for now.

 

[Eric555]

Yes, of course. I don't see a reason not to keep them. I even look up and DL manuals from games I got from the Repo and such. Like some mentioned before, manuals have gameplay related information in it that's quite handy to have.