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"Nearly two years ago, we discussed a fascinating project spearheaded by one
dedicated person, going by the moniker Peebs, to digitize every video game
manual’s English version for the Super Nintendo system. For those of you not of
a certain age, video games used to come in the form of cartridges that you
would load into the console. Those cartridges came packaged with game manuals
that did everything from tell you how to play the game, up to and including
game lore and backstory. Again, if you were born at the right time like yours
truly, reading the manual upon buying the game, sometimes in the back of your
Mom’s Plymouth Voyager minivan on the way back from Toys ‘R Us, was part of the
excitement.
But, for a variety of reasons including both the timespan since these games
came out, the physical nature of the manuals, and Nintendo’s neglect when it
comes to preservation, these bits of gaming culture were under threat of
historical erasure. Where Peebs and his volunteers came in was in spending
nearly a decade collecting and digitizing those manuals without collecting a
dime in payment, donations, or ad revenue. Two years ago, the project had about
100 manuals to go to be complete.
Today, however, the project is done and Peebs’ group says it has digitized
every single English language SNES game manual out there."
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*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
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https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
