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3763576 No.3763576 [Reply] [Original]

I agree with Cranky. Did anyone ever actually use the notes pages in instruction manuals? What's the point?

>> No.3763581

I think I did a few times, but only because I felt like I was supposed to and it might have some value. It was never worth doing though.

>> No.3763586

just the ones from rented games aka curse-words and dicks all over the place

>> No.3763587

Getting a brand new cart with its box and instruction booklet and everything was so rare in my society that I treated the damn things like they were made of the most fragile glass.

>> No.3763593

>>3763576

I used to write my codes down on paper plates., much easier to not lose than a sheet of paper

>> No.3763605

>>3763576
I had a few notebooks to record passwords, and work out stuff.

This was pre-gamefaqs so I had stuff in there like where are all the heart tanks and e-tanks were in Mega Man X and how to get them.

Same thing with what to do in Zelda 1, and 2. Or howt o get the warp whistles in SMB3.

I guess that's how I got into writing walkthroughs and shit.

I wonder if I still have them laying around at my moms house.

>> No.3763607
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>>3763576
If you're a scrub faggot then you might need to write shit down instead of memorizing it or figuring it out on your own.

Some people just couldn't git gud.

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>>3763607
>memorising random strings of letters

>> No.3763947

In the harvest moon 64 notebook I wrote down the dates of holidays.

I think I lost the paper Mario booklet, so I just had all the recipes written down on a regular sheet of printer paper.

>> No.3763963

>>3763576

It genuinely amuses me how they mock the pointless Notes page despite actually having a Notes page.

>> No.3763980

It's because books are bound in increments of four pages. The note pages would be blank otherwise. You can't have a booklet with 13, 14, or 15 pages. If you have 13 necessary pages of content you'll have three left over.

>> No.3764009

I remember our codes for the Lemmings levels were written on something like the back side of a piece of cardboard from a cereal box

>> No.3764023

>>3763576
This isn't just wit

This is Nintoddler wit

>> No.3764025

>>3763980
Can't they just make the spaces between the words a bit bigger?

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>>3763576
I rarely did. That DKC manual is one of the few I actually used. I remember as a kid recording the day I beat Oil Drum Alley after being stuck for a while. Can't remember what else I wrote in it.

I loved that manual as a kid.

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3764039

4 year old me did

>> No.3764059

>>3764039
I can't decipher that at all

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>>3764059
I think I'm making notes on the overworld maps, I was into finding secrets and thought that some of the details on them would lead to secret levels. The "cave" note I think was in reference to the inaccessible cave on this map

>> No.3764163

>>3764039
You are very good at levels.

>> No.3764169

Yes.

Move lists
Cheat codes
Passwords

None of you motherfuckers remember renting games out clearly.

>> No.3764392

>>3763576
>tfw kept being told by my dad to keep anything you own pristine so you can sell them back

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>>3764039

>> No.3764453

Never used it personally, but I've seen enough tagged up manuals to know a lot of kids did.

Rather than notes, I liked when they put a little effort into it. Swords and Serpents actually had grids for each level so you could map out the dungeon as you explored.

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This is the only one I remember making notes in. I found the paper folded up in there, too. I got it from some kid who used to ride the same bus.

Pretty sure I used a lot of manuals to write down level passwords.

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>>3764494
Searching my Sonic 2 manual yielded a gem. I forgot I had this saved. No date, but I got it for Christmas of 1993, as I remember. It was from Caldor. Also, my mom had my grandpa buy it so we could get the senior citizen discount.

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>>3764520
>No date
Oh wait, I see it. December 8th, 1993.

It was also stapled to this receipt for Super Mario Kart. That was a pretty great fuckin' Christmas. I don't remember a Toy Works being in New Bedford, MA.

>> No.3764536

>>3764526
Not a manual, but same difference. Definitely my big brother's handwriting.

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>>3764536
derp

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Game Gear version of Mean Bean Machine.

>Has Bean
I definitely didn't get that joke as a kid. I thought it was actually a kind of bean, probably.

>> No.3764545

>>3763576
Only time I did was on the Jurassic Park GENESIS version, where each level had a code so you could skip to it later when you restarted

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Found this little note in my Game Gear manual for some reason.

>> No.3764569

I used them for passwords and cheat codes but otherwise no.

>> No.3764573

>>3764554
Cool.

In case anybody's wondering, those are both level select codes (for Sonic Triple Trouble and Sonic Chaos).

>> No.3764714

>>3764417
bravo my man

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>>3763576
Interesting story:

>Buddy lets me borrow his copy of Turok
>Beat game, love it, NBD
>A few years later, he's getting rid of his games, offer to take his game manuals as i collected them
>MFW in the back of the Turok Manual, in the notes section, he had written, "I kick the campaginers ass. I kick the games ass"

>> No.3764723

I wasn't allowed to play video games as a kid. When I finally got my first game (Pokémon Yellow) I was scolded for not filling out the notes section of what the missing Pokémon were.

>> No.3764731

>>3763576
I never did, but I remember getting rentals a few times where people had wrote in them. The one I most remember was when I rented Tiny Toons Wacky Sports Challenge. Someone had wrote a bunch of the passwords down, but apparently didn't know the names of the characters it used for the passwords, so they wrote down stuff like "Girl", "Bird" and "Mutt"

>> No.3764740

I just didn't want to ruin the manual by writing in it, but also, I wasn't a smart enough kid to take notes or draw maps for confusing games.

To be fair though, I rarely strayed away from my Mario and sometimes Licensed game safety net as a kid.

>> No.3765196

>>3764723
My god what sort of pathological behavioural problems you had, not filling out the notes section how could you?

>> No.3767406

>>3764025
A E S T H E T I C

would you really want that in your DK Country manual?

>> No.3767448

>>3765196
My parents thought I wasn't being dedicated. Yet I'm still talking about the game here with you fucks, so sick my dick dad.