Old Nintendo Instruction Manuals Are Truly Wonderful

Don’t you miss instruction manuals? Or even just paper? I know I do. And these photos make me miss them even more. Over on 2ch, Japan’s biggest online forum, a series of Famicom-era instruction manuals were recently posted. [via 2ch] Like the Famicom instruction manual, for example. This dates from 1983. [via 2ch] A look inside. [via 2ch] This is a manga-style instruction manual Nintendo included, called “It’s a Family Computer!!”cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"e3616d04-4972-4839-a63a-c6975e2e9731","settings":{"advertising":{"macros":{"AD_UNIT":"/23178111854/od.kotaku.com/article","CHILD_UNIT":"article","POST_ID":"1740723002","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"kotaku-east","SECTION":"","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"kotaku-east","TAGS":"nintendo","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); [via 2ch] See? Wonderful stuff. [via 2ch] Xevious, a classic from Namco. [via 2ch] And inside. [via 2ch] Taito’s run-and-gun shooter Front Line. Love the colors. [via 2ch] The drawings are cute, too. [via 2ch] This is The Portopia Serial Murder Case from Enix. Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii designed this game. [via 2ch] Very 1980s-style art, no? Yes. [via 2ch] The highly influential Thexder [via 2ch] The manual points everything out. Literally. [via 2ch] The Famicom Disk System. [via 2ch] The Disk Writer. [via 2ch] A flier regarding the network connection. People forget all the cutting edge things Nintendo has done. Shame on those people. [via 2ch] The Disk System’s illustrated manga-style instruction manual. [via 2ch] So u31.com เข้าสู่ระบบ great. [via 2ch] The Dead Zone manual. [via 2ch] u31 ทางเข้า Here’s the story explanation. Love this 80s art style. [via 2ch] This is known as Crackout in the West. [via 2ch] Fun little instruction manual. [via 2ch] D’aw. [via 2ch] D’aw. [via 2ch] Dragonball, of course. (Of course!) [via 2ch] How to play. [via 2ch] SonSon, u31 เข้าสู่ระบบ which Yoshiki Okamoto designed. [via 2ch] This is terrific. [via 2ch] In case you can read music. I cannot. [via 2ch] Here’s Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei [via 2ch] Cool anime-style illustrations. [via 2ch] Strategy game Sangokushi: Chuugen no Hasha. [via 2ch] Inside. [via 2ch] The instruction manual for this Little Lord Fauntleroy game looked like a newspaper. [via 2ch] This is the other side. [via 2ch] Sweet Home. [via 2ch] The graphics might not look exactly like the drawings, but who cares? There are even more manuals in the 2ch thread. Have a look at when times were simpler and required lots of tree cutting. To contact the author of this post, write to bashcraftATkotaku.com or find him on Twitter@Brian_Ashcraft Kotaku East is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond. Tune in every morning from 4am to 8am.