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Won an original Link's Awakening Game Boy manual on a Goodwill charity auction. Had to share the nostalgia.

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[-] WhoDestroysTheGond@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago

Like those occasional illustrations in Alice in Wonderland or Narnia, game manuals provided a window into a world you couldn't fully see (in the case of old consoles, due to low res or low poly graphics) and served as a jumping off point for so many children's imaginations to fill in the rest of the details.

https://atariage.com/manual_page.php?SystemID=2600&SoftwareLabelID=128&ItemTypeID=MANUAL&currentPage=0

Screenshot of Defender for the Atari 2600 with a spaceship flying around with blocky pixel graphics

Cover of the Defender manual, featuring a realistic painting of humans being abducted by alien spaceships

this post was submitted on 30 May 2024
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