A Super Fan Collected Every Super Nintendo Game Manual and Made Them Free

A Twitch streamer has crowdsourced the manuals for upwards of 850 unique Super Nintendo games and made them free on an online archive. From a report: Video game consoles have come a long way since the Super Nintendo arrived in the U.S. in 1991 and launched a new generation of gamers, but sometimes there is no beating the classics. The console was wildly popular, with more than 700 games released for the system in the U.S., and Kerry Hays (aka 'Peebs' on the Twitch streaming platform) has been working on beating every. single. one. 'We had wondered, some of these games, had anyone ever even beaten them before? They were so weird and obscure or difficult,' he said. And so, Hays turned to the manuals.

For those who weren't playing a lot of video games in the '90s, almost all of them came with a manual inside the case that had lots of helpful information. The manual was where you would find the buttons to push and how the console works. It could also include your lore, backstory, and maybe even a map. 'And if you're really lucky, you get a little bit of a walkthrough that would tell you, like, the first 10% of the game,' Hays said. The collection is hosted on the Internet Archive and contains upwards of 850 unique Super Nintendo manuals -- and it's all free. Hays says he's not in it for the money.

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