Found them...

[brihyn]

It took some searching, but I knew my OCD-adled youth wouldn't have allowed me to throw things away.

Found my old collection of 2600 manuals at the parent's house over Christmas. I think these were most of the games I got new....majority of my games were purchased used.
The best part was the different game catalogs were filled with circles and X's so that my parents would know which games I wanted on my future Christmas lists (and thinking back, I don't think they ever actually bought a game off of my lists anyway....)

[Slippyblade]

Wow.  The lost art of instruction manuals.  So often anymore I open a new game and the extent of the instructions is a pic of the controller with action call-outs.

[ark_ader]

I have some of those and C64 game manuals, including a boxed Elite for the Electron.

It amazes me how they ever survived the constant transatlantic moves I did.  I wished I could say the same for the hardware....

[hypernova]

Wow.  The lost art of instruction manuals.  So often anymore I open a new game and the extent of the instructions is a pic of the controller with action call-outs.

Now I've seen a few with nothing but an in-game manual.

[Hoopz]

I remember reading through every word of the Intellivision manuals on the car ride home from the store.  Mom would take my sister and me out to the store and I'd spend the entire ride home reading and rereading the manuals so I knew how to play as soon as I got home.

[yotsuya]

I remember reading through every word of the Intellivision manuals on the car ride home from the store.  Mom would take my sister and me out to the store and I'd spend the entire ride home reading and rereading the manuals so I knew how to play as soon as I got home.

Same here, but with Atari games. I was one of those dopey kids who knew the "backstory" to each game, like in Missile Command that it was warlike Krytol vs peaceful Zardon (and not Russia nuking the US, I swear!).

And those Atari Force comics were THE ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---!

[Hoopz]

Did you read, reread, and then reread again the various video game mags?  Electronic Fun with computers and games etc?  I would pick one up whenever at the book store and read the damn thing for weeks on end.

The place to acquire various files does have a torrent of said periodicals.  Definitely worth a download for anyone interested.

[brihyn]

During the early years of my career when I was doing desktop support I swear I learned more on how to maintain desktops from pc game magazines than I did in my years of school.

So what would be some good ideas to display these game manuals? once my garage/workshop is built this spring I plan on doing something with these (along with an old game system I picked up (currently at work and I can't remember which system it was...similar to the old Sears 4 versions of pong console).

--Update, it was driving me nuts, and it's a slow cold morning here...Tele-Sports IV is the console I have to hang on the wall.