28th January 2011, 5:35 PM
(This post was last modified: 29th January 2011, 9:11 PM by Dark Jaguar.)
Unfortunately, the local used game stores here stopped even bothering to stock manuals for anything that didn't have a jewel case. It means I end up perusing eBay to round out my manual collection. Fortunately, replacementdocs to the rescue as I can find scans of those two little items online. It's not the same experience, but I intend to play the game after all.
Oh yes, the local used game stores here just list Atari games as "stock Atari game". It makes me wonder how they decide on prices for them, but it also makes it hard to find out if any of their stores carry the other games in the series without visiting them in person.
Edit: Swordquest is at once impressive (for an Atari game) and confusing. 13-7?! What does it MEAN?
Startropics is interesting. There's a tear on the back of the manual, and an odd patch on the back of the leter I got. After looking at pictures of manuals and maps online, I discovered this is VERY common. I looked closely and there's clear signs of glue on both the manual and that odd patch of paper on the letter. The manual's back end notes to "keep this letter", so near as I can tell, the letter came glued to the manual, and all these identical bits of damage are from kids removing the letter from the manual. I imagine even if I'd gotten the game brand new, I'd have done the same damage myself short of steaming it off or something (and if I steamed it, I'd have revealed the hidden frequency in the process I bet :D).
Oh yes, the local used game stores here just list Atari games as "stock Atari game". It makes me wonder how they decide on prices for them, but it also makes it hard to find out if any of their stores carry the other games in the series without visiting them in person.
Edit: Swordquest is at once impressive (for an Atari game) and confusing. 13-7?! What does it MEAN?
Startropics is interesting. There's a tear on the back of the manual, and an odd patch on the back of the leter I got. After looking at pictures of manuals and maps online, I discovered this is VERY common. I looked closely and there's clear signs of glue on both the manual and that odd patch of paper on the letter. The manual's back end notes to "keep this letter", so near as I can tell, the letter came glued to the manual, and all these identical bits of damage are from kids removing the letter from the manual. I imagine even if I'd gotten the game brand new, I'd have done the same damage myself short of steaming it off or something (and if I steamed it, I'd have revealed the hidden frequency in the process I bet :D).
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)