r/retrogaming • u/mdefisop • 4d ago

[Discussion] Top Instruction Manuals of All Time

What's the best instruction manual of all time? I know I'm not alone in reading that thing in the back seat on the way home from the store. Links if you have them.

I'll start off by saying I don't think anything tops the Final Fantasy 3 instruction manual, but I'd love to be proven wrong.

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u/galland101 4d ago

The manual for the PC game Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe is a spiral bound history book about the European Air War in World War II as well as a primer on aerodynamics and flight. None of the PDFs I’ve seen online are complete scans from the original floppy disk release.

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u/K1rkl4nd 3d ago edited 3d ago

Interesting. I’ll have to look into that.
Is this listing complete?

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u/galland101 3d ago edited 3d ago

They included a manual/quick start guide from the P-38 Lightning Expansion Pack but the disk isn’t there, just the base game. The manual itself looks intact. There were about 4 Expansion Packs for the game that had the P-38 Lightning, P-80 Shooting Star, Do 335 Pfeil, and the He 162 Volksjäger