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[-[/ Kirkland's  Manual Labor \]-]
[-[      Sony PlayStation      ]-]
[-[       100%-ish USA         ]-]
[-[\        4K Edition        /]-]

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For Sony's 30th Anniversary of the PlayStation:

I present to you..
a manual scan of every US-released Playstation game.
All the Logbox releases.
All the (known) LightSpan Adventures releases. 
Almost all available black-label jewel case releases-
with under 20 Greatest Hits variant placeholders until those can be sourced.

[[ 1288 of 1288 ]] games
[[  102 of 102  ]] Long boxes
[[   82 of 82   ]] LightSpan Adventures
[[  a bunch of  ]] maps & posters

https://ps1.videogamemanual.com/
(forwarding at new host is working- woot!)

A lot of manuals have poor covers, but the insides are quite legible-
still far better than the 500-ish poorly scanned/typed manuals that were previously available.
Since this is just a on-screen edition, editing was sparse.
A future update will clean some of these up, as well as replace some poorer copies.

There are a handful of early LightSpan releases with no known manuals for them.
Also, someday I'd like to get the Teacher's Guides scanned..
if anyone has some sets lying around (hint hint).

Pretty much tapped out on this console for now,
unless I can crowdsource the spendy ones.

I'll post a magnet (torrent) link in the next few days- 
so you don't have to hammer my site for individuals.
Due to the Canada Post strike I'm waiting on a couple replacement manuals before that goes live.

up next...
Genesis? OG XBox? Bally Astrocade?!?

Enjoy!

Jonathan Grimm


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Tyler McDorman. The man- the myth - the legend.
  I put out a progress report earlier in the year just to (cry mostly), err, get "a feel for the landscape".
  And Tyler stepped up.  He sent me over 200 PlayStation manuals I was missing to scan.
  Up until then, a complete set looked very far off.  After his contribution, I dug in to make it happen.

Betonar on Reddit.
  While I was idling, he drummed up support across multiple channels and really pushed the project forward.

The Mrs. - Damn, this hobby *is* expensive..

Lee Turcotte.
  When I finally got down to a handful of missing, he stepped up from his personal collection and topped it off.

Jason "Dangerboy" Dvorak of Game-Rave.com fame.
  When no one else had a Psychic Detective or Starblade Alpha, he scanned his own to contribute.
  Then he kicked in all the maps & posters- Thanks!!


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US SNES : DONE!
https://archive.org/details/snes-kirklands-manual-labor?tab=collection

US PlayStation 2 : DONE!
https://archive.org/details/ps2-kirklands-manual-labor?tab=collection

US PlayStation : Yawhoops! Not on Archive.org yet- waiting to replace some poor copies first.

Atari 7800 : Colorized book posted- check out the PDF or buy a hard copy to support future projects.

{=====/* Work in Progress /======}
Over 8,000 manuals obtained
500 NES and 400 Genesis have been fed to the beast, editing awaits..

** Crowdsourcing assistance is needed:
Sega Genesis
Microsoft XBox

Magnavox Odyssey 2 scanned- needs editing
Xbox 360 digital set updated/uploaded
Atari 2600 mostly scanned - both missing International Atari Corp acquired.
All the staples popped on my XBox manuals. Hmm..

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*shaking fist at Adobe* "Why no batch file creating PDFs!"

If anyone is interested in assisting with acquiring missing manuals,
scanning yourself or submitting manuals to me to scan and ship back,
or properly editing original scans to speed this process up contact:

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or if you've got a couple spare bucks to further the cause:
PayPal: jgrimm@atensionspan.com
Venmo: Jonathan-Grimm-23
Oddly when a couple extra bucks hit my bank account, I snag an uncommon off EBay.

v8.1
12/03/2024
10:11pm