Having selected a game that I could afford – which was often likely to be one of the underrated SNES games, rather than one of the console’s much more expensive RPGs (check out our best SNES RPGs list!) – I’d then spend the journey home by tube and overground train, absorbing every bit of information in the game’s manual. Rewind back to the early 90s: as a young teenager with a SNES and not much money, I would have to travel from North London to the West End to buy games, as – at that time – the only real option for me were affordable second hand games sold by CEX, or as it was then known, The Tottenham Court Road Computer Exchange. Thankfully, every single SNES manual has now been uploaded online and each one is available to check out, completely free of charge!īefore we take a look at how this came to be, let’s first explain one very personal reason why we at Retro Dodo believe that this sort of preservation is so important.

The SNES was home to some of the very best manuals of all time – not to mention some of the best games of all time (check out our list of the best selling SNES games here!) – and seeing these wonderful booklets now creates a real sense of nostalgia, as well as some sadness at the loss of printed media with our games.

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