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🗓️ 16 October 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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By request of patron Jeff Vlasek, Jeremy Parish gathers together with Frank Cifaldi, Jason Wilson, and Nadia Oxford to discuss the mysteries and magic of game manuals. They're a lost art! But are we better off that way?! Cover art: Step Sybydlo.
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0:00.0 | Hey everyone, it's Jeremy Parrish again here to introduce our latest bi-weekly patron-exclusive episode. |
0:06.4 | This time we feel a patron request to talk about video game manuals. |
0:10.9 | Now that's a challenging topic for a non-visual medium like a podcast. |
0:15.8 | So to help me out, I've recruited Jason Wilson, Frank Sepaldy, and Nadia Oxford. |
0:20.7 | Not only to talk about the impact and importance and role of manuals in classic video games, |
0:25.9 | but also how just having access to them and reading them in the car on the way home and so on and |
0:31.4 | so forth helped feed the classic game experience that made us love the medium. |
0:36.2 | This episode is available exclusively to our patrons who support us at the $5 a month level or higher, |
0:42.4 | but supporting us there gets you more than just bi-weekly podcasts. |
0:47.1 | You also get exclusive access to this weekend retro columns by Diamond Fight, |
0:51.8 | which are accompanied by a mini podcast each weekend, |
0:54.8 | as well as Discord access, and just a general sense of feeling good about yourself. |
1:00.4 | Now you may not know if this is the right financial investment for you and we understand |
1:04.7 | the regular Monday episodes are always going to be free, |
1:07.5 | but for those of you who want the exclusive goodies, |
1:10.1 | you can head over to patreon.com slash returnats and sign up at the $5 a month level or higher. |
1:15.8 | And if you're sitting on the fence, well, just listen to this excerpt from the manuals episode |
1:19.9 | and decide for yourself if RetroNots is right for you. It is patreon.com slash returnats. |
1:30.0 | So you've got that printed on letter size paper, two pages per sheet, but I don't think that's |
1:35.7 | actual resolution. This is larger. Yeah, this is larger. Actually, what's the most |
1:38.9 | of these things were like pocket guys. Yeah, that's like the large print Bible version. |
1:42.1 | Yeah, but what was interesting about these was you got not only the manuals, but how to put it |
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