Most expensive manual ever?

[Mayhem]

Ho-lee crapballs... I have this btw hah hah... I wonder if it'll go through...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/181312903514?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649

[speedlolita]

What the heck?

Also I heard about a Bram Stoker's Dracula in Finnish selling for a lot recently on the 8-4 Play podcast.

http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/01/someone-has-bid-1200-for-a-finnish-language-manual-to-an-nes-game/

[Mayhem]

It was the manual to the Starwing Challenge cartridge, the one used for the contest back in 1993. Aka the Starfox Weekend in the US. This is the only other copy I've seen aside from the one I own.

[endo]

Bizarre- the seller's in Donaghadee, a small place in NI, but coincidentally my folks live there. I'll have to ask my brother if he knows who this is, SNES rarities not being exactly thick on the ground there, as you can imagine.

[moonwhistle]

Just wait until the counterfeiters start making copies of that manual. It already looks like a homemade job. Ebay is awash with fake boxes and manuals and nobody seems to care.

[Gentlepoke]

Not a bad piece of gaming history, yet I do wonder if it really should be worth that much as I'm sure it's possible to manufacture one which looks like an official manual.

[Fantasystarer]

Do you still have the manual ?

[Fantasystarer]

Do you still have the manual ?

Ho-lee crapballs... I have this btw hah hah... I wonder if it'll go through...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1813129035...84.m1423.l2649

[JazzFunk]

Even if I won three lotteries in a row, I wouldn't pay that for a manual.

I wouldn't pay for a manual full stop. I'd Google it.

Jesus H Grapes.

[Solar]

Surprised I didn't see this thread before....4 years ago.

Is there much of market for game manuals, cart stickers/labels and box reproductions? Because my best mate has his own printing business with some major professional equipment and other funky stuff.
He is always asking me to throw work his way and this could be a good opportunity to work along side him.

[Colin]

The amount of people bootlegging retro games these days (and eejits willing to buy them) would suggest yes.

[importaku]

They don't call it bootlegging anymore, they use the fancy term of reproductions for their janky pirate carts.

[replicashooter]

Weird isn't it how the game changed like that. I said similar on the everdrive thread and how piracy has had a makeover of sorts due to insane pricing that eBay bought to the fore. Ol "genuine imitation" ass fools.