Best FC / Disk System Manuals & Pack-Ins

[compile_6502]

While the Japanese absolutely triumphed over the West as far as box art, cartridge variations and colors and overall # of releases, the NES releases often seemed to have way better manuals, fold out maps, etc.

What are some of the best paper items included with Famicom in your opinion?

[Nightstar699]

Any manual that has tons of enemy/boss drawings, and exclusive art in general - off the top of my head, those of Tiny Toons, Holy Diver, Bucky O' Hare, and Samurai Pizza Cats are a few of my favorites. Gourmet World and Don Doko Don 2 also have pretty nice manuals.

[compile_6502]

Any manual that has tons of enemy/boss drawings, and exclusive art in general

Yes, exactly.  Or sometimes it's cool to know the official names of levels, enemies, items etc that are not actually mentioned in game.

[Shumi Nagaremono]

Mother has a *fantastic* manual/map pack in. 

Zelda no Densetsu has a terrific manual...and stickers!

[compile_6502]

Mother has a *fantastic* manual/map pack in. 

Zelda no Densetsu has a terrific manual...and stickers!

Oh, yeah Mother does have that huge fold out book.

Some of those first party Nintendo FDS manuals are pretty amazing, I agree.  Both Zeldas, Metroid, and Hikari Shinwa etc

I didn't know Zelda had stickers though.

[hippy dave]

Bumping a decade-old thread because I just learned to my surprise that the instructions that come with the disk-writer version of Metroid, as well as having all the cool enemy art that's in other versions of the manual, also has a FULL detailed map of the game (not the little outlines-of-the-whole-areas map that's in the retail FDS and NES manuals). This changes everything. Well, some things.

https://www.gamingalexandria.com/highquality/fds/Metroid/Metroid%20(Disk%20Writer).pdf