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I'm yet unsure of exactly what I'll do with this space. The logical thing would be for me to describe myself or something that regards my experience with gaming. But that seems too tedious and boring, I'd rather just leave you with an image for now and let you guess what I'm actually like, or let you gather it from my writing. Someday I'll update this with something relevant.






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I used to translate old SNK manuals for their re-release on Virtual Console. I worked on a series of titles: Art of Fighting, Fatal Fury, King of Fighters '94, Top Hunter, Blue's Journey, even Baseball Stars 2. In order to provide me with more information on which to base my translations, they used to send me the old English manuals in .pdf form along with transcripts of their newer editions.

That series of jobs ended a few months ago, and I realize that I still have all the old original manuals in .pdfs on my PC. The artwork and the writing are fairly unique in that "so-horrible-it-has-got-to-be-a-classic" kind of way, they really bring back nostalgia of that bygone era.

So, while I work away at a far meatier and longer blog-post that's been in construction for a few weeks, I decided I'd start uploading these old manuals to so you guys can take a peek at them. It wouldn't help to revitalize this blog a little.

I've got four manuals total, so I'll be dividing all the images up into four consecutive daily posts (one for each manual), so stay tuned in this week. Here's the first one:


ART OF FIGHTING (1992)



SUPER REAL ACTION GAME! For when reality alone isn't enough there are SUPER REAL pixelated fighters kneeing each other on the head on your TV. Other signs of a SUPER REAL ACTION GAME are artistic representations of a young Steven Seagal, angry Asians, lightning, and kabuki masks with huge noses.



Why does the Italian character have a name that is typically Spanish? I don't know, anything can happen in the world of Art of Fighting, even training an infant to perform lethal karate. Why? - Hey, it's up to you!!!



Ah, the old Neo-Geo controller... the only controller in which the SELECT button paused the game while the START button did absolutely nothing.



More SUPER REAL kneeing.



'Dazzling story screens' in 1992 meant sprited cars and yelling.



Creepy Steven Seagal and creepy Ken say 'YES!' to looking directly at the sun, and a stern 'NO' to being off guard after you start the game. Don't do it!



Above you can see the TRUE, SUPER REAL MANLY ACTION GAME way to open bottles and make crushed ice. If you don't open your bottles and make your ice this way, then you are a big, floppy vagina, and you'll never, ever unlock the ULTRA-SUPER ATTACK SCREEN, the MANLIEST, SUPER REAL screen of them all (even more so than 'dazzling story screens') - IT'S ULTRA-SUPER!



Seductively calling over obese men in small coats while they are trying to shit is never a good idea. It will lower their SPIRIT (not to be confused with the lower-case version of the word). Also, cosplaying in Southtown will lead to you getting the shit kicked out of.



Gay men dancing by a dumpster. Look at those impressive dancing shoes!



"Oooooh, that stings!" - Steaven Seagal hates dreadlocks.



Ryo's ankles creep the shit out of me. ('Study these carefully, YOUR LIFE MAY DEPEND ON IT' should be a motivational poster in schools.)



To be effective, you must hit rightly the opponent! Don't forget, and do depress those A and B buttons!



What are Ryo, Steven Seagal, and Ryuhaku yelling about? Why is Jack Turner giving me such a naughty look? Why is John Crawley so upset? No one knows, and King certainly doesn't seem to care.



The 'Thousand-Kick Crunch' actually seems to involve three-armed punching. Good thing
you've got that good ol' 'Lighting Legs Knock-Out Kick' if your own lighting isn't very bright.



Steven Seagal boogies out to the beat! Twist and shout baby!



"Gonna get you drunk, get you drunk off my sexy layer-lumps"



Jack Turner entered the bear scene a few years ago, learning his infamous, devastating bubble-gum taunt at a local gay bar.



The Hundred Blows of Hurt?... Seriously just don't mess with Lee Pai Long, he directs a prison AND knows ancient Chinese medicine. There's no way you can beat this bad-ass.

...unless you're Steven Seagal.



HE'S ACTUALLY A GIRL! SURPRISE! AND SHE READS 'THE BOOKS ON ECONOMY'!



Another bad-ass... he's so angry about killing a man that he vents his frustration by killing men. A strange stress-reliever.



...Mega Smash? The Killing Machine? He's got friends? Where'd the 'E' in 'Crawley' go?




Stay tuned for more embarrassing 90's manuals with annoying commentary by me. And please, leave me a comment voting for your favorite ridiculous phrase in this manual, I'd love to see the results.



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So you used to work for SNK then? Rock on.
Why would you need to translate manuals that were already in English? Did they just want you to clean up any "Engrish" that might have remained when they were originally localized?

All of the NEO GEO manuals were pretty bad. I've got Crossed Swords here in my cube at work and it's atrocious.
@Jamm - ...I translated English manuals into Spanish. They sent me transcripts of newer, far better written English manuals for me to translate, and just sent .pdf copies of the old ones as further reference.

@The-Excel - Unfortunately, I only worked for SNK indirectly through a localization company. But it was definitely a fun job.
*sigh* I miss good instruction manuals.
Great post. Wish I had a scanner so I could contribute.
@Shadow-Worm:
Doesn't matter. SNK is still in your CV and that's good enough for me.
whoa...i never saw that manual..
i just remember the big sprite of that game and of course,when the game zoom in...lego art of fighting!
King was always my favorite King of Fighters/Art of Fighting character, but it's pretty funny that they seem to purposely steer clear of gender-specific pronouns when referring to her, as seen with the excessive use of her name in her description. Great stuff, post moar soon =D
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