Whenever I rented an N64 game, the manual was in the box, and the store would check to ensure the manual was there when you return the game. That was in Australia though, so maybe it was different in your country?
You can’t really generalise by country in this. Where I lived (NSW South coast) you didn’t even get the box. All the game cartridges were being the counter in a separate generic box with the name printed on it.
The real boxes on the shelves were empty and you didn’t get to take them home.
Yeah, here in the U.S. at Blockbuster you would get a clear plastic case that held the game cartridge and that was it. They must have still kept some of the original boxes in their storage though, because I bought a used copy of Mega Man X for SNES from Blockbuster and it came in it’s original box, but with no manual.
I’m willing to bet it varied by employee diligence. I think it’s much less likely to be a company policy of not giving out the manuals to renters and more likely to be that they didn’t quit renting the game after somebody failed to return the manual.
dan@upvote.au 1 month ago
Whenever I rented an N64 game, the manual was in the box, and the store would check to ensure the manual was there when you return the game. That was in Australia though, so maybe it was different in your country?
BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
You can’t really generalise by country in this. Where I lived (NSW South coast) you didn’t even get the box. All the game cartridges were being the counter in a separate generic box with the name printed on it. The real boxes on the shelves were empty and you didn’t get to take them home.
dan@upvote.au 1 month ago
I didn’t mean to imply that every rental store in Australia did this, just that I lived in Australia and the rental stores I used included the manual.
nafzib@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yeah, here in the U.S. at Blockbuster you would get a clear plastic case that held the game cartridge and that was it. They must have still kept some of the original boxes in their storage though, because I bought a used copy of Mega Man X for SNES from Blockbuster and it came in it’s original box, but with no manual.
grue@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’m willing to bet it varied by employee diligence. I think it’s much less likely to be a company policy of not giving out the manuals to renters and more likely to be that they didn’t quit renting the game after somebody failed to return the manual.
njm1314@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Same for Hollywood Video. I don’t think you ever got manuals. At least not the ones near me.