Video Game Manual & Document Dataset | Retail Booklets, Inserts & Packaging Documents | Textual Data

For decades, a game's manual was part of the game. It explained the controls, told the story, introduced the characters, and carried warranty, rating, and regional information that appears nowhere else. As games went digital, most of that material was never captured in a structured form. The Video Game Manual & Document Dataset turns retail booklets, inserts, and packaging documents into structured text, linked to the exact releases they shipped with. This dataset is part of the VGAMI dataset created by GAMACY. VGAMI COVERAGE - 185,000+ titles - 120+ platforms - 55+ years of gaming, from 1971 to present - 9M+ structured data points across the full VGAMI dataset The data point total spans all VGAMI data products combined. Counts vary by title and by dataset, so ask us for the figures specific to this product. WHAT IT CONTAINS Text from the printed materials that shipped with physical game releases, each linked to its specific release and canonical game: - Manuals and instruction booklets: controls, gameplay instructions, story, and character information - Inserts: registration cards, promotional inserts, and supplementary leaflets - Packaging documents: back-of-box copy, legal and warranty text, and rating information - Regional versions: documents from localized releases, so the same game's materials can be compared across regions and languages WHY IT MATTERS - Primary source: printed documents reflect what was actually shipped, not later summaries or fan reconstructions - Re