Largest digital archive of PlayStation manuals

The largest digital archive of PlayStation manuals consists of 1,907 complete scans of physical manuals, and was achieved by Kirkland with 'Kirkland's Manual Labor - Sony PlayStation 2 - USA - 4K version', as verified on 1 December 2022.

In an interview with Kotaku.com, Kirkland said the following regarding their reasons for embarking on this project:

“The goal is to raise some awareness for game preservation efforts. So many games growing up shaped how we looked at and experienced the world. Of course as we ‘grow up,’ we move to other things but there are a lot of us who have nostalgia for these things and want our kids to be able to enjoy what we did. The whole ‘read the books your father read’ deal. And there have been great efforts to preserve games: VGHF, the Strong Museum, and grassroots efforts like MAME, redump.org, No-Intro, and Cowering’s Good Tools before that. Which I always thought, ‘This is great! We’re going to have everything preserved. But without the manuals, we’re not going to know how to play them.’”