I love all of this stuff!
FYI: TZD was still charging $2 per manual until they went out of business, IIRC. But the note is on a TTi letter, so I guess TZD simply never changed TTi's price....
I ordered a bunch of manuals towards the end of TZD...
NOTES:
(1) Jeff (Game Counselor) — February 10, 1993
Where is he now? I can probably figure out what I was doing on February 10, 1993. No joke.
(2) Rentrak — never heard of this company before...
(3) Los Angeles = October 1992 launch of DUO
May 1993 = DUO available in nine markets nationwide (can we guess the biggest cities?)
(4) I never met anyone who called any of the silly video game hotlines (for any system). WHY WAS TTi and TZD pushing so hard? Did folks really call these tip lines? It boggles my mind. They mention the damn tip line in every damn letter (or nearly every letter).