What is this: Shareware companies or individuals would sometimes include registration papers with the physical registered copies of their games. Here is a small collection of scans of some of those papers.

Disclaimer / warning: It should go without saying that the addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, etc contained in these documents is no longer valid and you should not attempt to contact anyone via this information!

How to contribute: If you have documents similar to those below, please consider scanning them, uploading them somewhere that I can download them, and then contacting me to let me know so that I can add them here. I will of course credit you if you'd like. Thank you!

Download all: An archive of all of the images is available on archive.org.

Get the games: Most of the games mentioned below are available on DOSGames.com.

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Commander Keen color promo Apogee Software Commander Keen A color promotional paper for Commander Keen: Invasion of the Vorticons. Not sure which game registration this was included with. PDF JPG
Commander Keen registration docs Apogee Software Commander Keen Registration docs including hints and cheats. PDF
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Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure registration docs Apogee Software Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure Registration doc including hints and cheats. PDF JPG
Dark Ages registration docs Apogee Software Dark Ages Registration docs including hints and cheats. PDF
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Scott Miller invoice Apogee Software Dark Ages An invoice for the game Dark Ages, signed by president Scott Miller himself! PDF JPG
Duke Nukem registration docs Apogee Software Duke Nukem Registration docs including hints and cheats. Thanks goes to Adrian M Neville for the scans. PDF
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Monuments of Mars registration docs Apogee Software Monuments of Mars Registration doc including hints and cheats. PDF JPG
Pharoah's Tomb registration docs Apogee Software Pharoah's Tomb Registration doc including hints and cheats. PDF JPG
Secret Agent registration docs Apogee Software Secret Agent Registration doc including hints and cheats. Kindly donated by @Apogee_Ent! JPG
ZZT document scans Epic Megagames ZZT Many ZZT documents are avialable at the Museum of ZZT website. Link
Spit Wad Willy registration thank you letter Raoul Said Spit Wad Willy Registered copy thank you letter signed by Raoul Said! PDF JPG
Spit Wad Willy game manual Raoul Said Spit Wad Willy Registered copy game manual. PDF
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Soleau Software docs Soleau Software Multiple Papers included with a registered game disk, likely Mice Men. PDF
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