''Crash Course Manual'' is a 1989 role-playing game supplement for ''

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'' published by

West End Games West End Games (WEG) was a company that made board, role-playing, and war games. It was founded by Daniel Scott Palter in 1974 in New York City, but later moved to Honesdale, Pennsylvania. Its product lines included ''Star Wars'', ''Paranoia' ...

''Crash Course Manual'' is a supplement in which the Computer has crashed in the Alpha Complex.

Publication history

''Crash Course Manual'' was edited by Doug Kaufman, with a cover by Robert Larkin, and was published by

in 1990 as a 96-page book. Shannon Appelcline commented that metaplots for ''Paranoia'' "kicked off with the 'Secret Society Wars' in ''The DOA Sector Travelogue'' (1989), which seemed OK, but then things took a dramatic wrong turn with ''Crash Course Manual'' (1989), which introduced MegaWhoops Alpha Complex where the Computer was gone!"

Reception

James Wallis reviewed ''Crash Course Manual'' for ''

Games International ''Computer Games Magazine'' was a monthly computer and console gaming print magazine, founded in October 1988 as the United Kingdom publication ''Games International''. During its history, it was known variously as ''Strategy Plus'' (October 1 ...

'' magazine, and gave it a rating of 3 out of 10, and stated that "If you still play ''Paranoia'', you'll want this, but if your copy is gathering dust on a shelf, ''Crash Course Manual'' is not a good enough reason to pick it up again."

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{{reflist Paranoia supplements Role-playing game supplements introduced in 1989

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Publication history

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