Princess Emily
you know what I do miss? getting printed, physical manuals with video games
BattroidBattery
SimAnt manual...
skerple
yeah.....
Princess Emily
it was just like....
Princess Emily
flipping through the manual was your pregame hype-up
Princess Emily
get some little bit of artwork, read about the game, get psyched up,
Echo
Yeah, that was nice. ...Also, most of them tended to actually list out what the controls were for, which was nice.
RobotApocalypse
yeah i miss these too
Doge-lover Joja
god, i miss those
Doge-lover Joja
the early ones had story stuff that couldn't fit into the game proper, sometimes it was wildly off-base
Lightning Bolt
oh i loved reading those
Doge-lover Joja
FF7's had a guide for the Reactor
Haze Arquebus
bless indies and also marvelous for keeping the dream alive
Tangent
if my husband hasnt thrown it away on me I have a box somewhere that is just FULL of old video game manuals because I could never bear to get rid of them
A Grinning DM
Every once in a while I come across my manual for the game Arcanum and sit down and re-read it
A Grinning DM
I’m not even interested in replaying the game, the manual is just so nice
Haze Arquebus
case in point re: marvelous for the friends of mineral town remake
case in point re: marvelous for the friends of mineral town remake
Princess Emily
yes! more games need that!
Haze Arquebus
especially the switch ones, tiny switch manuals are cute
Tangent
i always liked to look at the character art in the manuals and like, try to guess what kind of people they were before playing
DigitalSocrates
I played arcanum recently and was having a hell of a time with it before I found out you need to read the manual first
Lightning Bolt
I remember the Series of Unfortunate Events game manual being written in Snicket style