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Authentic Link's Awakening Game Manual (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Jim_Just_Jim to c/retrogaming

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Won an original Link's Awakening Game Boy manual on a Goodwill charity auction. Had to share the nostalgia.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I can smell it. I can smell now the difference between Nintendo booklets and Sega booklets and PC booklets (Christ, trying to type in the Age of Empires 2 cd key).

I have 1000 games on Steam, and I know a lot of them come with some sort of PDF, and I'm not saying things aren't better, but I can miss that one aspect of the first half hour of experiencing a new game being reading, touching, smelling its lore and artwork.

[–] chknbwl 6 points 5 months ago

This is something me and my brother always did whenever we collectively bought a new game for our N64/GameCube. I'll never forget snapping that shrink wrap off, popping open the case, and whiffing in the wood-pulpy smell of a freshly-printed, made-with-love Wind Waker manual. It was all ogre when we bought the walkthrough manual; not even my wife smells that good.

Or should I have mentioned Pokemon Stadium...?