Won an original Link's Awakening Game Boy manual on a Goodwill charity auction. Had to share the nostalgia.
this post was submitted on 30 May 2024
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This makes me sad. Because this post is basically, "hey, if you weren't alive at the time, this is what this iconic game manual looks like."
And granted, I guess thats EVERY post on this sub.....
Maybe I'm just having a sad day. Because I love the content. I don't mean to imply I'm anti-this post.
I'm just like "yeah......it's the manual........just like every game ever gets......."
And then I hear Jon Lajoie singing at me "BUT YOU WERE WROOOOOOOOOONG!!!!!!"
Games today don't get manuals, and I feel like an old man yelling at clouds......
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.
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...?