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The revenge of the video game manual (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/retrogaming

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Instruction manuals died out as video games introduced tutorials instead. But now games such as Tunic and The Banished Vault are bringing them back

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Back in the 8bit home micro days, we used to read the manuals all the time. Mainly because the games took so long to load from cassette.

I distinctly remember the Microprose manuals for their simulation games when I had a 16bit computer, I felt like I could master the real vehicle after looking through those.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Would’ve loved if Horizon Zero Dawn on PC came with a manual I could read while it compiled shaders…