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I miss manuals... (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver to c/gaming

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[–] Geek_King 48 points 9 months ago (5 children)

The height of new game glory for me were the old school huge boxes PC games came in. It wasn't uncommon to get a thick manual with wonderful art, sometimes spiral bound, maps, other neat add-ins. Even console games had nice manuals with useful information you may not otherwise know. I miss that stuff.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

I wrote a similar reply to a higher comment without seeing yours, and I completely agree - I miss it.

I was a bit younger in the 90s and half the magic of the ride home was reading the manual so you could hit the ground running when you installed it/put the cartridge in/loaded the tape.

[–] TheMinions 2 points 9 months ago

I very distinctly remember pouring over the City of Heroes art book/manual they shipped with that game.

Man I loved that game. So fun.

[–] Speculater 2 points 9 months ago

Way back in the day places like Working Designs sent Lunar and Lunar 2 out with badass merch and maps. They were amazing.