Thread 723966870

>>723966870 (OP)
I miss instruction manuals. The ones with artwork, character bios/descriptions, location information, etc, were so cool.

>>723966870 (OP)
>paper instruction manuals
instructions for what? were boomers retarded?

>>723968912
kek this, imagine having to read the manual for mario 64 or age of empires

>>723968912
It was a bit of a double edged sword. Because games had paper manuals, they were able to reduce the amount of fucking forced tutorials and on screen button prompts, etc. But nobody actually read the manuals, they just looked at the pictures.

Being a kid and actually reading it in the car on teh drive home from gamestop, and then never touching it again, had good memories, and beats the first 6 hours of a game nowadays throwing new mechanics at you constantly

>>723967698
Stylizes ones where the best ones

>Soldier's Journal
>Diary of a princess
>Adventurer's Permit

And so on

>>723969152

True true. Now you feel handholded during the first part of the game. Previously you had to figure things out or... Read the booklet.

>>723969152
by the 5th gen instruction manuals had become redundant. outside of genres that really demanded in depth supporting material like a crpg they were just a perfunctory checklist of in game items and mechanics the game was going to teach you regardless. fun little bonus but not needed.

>>723966870 (OP)
>paper instruction manuals
Imagine the smell

>discs
>cartridges
>PLASTIC cases
>paper

That era wasn't environmentally friendly