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12/22/2014 5:21:17 PM
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Anyone else miss game manuals? Not the one page pamphlet that invites you to check their website. Like the big thick leave-a-mark-if-this-was-thrown-at-you manuals?
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Remember the KOTOR manual? That thing was thick!
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Kotor was epic in all aspects, manual included
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Yes. Oh man did I love the dialogue between Zaalbar and Mission. They were such an odd pair. Hahaha.
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I remember when you had to wait two hours for the game to install on the pc and reading the 100 plus page manuals were an integral part of learning the story for games. Or at Christmas I would open a game then spend the rest of the night drooling over the manual until I could go home and play. I also remember when I bought my civilization game at like 13 and it came with a 200 page manual and I thought "oh shit, I may have gotten in a little over my head."
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I love Civ still today. but, Castle Wolfenstine got me hooked way back in the late 80's.
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Capcom always had the best manuals giving you all kinds of sweet artwork that would never see the light of day
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I still have the manuals A Link to the Past and Mario Kart(have the original box for this too) and I love the charm they have. It's sad seeing the "manuals" for these new games. I think the DS still has manuals for their games..
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Yes! Pokemon games have kept that beautiful tradition!
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The lost art form of the game manual. I remember when my mom would buy me a new game and she'd be driving me home I'd open up the box and pull out he instruction manual. They used to have all the weapons, heroes and villains with descriptions and cool artwork. Not anymore....
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I miss the art (think metroid/link/dragon warrior), which would really help the 8-bit world come to life in your mind. Because those games definitely took some imagination. Sometimes an intro screen and clear/kill screen was all the story in the game. The manual would sometimes tell you the whole story, and get you to buy into the game 'world'. I remember my NES games quite fondly, even when most were unplayable messes. And I remember playing games several times where my parents would ask 'Why are you doing ___?' And my answer was often, 'I don't know. Because it's fun.' I think Final Fantasy II (US/SNES) was the first game I ever geeked out and really lost myself in. Maybe around 10 or 11 years old. I remember beating the game, and then hearing a rumor about the moon dungeons and the heroic weapons. The save counter only went to 100 hours, and I was way past that. I max leveled every playable character, found all the secrets, and felt so proud of it. No strat guides, no FAQ's, no internet forums. Just determination stubbornness.
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Edited by Zero Jager X: 12/22/2014 5:52:18 PMI had the posters that came in some cases on all the walls in my gaming room. I distinctly remember the wind waker map, and the 2 elder scroll maps. I also opened up the halo 4 case to see what the hell all the ui meant in pvp in the booklet. Only to find out there was no manual and was sad
