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."