⚡Bubblegum Midlife Crisis⚡➟ Otakon prep: Feel like shit, just want her* back *physical video game manuals included with my game

Feel like shit, just want her* back *physical video game manuals included with my game

One thing I miss when I used to buy old games was coming home on the bus looking at the manuals. Anything released in the last 15 years or so I don't even bother checking if it has one because it's usually six pages of telling you to not swallow the controller.

I'm so sorry. I only attempted that once and now they feel they need to warn everyone.

The only DRM in heaven is photocopy resistant fast travel maps

and fanciful code wheels

At least three spinning cardboard discs! At least!

We need new reading material when on the toilet!

They even tempt us with the little slits in the box that would hold the manuals in place

Sort of, the real manuals of yesteryear laugh at those silly little slits.

I miss her*

We all do 😭

Legend of Zelda and Metroid manuals some of my all time favorites

Ugh so true!!

*Agent Smith voice* It's THE SMELL! (complementary)

Just imagine the extra lore we could get with an Elden Ring manual.

Star Glider came with a Novella. Fun times.

My life peaked when I opened the Homeworld manual for the first time

where are the big maps, game companies????

Last one I recall was The Witcher 3 on PS4. Which included the manual, some stickers and a thank you note from CDPR.

Pretty sure I still have this floating around. archive.org/details/mech...

Mechwarrior 4 Vengeance Manual : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archivearchive.org This is the manual for Mechwarrior 4 Vengeance computer game.

YEAH the new super monkey ball has a “legendary edition” that comes with a little manual and i looked through it twice before i even started the game

Tunic

I feel this 😂

Stroking my black Label Xbox game manuals to feel something, anything

I remember bringing the manuals with me to school to read between classes... and sometimes tucked into my textbooks. 😊

Have you played Tunic? You unlock an old school manual as you play.

I don't even know if she'd be the same in this modern world where games get released unfinished and patched so quickly that any manual would be out of date within weeks...

Well in AAA games with online play, sure! But other games that don't have those issues...

The game manual is a lost art form. I weep for her.*

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