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.
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.
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.
I still have all my big box PC games, and they all have thick manuals full of lore, character biographies and art. We lost an art form.
I collapsed and recycled all of my large PC game boxes out of necessary, but I have every single manual/map/pack-in though!
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.
Way back in the day places like Working Designs sent Lunar and Lunar 2 out with badass merch and maps. They were amazing.
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.
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