• rozodru@piefed.world
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    6 hours ago

    do it. I don’t care about the practicality of it all I loved those big boxes. But they also need to have the big manuals inside also.

    Some of those manuals were absolutely awesome. Like the one for the first Heavy Gear. or the old flight sim games. Or like the original release of Final Fantasy 7 on PC by Edios came with a brady’s strategy guide. Heck bring back strategy guides too! I remember when World of Warcraft first came out I picked up the strategy guide with it cause it was full of WoW related Penny-Arcade comics in it and I was (heck still am) a massive fan of Penny-Arcade.

    • content_educator_94@thelemmy.club
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      2 hours ago

      100% feel you I miss picking up a game with a phat manual, I am smell the fresh ink from the manuals when I think about it hard enough lol

      Or buying a large paged, glossy, color printed, gorgeous strategy guide I would read for pleasure and enjoy as a piece of art as well as a walkthrough

      Ahh fuck I miss being younger. The late 90’s and early to mid 2000’s were an incredible time for video games