Won an original Link’s Awakening Game Boy manual on a Goodwill charity auction. Had to share the nostalgia.
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This makes me sad. Because this post is basically, “hey, if you weren’t alive at the time, this is what this iconic game manual looks like.”
And granted, I guess thats EVERY post on this sub…
Maybe I’m just having a sad day. Because I love the content. I don’t mean to imply I’m anti-this post.
I’m just like “yeah…it’s the manual…just like every game ever gets…”
And then I hear Jon Lajoie singing at me “BUT YOU WERE WROOOOOOOOOONG!!!”
Games today don’t get manuals, and I feel like an old man yelling at clouds…
Is there a widely accepted reason why they stopped adding manuals to games?
I was allways reading them before playing the game, and it got very excited for game play.
Cost cutting, the advent of digital distribution, as well as technological and game design improvements that allowed for such information to be conveyed in game, all contributed to game manuals becoming less and less valuable. Due to these factors, they kept getting smaller and smaller until one day the just stopped being commonly made.
Though my nostalgia still misses them (and strategy guides).