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Those were the days
Use the frequency on the CD Jewel Case
Yesterday I came across my old Icewind Dale box. The manual is 130 pages with tiny print.
I had also put the Forgotten Realms Archive manual in there, which is 368 pages - but to be fair that’s for all 12 games.
As a child with motion sickness brought on by reading in a moving vehicle. I still did this but then got too nauseous and had to lay down.
Also the car filled with cigarette smoke with the windows up didn’t help.
I remember when games had swag. I still have a cloth map from one of my games.
Some do, they just charge you like $300 for that version now.
Lunar silver star story?
One of the Ultima series of games.
Remember when games had a cool box, with a manual and full color booklet with the story and basics of the game, etc. Now they bring nothing, just a disc. Same with movies, a dvd used to have all these features, documentaries, Easter eggs, interactive menus and commentaries. Now you pay for a Blu ray and it brings nothing but the movie
Nowadays you don’t usually even get to own the game after purchase.
Back in the day we’d buy games based on the vaguest idea of what they actually are. My parents would take me to the store and we’d get anything that looks cool enough. Best we can do is read a little bit about it in a magazine.
That’s how I got “Rise of the robots”, never got more disappointed by a game ever! 😞
The box:
The game:
At least this one had screenshots on the back!
For a different platform entirely, but as a Spectrum owner I was used to that.
Looking at videos of other versions, it looks suspiciously like they outsourced the Spectrum version to somebody else, and only vaguely described it.
So immersive! Look at that spaceship!
Mom made me pick a game from the bargain bin. Deus ex? Weird cover. Eh I’ll try it
Bitch
Buying a game during a trip to another town, being away from your computer for a week, and spending the entire week just fondling the game box, reading it, reading the papers that came inside, doing game foreplay.
I remember doing that for HoMM3. I brought it with me from home when I stayed with my grandparents for a few weeks one summer. It wouldn’t install on their PC so I just read the manual cover to cover forever.
I only did that once. It was R-Type.
I got it back home and it wouldn’t load. My parents were not in the mood to drive all the way back for the sake of £2.99 of my pocket money.
I eventually palmed it off on Toys R Us when I noticed their receipts just said “Game”. I got another copy. That wouldn’t load either.
I was a young adult when I bought falcon 3.0. I was two days from home and spent the car ride reading that book that came with it. It quickly ended up on the shelf above the toilet and I spent a many evacuations looking through it. I have never before or since bought a game with a larger manual.
A week… My family took 4 week vacations every summer. Of course I had to buy a game the first week. Those manuals and gaming magazines during summer got a lot of attention.
Sweet memories.
I know I did this for damn near every game i got as a kid, but I distinctly remember in middle school doing this in the back of my step-fathers pickup truck with a copy of Skyrim on PC. It had just come out the night before and I was shocked Walmart still had any copies.
When games had manuals… Now I’m sad :(
Read the Guild Wars Factions manual over and over, because I got it before the official release and couldn’t play. 2 years later I could easily solve a lore puzzle in-game with the knowledge I got from reading the manual. Totally worth it.
It was Guild Wars Eye of the North for me. I got it just before going in family holidays.
I spent two weeks looking at it.
Aw man… this gets me… on a trip to Colorado I picked up Final Fantasy Tactics in a random game store (had never seen it at home) read that manual probably 10 times during that trip.
Once I got Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for my birthday, I just so happened to do something (don’t remember what) to get grounded from TV/Nintendo for a month. I read that manual so many times over the next month. Not sure I ever actually beat that game.
Don’t worry, no one beat that game.
(Obviously now sixteen people will come in and tell me they beat the game but I will take this chance to mention that the PC port was literally unbeatable without cheating or modifying the game due to a mapping bug.)
If we’re talking Turtles in Time? Hell no. Same goes for getting the proper ending in Streets of Rage 2 on hard mode. Still my favorite soundtrack of that era.
Oh no, I’m talking the NES game. It was a hateful thing.
It was truly cursed. God forbid you had the DOS port which was actually unbeatable due to an impossible jump.
Yep I’d heard about that. Man those were some Wild West days.
Never beat the og NES. Always died at the technodrone and them damn pink bugs.
I got so good at the swimming section i could do it without touching the seaweed once tho beat that
Yeah the difficulty of swimming was overrated. The technodrome was ridiculous.
I mean major kudos for getting past the god dam level reliably. I think I beat it once on an emulator.
And some nice props. The original Sid Meier’s Pirates had an amazing map of the Caribbean
Fucking loved that game!
I have a distinct memory of this with Pokemon black then soul silver (in that order)
