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>>380432132
I miss game manuals in general, I always liked to read them
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I miss when games came with literally anything more than a flimsy plastic case.
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The manual was half the fun of buying the game. You opened it up on the way home, and read it all over to psych yourself up before you even started the game.
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>>380432132
How I miss sniffing those while flipping the pages after opening the box for the first time.
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>>380432132
Those stopped being a thing in late 90s.
Do you really miss something from 18 years ago? Are you over 30? Or are you merely feeling nostalgic for things you have read about?
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Post Japanese Spyro one please.
That was amazing.
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>>380433197
Manuals were still a thing in the early 2000's, my dude
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>>380433750
Like that guy would know, he was probably born after 2005.
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>>380433197
Are you dense? People in their 20s still have fond memories of them, faggot.
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>tfw found my old Pokemon Silver manual yesterday
It was a good feel lads
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>>380433824
Goddammit Captcha, stop making me select images.
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>>380432132
Who members tales of symphonia manual?
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>>380434240
>Being apathetic for old things entails "growing up".
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>>380434251
>rare pokemon
>only appear once
>picture of a zubat
if only
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>>380434767
What are you even doing here then? Ironically shitposting?
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>>380432132
I MISS WHEN THEY CAME WITH CLOTH MAPS. That shit was so baller.
Zelda Twilight Princess and Ultima Online both come to mind.
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>>380434251
>>380434619
That fucking troll post is in a video game manual. The audacity. The sheer balls.
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i miss the 90s
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>>380432132
I just miss Instruction Manuals altogether. Just seeing the illustrations and little bits of info about the game/world was always one of the best parts of getting a new game.
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>>380435021
I never understood why a lot of the spaces were blank. I thought you had to draw them in as you caught them or something
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>>380434251
Get 4chanX and switch to Captcha v1, helps a lot during dumps.
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I miss Metal Gear Solids coming with fucking comics. They went from that to basically fucking nothing in MGSV.
Actually, now that most games come with little more than a slip of paper that says "read the on-disc manual dickhead", what's the point of even having the clips and space for full sized manuals in boxes anymore?
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>>380437520
looks like they're all first form pokemon. kind of a teaser of what's to come. I guess you could fill it out as you went though
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>>380433197
>OP's example is from 98.
>six year old kids at the time would be 25 now
>"are you over 30???"
Go back to summer school, Jimmy.
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>>380437897
>>380437520
I believe it was so you could draw them or fill them out with stickers, the idea at the time being that you could follow alongside your pokedex.
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Thanks for the dump. I still have my manual.
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>>380437261
>Grimer is the only Pokémon not TM'ed
So it's ok to use Grimer in a fangame and no other Pokémon?
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>>380438163
Thanks OP
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>>380438287
I assume the design is copyrighted, they just didn't manage to grab the trademark for "grimer", since it probably already existed at the time.
Depending on whether or not it expired and they were able to claim it, you'd be able to use the name, yes.
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I miss when they came with manuals that were in universe lore books.
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>>380432132
I don't miss games being pieces of shit at explaining their mechanics and needing instruction manuals though.
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>>380439416
Holy fuck that game was my childhood. I loved the map and the 2 books and the fact that you needed to memorise a full alphabet just to decipher one. It was a great time
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>>380439517
Better than an hour or more of forced tutorials.
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>>380437774
I didn't believe you. Went to get my copy and was surprised to see this.
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>>380439651
Nah
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>>380432378
I don't have my Yellow version manual on hand right now, but I wonder if (at least some of) the Euro versions were written a little differently. I swear I remember the manual specifically explaining not only that Pokemon get stronger by fighting, but that they are also fiercely competitive by nature and enjoy fighting (and getting stronger), which is why I've always found the concerns of animal abuse and Team Plasma's stated goals in B/W a bit silly.
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Pretty sure you could hurt somebody with the size of this shit.
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>>380433197
I'm 27 and I vividly remember game manuals/instruction booklets. Just because you were born in the all digital age doesn't mean you should shit on them.
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>>380432132
me too but i understand its pretty worthless now that the internet exists.
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>>380435042
im pretty sure they were talking about the legendaries but didnt want to post them because of spoilers. but i can understand the confusion
>>380433456
kek. this was wrong though. Brock's pokemon had such shit Special and NO rock moves so they were a cinch to kill with Charmander
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>go with dad to buy game
>read the manual in the car on the way back
Comfy as fuck.
But I guess the smartphone generation doesn't need them.
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>>380432378
>The Brock want to fight!
heh
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>>380433197
Underage please. WoW's manual was the shit.
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>>380442730
The best way to beat Brock is to catch a team of weak little shitters like lv3 Rattata, whittle Geodude/Onix's Def and atk down with Growl/Tail Whip while switching to avoid too much damage after Onix's Screech, and then spam Tackle. Zero grind required. Even more easy mode if you have a Bulbasaur at lv7 to plant Leech Seed so you can't die while they die faster, no need to grind until lv13 for Vine Whip (or lv8/9 for the other starters' first elemental moves)
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>>380439651
Actually, yeah why can't we go back to that? I'm tired of in-game tutorials taking 30 minutes to teach me shit that I've known since I was 5 and picked up a Mario game. It's always some bullshit too:
>Okay we just gotta make sure your system is working right. Press X to target something.
>You've been out of commission for a while now, try jumping over that obstacle. Okay, now are you ready to try double-jumping?
>This new model armor needs to be calibrated before we can send you out. Try walking around and looking up and down. Great.
>You're a grown man and you're 40 years old, but for some reason I need to make sure you can walk three steps without pissing and shitting yourself.
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>>380441520
Guess that explains their zerging anyone stepping foot in tall grass.
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>>380439517
Oh yeah it's soooooo much better with 5+ hour tutorials nowadays.
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>>380441776
Fuck that brought me back. I lost my shit, but I found a picture online.
There's something so satisfying about having a fuckload of reading material about the game and its lore and reference guides I can use while playing. It's a good resource without going heavily into spoiler territory like a walkthrough would.
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Which one(s) did you guys have as a kid? i got the green one purely because it was holographic. i remember saving up my Scolastic reading points in order to get my hands on it
it was greatuntil i noticed how fucking wrong half the entries were
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>>380433197
I'm almost 29 and I miss them too.
>that THICC BG2 manual
>the booklets in every N64 game
and while we're at it:
>tfw no Club Nintendo magazine anymore
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>>380443848
Red one down here. God I loved that book.
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>>380443848
I have the first one somewhere. It even still has like 60% of the cover, so basically mint.
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>>380443825
this is cool as fuck.
getting the original NWN edition must have been the tits.
>>380441776
as I was mentioning already
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>>380432132
Have not seen that for a long time >>380432132
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>>380441776
>read this
>it contains detailed descriptions and background lore for every single spell in the game
>there are over a hundred of them
this was fantastic
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> Opening Age of empires 2 case to find the tech tree
> Not understanding it as you're a kid
> Knowing its going to be great
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>>380432589
I never knew what shift vs set mode did until just now
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the Pokemon manuals were full of literal lies though
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>>380445289
You've never played link battles?
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remember the DK64 manual? it was full of that one old monkey telling you how shit the game is iirc
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>>380443451
i remember catching a nidoran and wait for it to learn double kick. shit was easy
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>>380445813
holy shit, found it. its fucking hilarious http://www.gamesdatabase.org/Media/SYSTEM/Nintendo_N64/Manual/formated/Donkey_Kong_64_-_1999_-_Nintendo.pdf
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>>380445476
I did when I was a kid, I don't remember it limiting you from switching pokers out but I haven't done a link battle since I was around ten so maybe my memory is just shit.
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>>380445813
That's only in Yellow version, I think. The Nidorans learn Double Kick ridiculously late in RB. Yellow also added Mankey west of Viridian (that was changed to learn Low Kick at early levels) and changed Butterfree to learn Confusion upon evolution at lv10 rather than two levels later, just to make the early game with Pikachu easier, I guess.
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>>380445186
same here with starcraft
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>>380445476
>>380446025
you didnt have to play link battles to experience the difference between shift and set. you just needed to look at the options menu to change it. i used to (and still do) use Set all the time to make the main game slightly more challenging.
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>>380443848
Learnt how to read with the red one
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>>380446340
Indeed you don't, but I was just suggesting that even people who didn't know what the menu option did would be able to guess after experiencing how pvp battles work. I've also used Set for years now.
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>>380446340
Yeah, I get that, I just never changed the setting between battles and only ever saw it whenever I start a new game and go into the options to change the text speed to fast.
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>>380432132
I miss the old Ken Sugimori art
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why cant they make pokemon with the old simplistic artstyle? everyone be in the anime or new games look like total faggots and everything is overdesigned
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>>380446887
Because the new art style appeals to the youngsters more
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>>380443915
Ah yeah, BG1 had a thick one too and Lords of Magic as well.
They contained so much lore and it was just interesting to read them. Especially the Lords of Magic-manual helped the world of Urak come to life in my mind
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>>380434612
>>380434867
I fucking love lists like that.
Makes my pussy wet.
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>>380446972
>Because the new art style appeals to the youngsters more
By that logic Pokemon would have never taken off since kids at the time wouldnt have liked the art style
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>>380437521
The native extension lets you do that as well, enable legacy captcha.
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>>380443205
>WoW's manual was the shit.
Mine disappeared. That manual was fucking massive and got me so hyped to play the game reading it on the way home
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>>380437774
>Actually, now that most games come with little more than a slip of paper that says "read the on-disc manual dickhead", what's the point of even having the clips and space for full sized manuals in boxes anymore?
Because the store shelves were designed with that form factor in mind, deviating from it would require an orchestrated effort and the case manufacturers use the old tooling because it just werks. Not to mention that the larger plastic case allows for a more detailed cover art with a longer sales pitch on the back.
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>>380432220
>can choose to be a boy or girl in game
>still only says "you play as an 11 year old boy"
kek
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>>380432792
This anon gets it.
This here.
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>>380443591
>Hey Lan, should we run through the basics of netbattling?
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>>380448337
You didn't play Red or Blue, did you?
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>>380443848
I have these still somewhere stashed away. Both the pokemon yellow one (pic related I believe) and the one for pokemon red/blue.
I was too poor for gameboys and consoles so I pretended to play pokemon while reading the book.
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>>380448337
Anon, I...
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>>380446712
This. I don't argue that the pokemons from the past were better designed or less simplististic than those modern ones, their art just looked much neater hence they come over as better designed.
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>>380432792
This guy fucking gets it
>The excitement of reading the Gold manual on the bus ride home
>The gambling rush of buying a used game with no manual
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>>380443451
Remember when they casualized the shit out of the gen 1 remakes by letting charmander learn metal claw?
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>>380438087
>only 150
How did people encounter Mew then?
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>>380450771
blew my mind when I played it then
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>>380450771
No, considering Metal Claw is learnt as late as lv13 and Ember is still just as good if not better against Onix given its massive Defense and piss-poor SpDef stats.
You should probably replay RB and FRLG, you will find the latter more difficult (even if that's not saying much in the context of Pokemon mainline RPGs)
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I remember when Guild Wars came out I got it in post before school, went into school with the manual, read it all day in classes itching to get home and play.
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>>380448337
underage detected
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>>380432220
Always thought that was a lemon and not a seed.
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