Does anyone else miss instruction books? Did anyone else read

I wish they still included them but they aren't needed anymore.

I do wish Switch games included soundtracks in the cases in the form of mini-CDs.

As a matter of fact, yes.

I read the glover handbook while my dad tried to get that piece of shot installed for me for hours

>>381038445
I read them on the way home from the game store, but yeah, same idea.

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>parents buy you a game
>You read the instruction manual on the ride home
I've never knew such hype since

>>381039280
>>381039432
>staying at grandparents for christmas in 2003
>get gamecube and smash bros for christmas
>holyfuckholyfuckholyfuckholyfuckholyfuckholyfuckholyfuckholyfuck
>would not put down the manual the whole ride home afterward

That made my childhood.

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Evil Within is the only game I can think of in in almost a decade where they cared enough to have an instruction manual that wasnt just a two page pamphlet with legal info on it. Say what you will about that game, but it had heart

>>381039432
i miss when i enjoyed life and it didnt feel like such work

>>381038445
Hell yes motherfucker. Best car rides home.

The Starcraft manual and WC3 manual were the hypest shit. Tons of interesting lore.

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>>381039280
>>381039432
>>381040307
>Don't open that in the car!

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>>381038445
The instruction book for Halo:CE was fucking God tier. I read that shit on the toilet as a kid.

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Im really glad the ps1 games you can get digitally made sure to keep the instruction manuals ready for your reading pleasure tucked away in their own special menu

>>381038445
Yeah, it was neat to look at the art printed in them sometimes.

>>381041436
All this time I thought Strider was a cyborg.

>stealth fapping to the cute girls in a jrpg's manual during the car ride home

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>>381038445
Barely played retail games on my PC as a kid but I remember when we went multiple times to visit the US and got tons of games because they were cheaper and then my brother and I would stare at the instruction manuals for hours wondering what the game would be like before we got back home.

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>>381040390
do something you love for work

>>381041810
i think he is in the new one actually

>>381043103
i dont seem to enjoy anything anymore, but thanks for asking

>>381043103
Easier said than done

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>>381040502
Shut your trap, Dad!

I remember fondly reading through the Caesar 3 and pharaoh instruction books while sitting on the can. Also got a good read out of icewind dale 2 and all the listed spells effects and monsters. The Diablo 2 manual was good for some backstory as well. Alot of them had some nice artwork too, shame they don't have manuals anymore and just depend on players to create a wiki for everything.

Ni no Kuni had an awesome instruction manual.

>>381038445
>used to jack off to girls in video game instruction manuals in the bathroom because I had no other wank material available
no regrets

>>381038445

Manuals, no.

The little fluff books that had story, lore, spell grimoires, monster compendiums, etc, yes.

>>381039280
This

>>381040339
Guilty Gear Xrd Revelator has a decent one as well.