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Remember when games had manuals too? (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Probably my most-memorable manual of all time. This era was next-level with the manuals. With Police Quest 2 (pictured), you couldn't access the game without the manual, as it'd show you a mugshot and you had to match the picture to the name in the manual:

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Back when DRM was fun

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I dunno, it could be annoying. I played an indy 500 game that asked history questions from the manual and was a pain to find the page with the answer.

And I remember a Mickey game where you needed to find a specific pose in black ink on a dark brown paper. Poor contrast was meant to defeat photocopiers but also made it a pain for human eyes.