Games Manuals

[Myst]

My other post elsewhere made me think back to the 90's.

In particular the manuals that you used to get with games.
I am now and was then in to flight sims.

I can remember buying the latest Microprose or Spectrum Holobyte one knowing it would have a manual the weight of a brick to peruse through, some of them were 100's of pages long.

Today i can only think of the IL2 series that come with a manual, and even then they are only 30-40 pages if that.

You certainly came away thinking you had value for your £30 or so that you paid for it. Even now i can just pull a one out of the box to have a ganders through.

aye good days

[zimmerframe]

And games came boxed in large printed boxes instead of DVD cases...

I know what you mean about the manuals.  Now you get just a short basic pamphlet.

[Rik]

And that applies to software costing hundreds of pounds too.

[kinmel]

Now you get just a short basic pamphlet.

To be fair, virtually every games DVD comes with PDF manuals in numerous languages, more importantly these PDFs are searchable and you can print off the few pages that you need.

I think manuals in this format are far more useful that those old paper based ones.

[Rik]

I like a paper book I can take away and read, tbh, Alan.

[Myst]

Likewise.

The manual was part of the overall package.
Yes you can get a them on pdf, but i dont want to read them in that format, and also my wallet wouldn't like the cost of printing a few hundred pages.

Info like that is fine on games that take no thinking about; however i liked to immerse myself in the real mccoy.

[Rik]

Especially with a 'big' program like Photoshop.

[kinmel]

You are all luddites 

[Rik]

Bookworms.

[zimmerframe]

I like a paper book I can take away and read, tbh, Alan.

Me too.  And if that means being a Luddite, then so be it