I wouldn't go that far. I love the GBA and DS's libraries since there are many good games, but I'll be honest. At least 75% of the GBA library was licensed shovelware, somehow even moreso than the DS had, and getting close to Wii levels. Just find a lot of cheap GBA games on ebay and you'll see like 75% are garbage. Here's the first one that showed up for me on ebay.
Not sure if joking but yes and they were in COLOR, they often had little illustrations to act as world building + how to play, since all the conventions that define the genres today were all entirely new
Like iirc there's an entire section for the Faxanadu manual that explains buying potions from a merchant
Not sure if you’re joking but yes and this is the reason why a lot of older games (gamecube era and older) do not have ingame tutorials. You were expected to skim through the manual, some of which were filled to the brim with soul
I was a kid when games started phasing out manuals. It got depressing how every new manual I got my hands on had less and less pages until eventually they were just ads or store codes.
games don't have any kind of insert anymore unless you buy the deluxe collector's edition with 300 page artbook and soundtrack with a special edition remix of the title song that doesn't even appear in the game
I wish I had a picture of a fricking GTA 9/11 disc I had as a kid.
It was GTA San Andreas (obviously) but with the twin towers in it. That's it. I don't think they'd fall if you flew a plane into them because PS2 games don't have destructible environments, but that's what it was.
>every sunday my parents would take me to the flea market and I'd get a new game for PS1/PS2/Xbox Hueg for the price of a couple chocolate bars.
God bless those market crackheads.
>sneaking into mommy's room and finding where she puts the christmas presents and carefully unwrapping dragon ball z budokai tenkaichi 2 and seeing this motherfricker on the back and thinking cell and buu and janemba fused or something and putting it into my PS2 slim and watching the intro and feeling amazed but bad and carefully rewrapping it and putting it back
I still do this when I buy used physical games or like, new Switch games. It's funny seeing what they pick out for the boxart on the back and the blurbs and stuff. I remember getting DQ3 on NES and being amused because it basically spilled the plot and twist of the game right there.
>reading the Vanilla WoW manual while waiting for the game to download from discs, having to do so about three times until it finally didn't suddenly crash in the middle of one disk >all the nods to past lore and reading about all the races and classes as you try to figure out what to play as
Never gonna get that feeling from a game ever again.
Holding a new game felt so good
especially because games were generally of higher quality back then. it was a given you likely had something good in your hands.
I wouldn't go that far. I love the GBA and DS's libraries since there are many good games, but I'll be honest. At least 75% of the GBA library was licensed shovelware, somehow even moreso than the DS had, and getting close to Wii levels. Just find a lot of cheap GBA games on ebay and you'll see like 75% are garbage. Here's the first one that showed up for me on ebay.
>not reading the manual
This. I read the everliving shit out of so many GCN manuals
My most memorable manual
https://www.thegameisafootarcade.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/The-Legend-of-Zelda-Oracle-of-Seasons-Game-Manual.pdf
>not writing notes in the manual while you play the game
This. I read the shit out of the big book manuals that came with Warcraft 1 and 2 and 3 and Starcraft
Games came with manuals?
Not sure if joking but yes and they were in COLOR, they often had little illustrations to act as world building + how to play, since all the conventions that define the genres today were all entirely new
Like iirc there's an entire section for the Faxanadu manual that explains buying potions from a merchant
yeah...they *did*
Not sure if you’re joking but yes and this is the reason why a lot of older games (gamecube era and older) do not have ingame tutorials. You were expected to skim through the manual, some of which were filled to the brim with soul
I was a kid when games started phasing out manuals. It got depressing how every new manual I got my hands on had less and less pages until eventually they were just ads or store codes.
But now games come with a 30 minute tutorial to teach you the controls and hold your hand most of the way reminding you how to do things, neat huh?
games don't have any kind of insert anymore unless you buy the deluxe collector's edition with 300 page artbook and soundtrack with a special edition remix of the title song that doesn't even appear in the game
I took the halo 3 manual to school hours after I got it at a midnight release
>Not listening to the OST bonus disc on your way back home
>opening up the game before you got back to the house/apartment
what kind of lawless household were you raised in
I did this a lot with FF12 and RE4.
Can't relate, I was a piratechad since early age.
Based huebro.
I wish I had a picture of a fricking GTA 9/11 disc I had as a kid.
It was GTA San Andreas (obviously) but with the twin towers in it. That's it. I don't think they'd fall if you flew a plane into them because PS2 games don't have destructible environments, but that's what it was.
>every sunday my parents would take me to the flea market and I'd get a new game for PS1/PS2/Xbox Hueg for the price of a couple chocolate bars.
God bless those market crackheads.
is that San Juan de Dios?
>rent game
>open box in car
>game manual in box
>mfw
>sneaking into mommy's room and finding where she puts the christmas presents and carefully unwrapping dragon ball z budokai tenkaichi 2 and seeing this motherfricker on the back and thinking cell and buu and janemba fused or something and putting it into my PS2 slim and watching the intro and feeling amazed but bad and carefully rewrapping it and putting it back
Nothing beats the feeling of going home with a newly rented game.
>gamefly game comes in the mail
oh sweet
>smelling the box
>smelling the manual
kino.
I miss manuals bros
Is that Olan Rogers? I used to love Balloon Shop
>Open new game box
>Smell the inside the entire car ride home
I still do this when I buy used physical games or like, new Switch games. It's funny seeing what they pick out for the boxart on the back and the blurbs and stuff. I remember getting DQ3 on NES and being amused because it basically spilled the plot and twist of the game right there.
im never going to be as happy as i was as a kid. its only downhill from here.
I got something better than manuals: Games that come with maps.
>reading the Vanilla WoW manual while waiting for the game to download from discs, having to do so about three times until it finally didn't suddenly crash in the middle of one disk
>all the nods to past lore and reading about all the races and classes as you try to figure out what to play as
Never gonna get that feeling from a game ever again.
Who the frick wouldn't have brought their GBA with them???
Her games have manuals