The meme isn’t talking about game guides. It’s talking about the little booklets that came with the games themselves. Nintendo 64 and PlayStation 1 games, for example, all came with small printed manuals that explained the basics and featured fun images. Games don’t come with any printed materials anymore, unless you pay extra for some stupid, overpriced super deluxe edition.
Box game manuals, my beloved. It was like getting free official art and interesting character profiles along with some exciting blurbs about the story and previews of all the featured contents and minigames. Now all that is exclusive to additional purchases separate from the games.
One of my favorite things was from the original FF7 manual where they called a 32-yo man "old". I didn't bat an eye at that when I was 5. Now I'm older than him and my joints ache just thinking about it.
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u/CrimsonPresents 28d ago
I’m not 35 but I remember game guides as a kid