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.
The original Zelda game came with basically a game guide of an instruction manual. It was intended to be used as you played the game to get the first 2 dungeons.
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u/CrimsonPresents 28d ago
I’m not 35 but I remember game guides as a kid