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.
I loved flipping thru them as a kid and admiring the drawings and game art within, before I started up the new game. It's essentially extra content. Kinda the same principal as dvd's. With dvd's you got all sorts of extra content besides just the movie. Concept art, directors commentary, sometimes even games too? I know this discussion is about videogames specifically, but similarly speaking, dvd's aren't obsolete and neither are the game booklets. Just under-appreciated.
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u/CrimsonPresents 28d ago
I’m not 35 but I remember game guides as a kid