• darkpanda@lemmy.ca
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    7 months ago

    PC games in he 90s were like cereal boxes filled with a few CDs and a the barest of a manual. In the 80s it was the same except it was floppy disks and the manual was needed to get through the copy protection. Sometimes you’d even get a decoder ring of some sorts to decode something for the copy protection.

    Good times.

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      7 months ago

      Ayy, there were some good game manuals in the 90’s. Heck, the best one I remember was for the first Europa Universalis, and that came out in 2000!

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        7 months ago

        I remember the Kings Quest VI manual came with a red film thingy that you could use to read hints to avoid spoilers. Pretty rad.