(07-03-2012 05:53 AM)Nuudoru Wrote:  I remember back in the NES days when you didn't understand anything because they didn't say ANYTHING in the game. Then one day you looked in the manual out of boredom and got this gigantic backstory, art of how things actually looked, name of the enemies and sometimes even items you never figured out how to use. Now that I think about it, I think this was more common on PC games.

(07-03-2012 06:00 AM)Beardy Wrote:  

(07-03-2012 05:53 AM)Nuudoru Wrote:  I remember back in the NES days when you didn't understand anything because they didn't say ANYTHING in the game. Then one day you looked in the manual out of boredom and got this gigantic backstory, art of how things actually looked, name of the enemies and sometimes even items you never figured out how to use. Now that I think about it, I think this was more common on PC games.

I remember this in Street Fighter 2. The manual claimed Dhalsim breathed fire because of his "spicy curry breath". A lot of them were wonderfully bodged together by people who had nothing to do with the game.

(07-03-2012 05:39 AM)DHXIII Wrote:  

(07-03-2012 05:29 AM)Gatsby the Crab Wrote:  Manuals still exist. Games on Nintendo consoles pretty much always have manuals, so I'm not sure what you're talking about. P:

I can understand why games on PS3/360 dont have manuals, though. They walk you through the game every 5 seconds and always have button prompts when you're near an interactable object. :B

Nope. 3DS games have started to lack manuals in favour of poster type things. Nintendo now put the manual on the actual game cart for the 3DS.

(07-03-2012 06:14 AM)DHXIII Wrote:  

(07-03-2012 06:00 AM)Beardy Wrote:  

(07-03-2012 05:53 AM)Nuudoru Wrote:  I remember back in the NES days when you didn't understand anything because they didn't say ANYTHING in the game. Then one day you looked in the manual out of boredom and got this gigantic backstory, art of how things actually looked, name of the enemies and sometimes even items you never figured out how to use. Now that I think about it, I think this was more common on PC games.

I remember this in Street Fighter 2. The manual claimed Dhalsim breathed fire because of his "spicy curry breath". A lot of them were wonderfully bodged together by people who had nothing to do with the game.

I loved how in the PAL instructions for Metroid they wrongly refer to Samus as a he throughout the whole manual.

From this I can assume the person who created the manual hadn't completed the game and just assumed, That probably explains why manuals had little to do with the game, As the people who made them hadn't properly played the game.

Another funny thing you find in retro games is that the images on the back of the box tend to be in the first few levels which makes me think the graphic designers didn't complete the games they made boxart for either. However, the most hilarious thing you find is that on NES boxes the pictures used on the back were taken with a camera! Top quality stuff!

(07-03-2012 06:28 AM)Gatsby the Crab Wrote:  

(07-03-2012 05:39 AM)DHXIII Wrote:  

(07-03-2012 05:29 AM)Gatsby the Crab Wrote:  Manuals still exist. Games on Nintendo consoles pretty much always have manuals, so I'm not sure what you're talking about. P:

I can understand why games on PS3/360 dont have manuals, though. They walk you through the game every 5 seconds and always have button prompts when you're near an interactable object. :B

Nope. 3DS games have started to lack manuals in favour of poster type things. Nintendo now put the manual on the actual game cart for the 3DS.

Hah, don't own a 3DS so I wouldn't know! /poor

That's depressing but I can kind of understand what they're doing, what with Virtual Console/WiiWare games having manuals in game and stuff. I dig it! It's a nice approach. Isn't the same, though. At least not IMO.

(07-03-2012 06:28 AM)Beardy Wrote:  

(07-03-2012 06:14 AM)DHXIII Wrote:  

(07-03-2012 06:00 AM)Beardy Wrote:  

(07-03-2012 05:53 AM)Nuudoru Wrote:  I remember back in the NES days when you didn't understand anything because they didn't say ANYTHING in the game. Then one day you looked in the manual out of boredom and got this gigantic backstory, art of how things actually looked, name of the enemies and sometimes even items you never figured out how to use. Now that I think about it, I think this was more common on PC games.

I remember this in Street Fighter 2. The manual claimed Dhalsim breathed fire because of his "spicy curry breath". A lot of them were wonderfully bodged together by people who had nothing to do with the game.

I loved how in the PAL instructions for Metroid they wrongly refer to Samus as a he throughout the whole manual.

From this I can assume the person who created the manual hadn't completed the game and just assumed, That probably explains why manuals had little to do with the game, As the people who made them hadn't properly played the game.

Another funny thing you find in retro games is that the images on the back of the box tend to be in the first few levels which makes me think the graphic designers didn't complete the games they made boxart for either. However, the most hilarious thing you find is that on NES boxes the pictures used on the back were taken with a camera! Top quality stuff!

I'm all set for tonight. Gonna be browsing old game manuals.

(07-03-2012 06:35 AM)DHXIII Wrote:  Thank you Beardy: