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I sometimes lose the manuals after a LONG while, so it's a very good thing I don't write anything in them. And that is about the console manuals. The handhelds I have no problem with. But still, I don't write in those either. I have the internetz for if I want to jot down cheat codes and strategies and the like!
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I've never written anything, I always try to keep my collection in perfect conditions. Booklets of current games are very poor and I don't like this thing. Sega when was an hardware house made many beautiful manuals, it was a pleasure to read and watch them. There was great care in their creation, there were often wonderful artworks and in a sense they were part of the game itself. Perphaps I'm a bit nostalgic, but I don't like very much actal trend, such as digital delivery for example. There are many games, and as fast as they come out, so quickly are forgotten.

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I'd write codes for levels in the games that didn't have battery back up, and sometimes cheats if I used them. I never really thought about keeping them in good condition because I always liked it if I bought a second hand game and it had the codes already written in the book. This was the time before you could just go on the internet for cheats though, and magazines would hawk some phone service called Cheatsman, or something like that, and charge £3 a nanosecond.
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Only one game in my whole gaming collection doesn't have a manual and that's Sonic Gems Collection because I bought it as a pre-Owned game from EB games and they didn't have the manual.
Why do I have a feeling that when I'm going to present my Sonic Collection one day, this will not be acceptable?

Sure adding some statues and books is OK but all this just for one Gaming Disk?
Why do I have a feeling that when I'm going to present my Sonic Collection one day, this will not be acceptable?

Geez, have you seen the Legendary pack of Halo Reach? IT"S A FREAKING CD FOR GOD SAKE!Page wrote:You are all way to young to remember Infocom games, but by god could they package a disk! You got all sorts of extras and props Take a look at this articleabout a time when manuals and packaging really meant something.

Sure adding some statues and books is OK but all this just for one Gaming Disk?
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I do remember them, I also remember PC games coming with massive tomes in which you needed the first word of line 7 on page 833 just so you could play the game. Not that it's relevant to my point about Instruction Manuals dieing out.Page wrote:You are all way to young to remember Infocom games, but by god could they package a disk! You got all sorts of extras and props Take a look at this articleabout a time when manuals and packaging really meant something.
Oh yea, some games I did write cheat codes and level codes in but only if I was really bad at the game and needed them otherwise I wouldn't deface my manuals.
What? I'm too lazy to trawl through your post history but I'm pretty sure you buy worthless Sonic shit all the time, this is no different it just comes with the game.Biggest sonic fan wrote:Geez, have you seen the Legendary pack of Halo Reach? IT"S A FREAKING CD FOR GOD SAKE!
Sure adding some statues and books is OK but all this just for one Gaming Disk?
Edit: Oh yea, inb4 ni no kuni.
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^You do have a point there but none of my packagings are the big. Biggest was the Sonic Colors Fan edition pack and if you count the hat but that's nothing compared to the Halo reach Legendary pack.
Oh and why do I have the feeling that the special stuff that come with the CoD games like the night vision goggles cost more than the game?
Oh and why do I have the feeling that the special stuff that come with the CoD games like the night vision goggles cost more than the game?
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