Do You Miss Video Game Instruction Manuals? – That Green Dude

Remember video game instruction manuals? The booklets that came with video games that were full of information about the game. They gave you the synopsis of the story, the game’s controls and some included artwork.

Instruction manuals used to be with every single game you bought but they have faded out in recent years. The eighth (current) generation of video games has seen physical instruction manuals pretty much disappear completely in favour of digital versions. People can view instruction manuals online or download them to any device like a laptop, tablet or phone for convenience.

The slow yet eventual disappearance of manuals is rather sad, to me especially. I have fond memories of spending my pocket money on second-hand games and reading their instruction manuals on the journey home. I would sit on the bus and read on how to play the game before I got home. I did it for every second-hand game and I still do when I buy some retro games.

However, I can no longer do this if I buy a pre-owned PS4 or Xbox One game as they don’t have manuals (one exception that I know of is The Witcher 3). All you get now with physical purchases of video games is the box, the game disc and a couple of pieces of paper advertising other games. The lack of an instruction manual has led some to ask a couple of questions, are physical games still worth buying and if so should they still cost 拢45/ $60?

Those questions are worth asking and should set up some form of discussion. I have a question myself concerning instruction manuals. Do you miss video game instruction manuals?

That’s the question I put forward and respond to it in any way you like; be it a comment down below, a written piece in response to this, a video or an audio recording. However, you answer this question is up to you. Also,聽feel free to respond to the other questions above as I’m interested in what people think about this topic.

I put forward questions like this every so often to get a discussion going and to see what the general consensus is about the thing in question. One question I raised last year is,聽do you think the seventh generation consoles are now retro?

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