Helpful, cool little booklets

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…