There were rental places that didn’t include the manual?
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LiterallyLMAO@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The worst was games that required info from the manual to progress past a certain point, like star tropics. Rented the game and the rental place didn’t include the manual? Shit out of luck. And no Internet back then to look it up, either. I remember some computer games would also do things like that to prevent copying the game from a friend, like requiring a certain word from a certain page before loading.
dan@upvote.au 1 week ago
njm1314@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Most if them
dan@upvote.au 1 week ago
Whenever I rented an N64 game, the manual was in the box, and the store would check to ensure the manual was there when you return the game. That was in Australia though, so maybe it was different in your country?
BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org 1 week ago
You can’t really generalise by country in this. Where I lived (NSW South coast) you didn’t even get the box. All the game cartridges were being the counter in a separate generic box with the name printed on it. The real boxes on the shelves were empty and you didn’t get to take them home.
nafzib@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Yeah, here in the U.S. at Blockbuster you would get a clear plastic case that held the game cartridge and that was it. They must have still kept some of the original boxes in their storage though, because I bought a used copy of Mega Man X for SNES from Blockbuster and it came in it’s original box, but with no manual.
teamevil@lemmy.world 1 week ago
One manual… where’d they get a replacement…it was like a library book, you had to return it.
prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
I owned Star tropics.
It took me a whole fucking summer to figure out what to do.
When I put that paper under the water and the code showed up …. 🤯🤯🤯
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I bought Sim City for PC at a used bookstore, and it didn’t come with the reference page for a code it would ask you for after playing a certain amount of time.
Without this code, the game would turn on all hazards (tornados, fires, flooding, Godzilla, etc) and make itself unplayable.
IHawkMike@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Also it was black on red to make it harder to photocopy. I remember my mom being proud that she’d used the filters on the fancy copier she had at work to copy this sheet.