Remember when your manual was just as thick as the box it came in? This mainly applied to RPG games, but they were still neccescary to even get a game to run back in the good ol days. These were lovingly created and wrapped up and put into the box. With the price of the game, it probably tacked on 10% of the price.

Other then being used for copywrite purposes (line 8 - pg 123 word 4, type it in or your game will explode and teh fuzz will be on yo door dawg), a manual can be used for a multitude of real life interaction with your game. An exaple could be hidden passwords for doors or cryptic clues, UV lights come with your game to find the evidence. I dunno, how bout a random picture in the credits page thats the face of the killer, and your like lol WUT.

The only manual a game has came with in recent memory that had some effort put into it was Grand Theft auto - San andreas, while totally useless in its own write, presenting it as a brouchur was a neat idea (forgive me if they had done this for previous GTA games, i never played them, except for the original 2d versions).

Note - This is a 2 parter with Death of the non casual game. thingy. Let me know what you think in comments.

Nintendo, you need to be stopped. If i wanted to pick up and play a game, i would have done that with every other game i have ever bought. No i prefer to sit there and stare at them. God forbid i actually pick it up and "play it". Also referred to as the casual game.

I swear if one more game comes out that says "Easy to pick up and play" (that dosnt have a tube of arthritis cream with it so people with arthritis can actually like, pick it up.) i am going to explode.

Remember when games used to beat you? When you spent a week trying to beat the god damn level, and then it was all like epic win when you did and you threw the controller across the room and it richochet of the wall and hit the eject button on your console which then proceeded to vomit your game out of the spot where it goes in and your dog grabs it and you find it 2 days latter protruding out of your dogs rectum because it cant actually expell it? ( /breathes)

These things belong on the internet, and they deserve to be free, and the god damn Wii vital watchamacally is retarded. Apparently it helps you sleep. Go die.