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Ron Gilbert (GrumpyGamer)I started making game in an era before there were tutorials, but we had 30 minutes of floppy disk installs to read the manual.
Gary Parker@grumpygamer 15 minutes of loading from tape offered a similar pause in the 8-bit era 😀
tuglaw@grumpygamer People nowadays reading this and thinking "what's a game 'manual'?"
Ric@grumpygamer I used to come home from school, slap a tape in the computer and do my homework while I waited for it to load only to eventually find, on more than one occasion, that it wasn't the game I expected it to be and had to then either begrudgingly play it anyway or wait another age for a different tape to load.
For some utterly absurd reason, this didn't put me off wanting to be a developer myself 🤷♂️
Where did our patience for these things go?
IEP@grumpygamer I used to take all my manuals with me to the bathroom. Ahhh, good times.
Especially with the big boy manual books like baldurs gate
Especially with the big boy manual books like baldurs gate
gullevek ⚛️@grumpygamer i was dialing the dial-a-pirate while the game loaded :)
Farbs@grumpygamer I kinda miss reading the manual on the bus home from the game store.
Tom Forsyth@Farbs @grumpygamer I remember I bought a game called "UFO: Enemy Unknown" basically minutes before we went on holiday, so I spent the whole week of the holiday reading every word of the manual fifty times and thinking it sounded like an amazing game. And you know what - it was :-)
Ha! Relatable.
I blame my videogame interest & career on the household rule of no computer time during the week. So all week every week I read computer magazines and programming manuals.
mrkite@grumpygamer I always used the car ride home for my manual reading.
Raul Portales@grumpygamer this is being replaced by 50+ Gb downloads, but we don't have a manual to read while we wait :-)
Viiri@grumpygamer …and then disk 9/10 was corrupted 😬
Mehrkorn@grumpygamer Installs? I remember I had to switch between four floppies to play Monkey Island.
By the time, they were ordered no longer by disk number, but by Melee Island locations from west to east.
Marvin@grumpygamer Those were the happy tomes when no tutorial was a 40 video with shaky blurriness and blaring music for sonthing that could have been explained in 20 short sentences and two schematic images…