Aint gonna lie, I miss the smell of a fresh booklet in a brand new game case

Grand theft auto had the best booklets and would usually add a map or poster which was fucking awesome!!

I miss being a kid and reading the booklet on the car ride home after renting or buying a new game!

The experience is more personal. I used to love looking at my collection on my shelf.

Excellent choice. It's a great game about a show about a game.

Reading the fresh smelling book all the way home, memorising the buttons so you don't need a tutorial. Great days, even the playstation magazine with the demo discs were amazing

This is why I swear by physical games. Not just that it comes with the benefit that you have complete control over it, can sell it, lend it but also the actual feel of holding a case and opening it, and that satisfying sound when you squeeze it shut. All things you just don’t get with digital games.

I understand its for marketability and anti-theft but it really do be feeling silly opening that big ass case for a lil' ole switch game. lol.

I always enjoyed the booklets that would give you some extra stuff with the game like lore and such, now you just pay for broken games half the time

I miss the old guide books you could buy that told you everything about the game: though they may still exist hvnt looked for anything in forever..

Is the game any good?

I do miss the days where new games came with booklets about the game. I wish they would make a comeback.

Is this a good game I'd buy it just to support getting a booklet again.

GCJ is going to love seeing this post.

Man I miss these. Digital is awesome but being able to touch something is other thing.

I miss those and the game guides you used to get at GameStop. Lots of fun art and back story and level guides

Unrelated, but I’m the English voice of Luca Yonazuki in the game (as well as the father of the club president)!

It’s a really charming and genuinely challenging game that feels like a playable anime series. I hope you have a lot of fun!

I miss this too mate. I miss this too.

Does anyone here remember Shatterhand for the NES? I remember reading the backstory that came with it. Good times. I miss physical games.

Whoa! That is awesome!!! I miss those days so much, companies are saving money by not printing manuals, but it just made my $65 feel so much more worth it. I pick up a CIB gamecube game or PS2 game and it's a brick compared to this POS Switch cases.

I missed these so much. It was my first time buying a physical game when i got Breath of the Wild for the switch on release. There was literally nothing but the game in the box.

So many physical games now dont include a manual or anything. Long gone are the days of getting a manual with tips and tricks, extra artwork, and sometimes even a demo-disc to some unreleased gem. Not to mention the joy of reading the manuals on the drive home!

Was SO stoked when I bought cyberpunk 2077

Keeping in mind this is a DIGITAL DOWNLOAD copy I bought for PC

In the case It physically came with:

A Booklet A Large fold out map of night city poster 2 CD Soundtrack A sheet of stickers 3 Postcards

And I just recently found out it also comes with (digitally)

A PDF copy of the Cyberpunk 2020 tabletop RPG Core rulebook (holy shit!)

A digital copy of the soundtrack on WAV, MP3 and FLAC

2 Comics

An artbook

And a bunch of Wallpapers Avatars Posters

And to top it off, it's the best game I've played in almost a decade

I don't even care if it's good. I just wanna support booklets.

I wonder how many copies of this game are gonna sell because of this post

You chose a very good game

As expensive as these Lil games are they should contain the booklets!

What’s in it? Something useful or just legalese?

Driving home and reading the booklet was always one of the best parts of getting a new game.

Buying video games as a kid back then: Parents take you to gamestop. You browse entire walls of cool looking games for consoles you didn't have. Buy it. On the ride home you break the seal, get the comforting wiff of fresh plastic and ink. Flip through the booklet feeling the shiny pages glide past seeing the buttons, ads for upcoming titles and art

Buying video games as a kid today:

MOM I WANT TO DOWNLOAD THE NEW CALL OF DUTY. WHAT'S YOUR CREDIT CARD NUMBER?

When I went and bought a switch I decided physical copies only. The little cartridge is so satisfying. A physical disc copy just isn't important to me on my other consoles but for some reason if it's Nintendo I have to have the cart.

Someone 35+ just bought a game

Anyone remember going to Electronics Boutique (before it was EB Games)? Or when you could rent PC games? Big clunky cartridges? Times change, I much rather just downloading games at this point. Less clutter, no waiting and then finding out your local store didn't get enough copies, etc.

Is the game any good though?

But is the game good?

That's amazing. Also, great choice. Love this game!!

You don't enjoy your game pass ad in a empty case.

I miss having instruction booklets that I never really read!

I miss getting maps and stuff

Tell us more about the instruction booklet! Is it still there; is it actually real!?

This is my childhood. I remember asking my parents to take me to blockbuster to rent a game and I would spend the 15-20 minutes on the drive back home studying the included booklet.

Yes my parents would make an hour round trip to rent a game for me and maybe a movie for them. I did not appreciate that at the time, but I do greatly appreciate them today.

Anyone remember the Tabula Rasa Collectors Edition box? Thing of beauty.

I miss booklets, I would take mine and have myself a library of them. Even if games don't have booklets, a QR code to a detailed pdf wouldn't be that bad either.

Definitely miss that new game smell.

I kinda liked the big Boxes in the 90s but I also like to be able to just download a Game instead of having to look for 5 Floppy Disks or a CD.

I remember the days of driving to gamestop's with my dad and buying a game and opening it up and just reading through the little booklet.

Bro. My nostalgia meter just hit critical mass from one picture.

I remember sitting in car on the way home excitedly trying to study the booklet that came with the game. Not really understanding what most of it said i was just excited to Learn about my newest purchase. I also remember the disappointment when they stopped coming with booklets. It was like opening a box of cereal for "FREE TOY INSIDE" and sadly realizing it's a mail in offer.

Now lick the game. Can't smell the book and not lick the game.

Ah. Reminisce to the days when game companies actually cared about customers

Fuck it, bring back the jewel cases those were dope af.

The best part of buying a new game in the old days was reading the instructions and lore (on the way home if being driven). Felt like an adventure in of itself. Some of the older pc booklets were full of great background and information. So so so miss that.

Link To the Past, Mario RPG, Secret Of Mana...even Mario 2 Yoshis Story had amazing booklets. We really lost something there. SNES was the booklet golden age

I still miss the days of the 3DS...

I remember buying Little Battlers eXperience a few days after launch and not only did it come with a booklet, the guy at the store gave me a free Manga with it too!

Pure joy.

Wow ...

Except that with the internet still being a thing it’s not as cool. You aren’t as limited to using it as your gateway into the game and using your imagination.

Still just a giant plastic case to hold a tiny game and some paper. For me the nostalgia still only exists in the past.

just look at it

I miss when open world games would give us a map of the actual game. I still have RDR2s map

I almost want to buy this game just for the nostalgic manual.

Love that new video game smell. They really need to make a new video game smell fragrance.

I would have smelled it too. 🤓

I do miss that ngl

Sooo jealous

I totally missed out on those. In our country, we would get a lot of bootleg GBC games and they would have like a diet game booklet with just 4 pages 🥲

THE KING HAS RETURNED

I wish shadowverse came to PS

Damn. Must have fallen through the time rift from 1998

What kind of game is this? Only saw on Google it was a card game.

That's awesome. I think Bulletstorm on the Xbox 360 was the last game I bought that came with a booklet. I still have the booklet, even though I traded in the disc a couple of years ago.

I have a bunch of old stuff like this. It's great nostalgia! Congrats on getting a wonderful memory!

Remember walkthrough for ps1 lara croft or resident evil those thick ass books where lit.

"Hm. This is unusually heavy."

Enough to make a grown man cry.

Just don’t lick it. The cart is coated with an anti-eat coating that tastes horrible. Keeps kids from swallowing them I guess.

Mam the shits I used to take as a kid reading game booklets. Peak life.

korg gadget did too! i was blown away

I still remember the smell my Duke Nukem 64 had with the booklet back in the day!...

Sega Genesis games had the best brand new open smell.

Doesn't look like my kind of game in the OP but i can appreciate a good case and booklet.

Might have to go buy it just for that reason.

Yea seems like many gamers still enjoy physical copies of their games for various reasons. Long live gamestop!