(Obligatory “I wish we still got pack-in material in the new games” “Oh, I wish we still got - you know - packaging these days”)
(Obligatory “I wish we still got pack-in material in the new games” “Oh, I wish we still got - you know - packaging these days”)
I literally went to the comments to write that :D It really is such a shame.
I still think of the National Enquirer ripoff that was included in the Zak McKraken box. Young me didn’t realise it was a hint book masquerading as a faux-gossip rag.
The trinkets and inclusions in big box games were cool, whether they were required (Lenslok, codewheels etc) or otherwise.
I remember Star Siege and MechWarrior 3 coming with a big novella book of some sort, accompanying the manual, and Sim City 3000 came with a wire bound TOME of a book lol. RTS games would often come with big foldout tech trees and stuff too.
The original manual for The Sims was really fun to read too because it was full of humorous witticisms at every turn.