This week The Game Show gets into the packaging. Not the games themselves, but the boxes they came in and the manuals that used to be inside them.
Break makes the case for Zelda, Mario, and Final Fantasy. The gold Zelda cartridge, the manual maps, the Amano art on the Final Fantasy boxes. Jess brings a list that covers a lot more ground. Super Mario Strikers, Pokémon Pinball, Vice City, Kingdom Hearts, Nier Automata, Red Dead Redemption 2, Dragon Age Origins, Hades, X-Men Legends, The Sims Medieval, Animal Crossing Wild World, Harvest Moon Save the Homeland, Resident Evil 7, and Silent Hill Shattered Memories.
Along the way we talk about why manuals mattered, what got lost when publishers stopped printing them, and which covers still hold up.
