Is this one of those “find the password to our DRM in the instruction manual” situations?
necro316
This made me fall in love with games
Lashiech
Newer generations will never understand the torment associated with:
– Installing a game you haven’t played in a while by cycling through 20 floppy disks, praying one isnt corrupt.
– then rifling through drawers of your comouter desk to find a shabby instruction manual
– finding the 5th word on page 36 so you can play the actual game.
Zerial-Lim
I remember a game even has its own puzzle piece left in MY HAND…. 1st generation immersive sim.
Ahhh Dune.. how i miss you. Ans wish for a remake.
digitalmusiclover
Me and my friends used to try to guess the Leisure Suit Larry age questions over and over and over until we got in. Then we wouldn’t know how to play it anyway and get stuck in the first area.
mr_nuts31
The best one would have to be the Indiana Jones point and click adventure game where it came with a physical copy of Indy’s journal and the security questions are based on what written in there.
Vadun
There was an old startrek game where you needed to plot a course to a specific planet they called out (it rotated).
If you picked the wrong planet, out-of several dozen, you get immediately destroyed by a cloaked bird of prey.
kiladre
I remember this for Masters of Orion, Stealth Fighter F117-A, and Mortal Kombat
TheChosenWaffle
Prince of Persia had you find potions with a letter corresponding to the manual.
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Oh, man. Right in the childhood. 🔥
Is this one of those “find the password to our DRM in the instruction manual” situations?
This made me fall in love with games
Newer generations will never understand the torment associated with:
– Installing a game you haven’t played in a while by cycling through 20 floppy disks, praying one isnt corrupt.
– then rifling through drawers of your comouter desk to find a shabby instruction manual
– finding the 5th word on page 36 so you can play the actual game.
I remember a game even has its own puzzle piece left in MY HAND…. 1st generation immersive sim.
I loved this game back in the day
My favourite is still the Leisure Suit Larry [age verification system](https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/pc/917513-leisure-suit-larry-1-in-the-land-of-the-lounge-lizards/faqs/36594/age-questions). It would ask you (horrendously dated) niche questions about boring adult shit that no kid would know, at a time when you couldn’t just look up the answers.
Ahhh Dune.. how i miss you. Ans wish for a remake.
Me and my friends used to try to guess the Leisure Suit Larry age questions over and over and over until we got in. Then we wouldn’t know how to play it anyway and get stuck in the first area.
The best one would have to be the Indiana Jones point and click adventure game where it came with a physical copy of Indy’s journal and the security questions are based on what written in there.
There was an old startrek game where you needed to plot a course to a specific planet they called out (it rotated).
If you picked the wrong planet, out-of several dozen, you get immediately destroyed by a cloaked bird of prey.
I remember this for Masters of Orion, Stealth Fighter F117-A, and Mortal Kombat
Prince of Persia had you find potions with a letter corresponding to the manual.
It looks like all my base are belong to him