Quote Originally Posted by frogbeastegg View Post
I have never ceased to miss the chunky manuals. I have mourned their passing since the day I first opened a game to find a leaflet inside. Paper maps, keyboard layouts with the hotkeys all labelled, charts ...


Lords of the Realm 2 and (especially) Klingon Academy will always retain a special place in my hear for their hefty manuals alone. Now *that's* what you call reading material!


Quote Originally Posted by frogbeastegg View Post
The jumbo cardboard boxes are a different matter. I still have the cardboard boxes for some of my favourites, and inside them I've packed the manuals from the games whose boxes I couldn't keep. That there explains the difference: I don't have space to keep many of those boxes. DVD cases are more practical.
I still miss the larger boxes to some extent, but not as much as I once thought I would. I still prefer the (smaller) boxes over CD/DVD cases, however.