Handheld Gaming

Written By: Jack Smith - • •

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Gamers Reflect on What They’ll Miss Most About the Old Days (1up)

Gaming is rapidly changing. Whether we’re talking about things becoming more
digital or new business models or whatever else, the industry already looks a
great deal different than it did 10 or 20 years ago and that’s only going to
continue in the coming decades.

As with anything in entertainment that changes, people are going to yearn for
the way things used to be (while also worrying about what the future will
bring). For me, one of the things I miss most is the sort of manuals games
used to come with. What I looked forward to most when first buying a new game,
regardless of what it was, was opening the box up and flipping through the
manual before actually trying the game out. And I’m not just talking about
spending time devouring the pages of a manual (or whatever other paperwork a
PC game would come with — keyboard shortcut cards, tech trees, etc. — as it
installs); console and handheld game manuals had to be read cover to cover
before the game went into the system. This wasn’t a matter of preparing for
games with no tutorials, as I treated those …

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Portable Gaming is Dead.