by Paul Dowling, American Thinker: The Plymouth Colony began as a collectivist commune, the idea being that everyone should participate according to the best of one’s ability, but that everybody should receive an equal reward. This meant working harder would not bring higher compensation, and working less would incur no penalty. The food shortage created […]

by Dean Bowen, America Outloud: There’s more to the Pilgrim’s story than the flight across the Atlantic on the Mayflower. There’s an amazing backstory that began two decades earlier at the death of two well-known Puritan leaders. 1593, while Elizabeth was still sitting on the throne as Queen of England, Puritan leaders Henry Barrowe and […]

It has been a long time since I have reflected on my love for video game manuals since their existence has been obliterated with the evolution of video games in the last twenty years. However, an adventure game called Tunic, released in 2022, reminded me of the intrinsic value of a good manual in a number of ways. Manuals were the entry point into a video game before even inserting a cartridge or disc and pressing the power button. The words and images held within were informative, instructional, and in the early days of gaming, pivotal to world and story-building. Tunic is a game that reminds me very much of The Legend of Zelda on the NES, where you are dropped into a world with little information and learn how to play through actual gameplay. As you proceed through the game, you find pages of the video game manual along the way, giving you not only instructions on how to play but also solutions to puzzles within the game. The pages are brilliantly strewn throughout the game, and you are incentivized to find them all to help you complete the game. One missing page could be detrimental to solving a specific puzzle. Since I am a stickler for owning physical copies of games, I was ecstatic to discover that my copy of Tunic came with a physical manual. Flipping through those pages unearthed so much nostalgia for a medium Read the rest of this article on page 40 by clicking here!       Be sure to sign up to get Old School Gamer Magazine for free by clicking here! The post The Video Game Manual (The Lost Art) – By Anthony Ripo appeared first on Old School Gamer Magazine.

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