they dont make games where you have to dip the instruction manuals in water to reveal secret codes anymore. the promise of technological progress has been exposed as a hollow lie

the first time i played Startropics as a child, i rented it from our local video store, and it did not come with the instructions, and i was losing my FUCKING MIND

So true

Special markers to reveal progressively more explicit hints in the hint book 🥲

You can't even have the codec frequency at the back of the game box anymore. Because of woke