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[–] tidderuuf@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There were even quite a few games from the 80s and 90s that required you to use the manual in order to play with translations, instructions, sometimes even hidden codes to move forward.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

there would almost always be a moment where you'd use the manual to answer a password and that was their copy protection. that kind of copy protection continued into the 90s

[–] Drasglaf@sopuli.xyz 2 points 14 hours ago

Up to the late 90s at least, Metal Gear Solid had a moment where, in order to progress, you had to enter a codec frequency that was in the back of the CD case.