Since somebody shared this nice comic about manuals in games in another community, I was thinking about them myself.
My most cherished game manual was the Diablo 2 one. The way they created a little story for each single ability was such an atmospheric wonder and probably started my fascination with lore instead of story. They were also probably the main reason why I took the necromancer and started to feel bored, when necromancer are automatically evil in a setting. Get creative!
My father had Falcon 4.0 and that was “just” a technical manual in itself. 5+ cm thick and full of schematics of the cockpit. I was in awe as a child about the complexity of that thing.
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The manual is basically copy protection, but it’s funny.
That said, breast manual by far: it’s SNES’ Earthbound. Scratch 'n Sniff ftw.