Mourning the death of the manual.

[Pike]

I remember having detailed manuals was something of an anti-piracy measure. I can remember checking out a few walkthroughs that actually would answer questions about controls with "buy the damn game and read the manual".

I recall some Commodore 64 games from way back in the day that did this. They'd have sections that you could not pass unless you entered a code from the manual. Cracked games were huge back then. (We had a bunch )