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[pochepiller2]

Back in the days PC games came in big boxes and sometime had manual worthy of a small book.

My favorite was Aces Of The Pacific manual by Dynamix. It got the aircraft, the flying tactics, the history of the war and more.

Here it is:

Download Aces of the Pacific | Abandonia

www.abandonia.com

 

[Urprobablyright]

interesting question.. for me it's the civilzation 3 complete edition manual, because it's all i could look at for 2 weeks while my mum returned a disc that came scratched. in my mind all civ games after civ 3 are, despite being good, of a different series.

 

[small_law]

Hands down Starfleet Command Volume Two. There was a resource manual the size of a novel that went into excruciating detail about each race in the game and the philosophies and technologies of their fleets. It was a mini Star Trek encyclopedia packed in with game. Whoever wrote that thing must have really truly cared about Star trek.

 

[Dr.D00p]

Homeworld.

 

[bad guy]

Flying Corps also had a cool manual with flight tactics. My favorite PC manual would have to be the Mechwarrior 2 manual.

 

[diffusionx]

Warcraft 2 is mine, I read that thing so many times.

The Civ 2 manual also had a long piece written by Brian Reynolds that went over in incredible detail their design decisions and goals for the game. It's real gold for anyone interested in game design.