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we really need to get people to start reading the manuals! look up a scan online, they're mostly all there the games were designed around you reading the instructions and understanding complex inputs that you might not easily discover on your own also they just have fun lore, concept art, etc.

This has mainly been spurred by vids of people going "I finally tried *acclaimed game*" and then they end up hating it because they operated on some really flawed assumptions that modern games tend to instill in the player, I wanna help dispel them before they ruin a game they would've liked

Also I've been through this myself lol, I think when you play games from your childhood and beyond you develop an instinct for the design patterns there, but when you go to games from before your time those insticts suddenly stop working, even if those games are actually simpler overall

Old games absolutely decimate the naturally incurious types too lol, but like... it's not like those people are incapable of enjoying old games, they were enjoying those games back in the day too. Again it's just about stripping the assumptions away and operating under a different set of assumptions