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DarkConfidant Since: Aug, 2011
2012-05-13 14:03:37

It's closely related to the concept of Feelies, though that's more of a supertrope.

FuzzyWulfe Since: Nov, 2010
2012-05-13 15:34:10

That or there's a trope I can't seem to find that is Copy Protection for puzzles where the answer was a word from a specific place in the manual. Sierra games were most famous for it. Don't have the manual, can't get past the puzzle to finish the game.

ZombieAladdin Since: Nov, 2010
2012-05-14 13:20:37

Or Star Tropics with its paper to dunk in water. Sounds like an anti-piracy maneuver, except it wouldn't work as the site would be available to everybody. What's the intention, or likely intention, of this game mechanc? I've never encountered such a thing.

FuzzyWulfe Since: Nov, 2010
2012-05-14 17:20:30

It could be an anti-piracy maneuver that understands you might loose the manual. I think it's Star Tropics that they made a digital version of the paper when they put the game on Virtual Console, and you click it to "dunk" it. That could put it into Guide Dang It! territory.

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