....the big, flat, record-album like sleeves the old computer games used
to come in? The Bards Tale series, The Seven Cities of Gold -- was it
just EA games, or did Broderbund use them too? I used to love the big
cover art and correspondingly oversized instruction manuals that used to
come tucked in the sleeve on the front panel. They were more like
narrations - they had an introduction, and were sometimes written as if
from a character in the game, with incomplete lists and everything.

I just bought a new game from Target this weekend, and sighed when I
realized it was just a DVD case with a cardboard wraparound. The
instruction manual looked like a folded brochure. They really don't
make em like they used to.