I shudder at imagining a lot of the earlier Sim* games without a manual and largely pre-web. Without the space or time to create digital help content, there was

I shudder at imagining a lot of the earlier Sim* games without a manual and largely pre-web. Without the space or time to create digital help content, there was so much that was only mentioned in the manuals! I remember the SimEarth one being a pretty hefty tome.