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JBeckman
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Leisure Suit Larry 5 had the phone numbers you needed to know inside the manual, have the compilation disc somewhere here (1 - 6 plus some extras with 6 being the low-res version.) still but I've no idea where said manual is, one reason perhaps why bundling PDF manuals on the disc is becoming more popular.
(Actual reason being it's cost efficient to use a digital manual instead of a printed one, box itself is also cheap plastic now and very rarely extras like metal is used for CE's, those large paper boxes are all but gone and other stuff is shrinking as well like said game manuals only including the essentials whereas stuff like the Baldurs Gate or Arcanum manual spanned a few hundred pages with all sorts of info in them.)
EDIT: Found the Arcanum manual, it's at 195 pages.
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Hell, Leisure Suit Larry even had AGE checks at the start.. asking questions kids generally don't know, in order to prove you were old enough to play. That was damned fun.
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Bigperm
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Location: Alberta,Canada
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I had a photo copier back in they day. We actually took apart the monkey island wheels and made our own. Used to have about 5 -6 reams worth of paper manuals that we photo copied.
The only tough ones were the papers that came with the original terminator or dragons layer. They used colors combination's to try and defeat the photo copier.
I remember the old sierra copy protection, where it had bad sectors intentionally on the disk, but was to hard to recreate with some leg work, and once the disk was made, it worked for every sierra product at the time.
Those days were fun.
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Dream Web, for example, had all the important ingame door codes and computer passwords written down in the novella/"diary" that came with the game. You could guess the door codes, since they were only four digit codes, if you persevered -- but computer passwords? You needed to KNOW those 
