Printed video game instruction manuals are mostly a thing of the past. Which is a shame, because they were often a source of confusion and amusement in the way they mistranslated things or just contained bizarre details.nnnSome of the gaming facts these booklets contained weren't that important, but a lot of them were just plain weird. From giving you too many details about characters' lives to explaining some creepy concept at the heart of a game, video game manuals did it all.nnnWe combed through a bunch of collections online and picked out the strangest secrets buried inside instruction manuals. As a certain famous plumber would put it, here we go!

8. Dr. Robotnik is a feministrnrnrnSometimes all it takes is a single word to change how we look at a villain. That’s what hap

Printed video game instruction manuals are mostly a thing of the past. Which is a shame, because they were often a source of confusion and amusement in the way they mistranslated things or just contained bizarre details.nnnSome of the gaming facts these booklets contained weren't that important, but a lot of them were just plain weird. From giving you too many details about characters' lives to explaining some creepy concept at the heart of a game, video game manuals did it all.nnnWe combed through a bunch of collections online and picked out the strangest secrets buried inside instruction manuals. As a certain famous plumber would put it, here we go!

8. Dr. Robotnik is a feministrnrnrnSometimes all it takes is a single word to change how we look at a villain. That’s what happened with Dr. Robotnik in Sonic Heroes.rnrnrnThe instruction manual gives us his qualities, including that he is a romanticist and a self-professed gentleman, and a feminist?rnrnrnThis is both insane and inaccurate, but we’ll be happy to retract the statement if Fourth Wave feminism involves turning people into robots.more...