User:The Other Jared/Instruction Booklet

An Instruction Booklet, sometimes reffered to as a Manual, is a small, thin piece of educational literature. One usually accompanies an appliance, hardware or software that cannot easily be learned in an intuitive way and contains written and occasionally pictorial instructions on how to use it. Instruction Booklets rose in popularity during the 1800s and 1900s, when more advanced machinery was being made available to the average consumer than ever before. It was impractical to have a specialist go to every individual owner of a machine and teach them how to use it. This was also the era where a majority of humans knew how to read for the first time in history, making written instructions the most convenient option. While Instruction Booklets can still be occasionally found today, they started to fall out of fashion during the 2000s. The rise of the internet at this time gave the average person easy, unlimited access to information about not just the products they own, but anything in general, making the physical booklet redundant and a waste of resources.

Every installment in the  series has been accompanied by some kind of Instructional Booklet, which always came free as part of the full package.

In Super Smash Bros.
An instructional booklet was provided with all new copies of the game. The booklet is 14 full color pages in length. The booklet goes through the basic controls, brief explanations of all game modes, all items grouped together by functionality, and every fighter along with their special moves and their corresponding home stage. The booklet also includes a notes section and warranty notice.

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In Super Smash Bros. Melee
An instructional booklet was provided with all new copies of the game. the booklet is 51 full color pages in length.

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Australia

In Super Smash Bros. Brawl
An Instructional Booklet was provided with all new copies of the game. The booklet is 54 full color pages in length. This booklet is the first in the series to use multiple languages in the same booklet. The NTSC version features the same 15 pages translated into English, French and Spanish.

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In
An Instructional Booklet was provided with all new copies of the game. Like Brawl, the booklet uses multiple languages. Smash 4 was the first game in the series that had the option to download the directly to the system. This means that a significant amount of players would not have access to a physical booklet. The team created the work around of providing a digital booklet in the options menu.

In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Ultimate is the first in the series to not ship with a physical booklet at all. Instead, the digital instructions from Smash 4 has been greatly expanded into the Help menu.

A Fan-made Instruction Booklet has been made for the game.