Console game with the thickest instruction book?

EA used to include pretty thick instruction books with their games. But that was before they came to the conclusion that smaller European languages, like Swedish, Norwegian and Greek doesn't matter. Now it's just English, French, German and sometimes Spanish or Italian.

But I guess multilingual instuction books doesn't count?

 

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The Lotus game for MegaDrive made by Electronic Arts gets my vote.

 

loaded for PAL-PS1 came in one of those double boxes (the ones that can hold up to 4 CDs) even tho the game is on a single disc, the manual is massive..

 

I think with multilingual booklets you should only count the size of one of the languages maybe??

 

Nah ... Besides, this gives Europe an advantage over US and Japan, where a bigger number of games was published. Hehe. Just counted pages of manuals for PAL Tekken 2 and 3. TK2 is 70+ pages and TK3 ups it by ten more pages, making it 80+ ... I might check other games later, but I remember some PlayStation games had huge manuals. This was of course due to multiple languages, so don't spoil the fun!

 

I remember that the first Need for Speed (PAL) for the PlayStation had a very thick manual.