Building a piece of flat-packed furniture from IKEA can be an emotional rollercoaster. It is all worth it in the end, but the process can often seem like cruel and unusual torture by design. In a ...

The enduring appeal of Lego comes not from the complexity of the sets, nor the adorable minifigure versions of pop culture icons, but from the build process itself, and turning a box of seemingly ...

Instructions can be seen all around us in our daily lives. For example, on packets of food, in manuals or guidebooks, and even on the roads and streets outside. An instruction manual tells the reader ...

When you give an expensive toy to a child it is not unusual to find that they are more interested in the packaging than the gadget inside. This can be quite depressing, except if they are interested ...

The Super NES Classic has been out for almost a week and it's every bit the blissful nostalgia trip that was advertised. It faithfully captures the games of our youth, though there are certain ...

Last year, the NES Classic’s launch was met with something that I argued was more interesting and valuable in the game-preservation sense: a gigantic dump of NES and Famicom instruction manuals, all ...