@adampetrone Thick manuals came with Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe and Their Finest Hour. Flight simulators usually came with pretty hefty manuals, since flying is, well, complicated.
@adampetrone Loom actually came (in the floppy version) in a big box, with manual, disks, and a compact cassette with an audio play. The manual was not very thick, but more than other Lucasfilm games, due to the spells being described.
@inguin marketing...? Why was the Macintosh version so darn expensive? The pricing doesn't make sense at all.