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About the manual, what I had in mind was something like two pages shown on one screen, or four pages across two screens. For example, I initially thought page 8 was supposed to come after page 9, which confused me for a little while.

Page 10 was also a bit harder for me to understand without a supporting image, so I think keeping each game's instructions visually grouped together could help a lot. That said, I can also see how adding more illustrations might make the manual easier to read overall, even if it means having more pages.

As for the walking sound effect — yes, that's basically what I meant. I can tell the timing is matched to the walking animation, but the sound itself doesn't quite read as footsteps to me. It might be a little too heavy or impactful, though I'm not completely sure how to describe it.

Thanks for asking!

'four pages across two screens' - So what you mean by this is the ability to duplicate the manual so that it can show all four pages?

I feel like the multiple page problem can be fixed with illustrations under each attract mode specification 

For example: 

'Ball always spawn at middle,  going towards the top of the Left Paddle' - For this I would put an illustration under this text showing a ball then an arrow pointing towards the top left going above the Left Paddle, with another arrow showing the Left Paddle is going up.

Now for the walking sound effect, I used this free sound asset From Zapsplat . I'll take note of this suggestion but first, I'll see if the footstep doesn't sound right for others too.

Thank you!

Ah, I think I explained that badly before!

What I mainly meant is that I'd prefer the two pages shown on the same screen to belong to the same game, instead of having the left page be about one game and the right page already starting the next one.

For example, if pages 8 and 9 are shown together, I'd expect them to both belong to the same arcade game. When one side starts explaining a different game, I instinctively read the two pages as a pair, so it confused me a little.

So I don't necessarily mean showing all four pages at once — more about keeping each game's instructions grouped together visually.

And yeah, I think adding illustrations under each instruction could help a lot too!