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Piracy was weird in the 90s.


Piracy was weird in the 90s.

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  1. juaninside_

    Still remember the old good Nero Burning Room and Alcohol 120%? šŸ¤£

  2. mrfixitx

    Leisure suit larry games had you answer questions that you would be unlikely to know the answer to if you were under age. I.E. pop culture and history references that would not be easy to find in a home encyclopedia to keep minors from playing them.

    Otherwise it was mostly a matter of NERO burning rom software and making sure you wrote down and did not loose the CD key.

  3. SubzeroNYC

    90s computer nerds were a special level of nerdiness

  4. Stiggan2k

    Remember in the late 90s when there was a dude selling burned games at a town market and no one thought anything about it. Also had hardware to run burned PS1-games. Remember he had the japanese FF8 that had just been released šŸ˜›

  5. Muffinshire

    ā€œHereā€™s a blank CD – go burn a Star War.ā€

  6. and this is already past the era of hacks with title pages

  7. imperialtrooper88

    Still remember burning at 4x…..lol, those days.

    I do miss lightscribe though.

  8. Vectorman1989

    My dad used to get pirated PC games collections from the IT guys at work. When the Playstation came out we got it chipped and he got pirated games for it.

  9. crispyraccoon

    Had a copy of a game that said “Do NOT make legal copies of this disk”

  10. RayRayCharlie

    Yeah, there’s just no effort put into it nowadays….

  11. Meneth32

    star war

    the third gathers

    backstroke of the west

  12. Part and limb number AK47M16IBM?!
    Slick Willy endorsement?!

    Incredible.

  13. sneekeruk

    Mr Blobby, Playdoh, Tango where the usual goto’s around here, along with the voodoo series.

    That was early to mid 90’s, Think I got my first cd burner around 1996, a 4x scsi panasonic for Ā£200, that I think at the beginning I could only write at 2x as an ISA scsi controller was too slow (even though it was Adaptec’s best isa card the 1542).

  14. mperezstoney

    ooooooo a fresh copy of star wars in .avi format!!!

  15. Goddamn_Batman

    I always liked Sierra’s anti-piracy, from the game manual enter the word on page 17, paragraph 2, word 4.

  16. Square-Jackfruit420

    There were literally game stores selling burned disks with multiple pirated games on them where i grew up lol
    Remember getting ps1 games for like $5 a pop, or dreamcast disk with a 100 nes games on it. Early internet days were crazy.

  17. BurnerDanBurnerMan

    SLICK WILLY ENDORSED!!

    Yes, this was absolutely the 90’s šŸ˜‚

  18. Shabbyyyyyyyy

    ā€œAll rights unreservedā€ – that cracked me up

  19. Raven185

    This CD had, AFAIR, Dark Forces 2 and its expansion, The Phantom Menace (the action/adventure game), Shadows of the Empire and maybe Yoda Stories.

  20. dj65475312

    i remember discs beading passed around when internet was only dial up, installing photoshop and random shit like professional home designer software on my pc only cos it was free.

  21. Hugh_Janus_2842

    Wow AK47M16ICBM

    AK47 (Gun)
    M16(Heavy machine Gun)
    ICBM (Inter Continental Ballistic Missile) (Possible Nuclear Payload)

    Don’t pirate games!!!

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