Do you remember the first video game you pirated? What was it? How did you pirate it?
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Do you remember the first video game you pirated? What was it? How did you pirate it?
Do you remember the first video game you pirated? What was it? How did you pirate it?
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Probably torrents in 2005
postal 2
steamunlocked 2020
Takes of Bersaria for some reason. No idea where I got it from.
Diablo 2 with Lord Of Destruction expansion around 2004. I remember downloading from a rehost type site, like today's IGG-Games.com.
Game Dev Tycoon. Yes, I got BTFO’ed
Some Kirby game I think. Kirby was the first series I got into, back in elementary school. This was back when all the romsites would say "it's not illegal as long as you delete it within 24 hours" which even then I knew was bullshit.
When I was a kid, my father introduced me to Swap Magic for our PS2, then he'd get a bunch of illegally downloaded games that we could play using it, like DBZ Budokai and Jak 2.
I'd discover emulation myself through randomly browsing GameFAQs a few years later. First game I ever downloaded was Ace Attorney, considering my friends talked a lot about it and I could not find a copy.
Downloaded a shitty mario kart game for the gba on a now defunct website
It was either Gundam Wing: Endless Duel or the Super Mario RPG, from God knows what direct download site.
Emulation is not piracy.
>How did you pirate it?
You glow. You glow in the dark.
a magic school bus game when i was like 7 in 1999
Deus Ex in 2007
doom
Sometime in the 90s
Independence day the flight sim thing
Bought from the shop for lile 3 usd
>the first video game you pirated
Pokemon crystal because I saw my friends playing it and begged my parents for a copy. They didn't want to spend the money so my brother taught me how to play on the gbc emulator he installed on his pc.
If you count 300-in-1 carts as piracy then that would probably be my first instead.
I downloaded Pokemon Emerald on my phone back in like 2011 from CoolRoms.
When I was like 11 or 12 I randomly knew some Ganker tier neckbeards who were at least 18 and they showed me how to mod my PS2 and play burned discs on it. They burned a ton of ps1 and ps2 JRPGs for me, along with some japanese only games like Battle Stadium D.O.N. and Pop'n Music they really wanted me to play since they had the fancy imported controllers for it.
I knew how to use limewire before torrents growing up so most games that were easily gotten from limewire. I wanna say worms world party, pocket tanks, or red alert 2
>limewire
MY FELLOW AMERICANS
first console game was probably earthbound or donkey kong country, first pc game was ori and the blind forest
Chex Quest, I just copied the files but this was 1995.
Minecraft, as god(notch) intended. Probably following some YouTube tutorial
pokemon red/blue
gta vc or sa, I just typed in the search bar "gta vc free download"
I discovered torrent when I was 13 and discovered safe piracy sites when I was 16
quake 2
I still believe that piracy is bad for the morals and ethics however...
Sketchy website
Duke Nukem
Finding out I could play DS games on my PC was a wonderful feeling. I remember playing Pokémon Pearl with my sister. We eventually bought our own DS consoles because of it. Good times.
Emulation does more good than harm. A lot of the games I pirated I ended up purchasing because I liked it, while the ones I didn't buy were the things I didn't like.
Emulation doesn't hurt sales nearly as much as big corporations want people to think. What it ACTUALLY does is allow you to circumvent the lack of consumer friendly marketing tactics (the amount of proper demos for big games are becoming less available and more restrictive as the years go on) and avoid scummy practices like shitty DRM, forced online, and selling a full game in multiple pieces passed off as "DLC".
DoW with the imp. guard expansion
got it from a mate legit white disc with DoW sharpied on it
pirates are the vegans of video games