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Oh man, I loved the keen games. As a young lad in the UK, it always frustrated me how hard buying the full version of shareware software was - the buy screens a
by giobox 10y ago
Oh man, I loved the keen games. As a young lad in the UK, it always frustrated me how hard buying the full version of shareware software was - the buy screens always had US address/phone numbers for purchasing, and back in the early 90s convincing one's parents of the legitimacy of such a weird foreign transaction was no easy task.
I think I eventually managed to get floppies with the full versions of most of Apogee's catalog through various friends/acquaintances.
- teekert 10y agoHa, True! The strangest thing was that you could often buy games on floppies at the stores but they were almost always shareware, with just a single level to play. Never did we get original games, at least, not in the stores. Floppies were traded like crazy, legal games just didn't seem to be available back then. (At least here in the Netherlands, in the early 90's)
- jvdl 10y agoEven worse in South Africa! I only got to play the shareware versions as a kid from floppies included with (I think) Computer Shopper magazines, which my dad used to buy.