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This was definitely not before pirating. Some C64 games came on cassettes and were extremely easy to pirate (compared to cartridges). And even before that, arc
by rplnt 8y ago
This was definitely not before pirating.
Some C64 games came on cassettes and were extremely easy to pirate (compared to cartridges). And even before that, arcade games were "pirated", so instead of a license an operator would buy a clone.
Of course the scale would be different than it was with the Internet around.
- amorphous 8y agoTrue, I meant large-scale pirating, torrenting etc.
- satsuma 8y agothe video game crash was mostly north america/usa though, wasn't it? from what i've heard europe wasn't as affected by atari's woes and kept chugging along with home computers over consoles.
- ChristianGeek 8y agoNo kidding. I was working on a game for the Atari 800 in 1980 and got a floppy disk with a bunch of pirated games from a friend of mine that included a copy of my incomplete game! To this day I have no idea how that happened.