While it is true I couldn't afford the games I played as a teen, I'm confident I would have pirated them anyway. It had less to do with the game, and more about

While it is true I couldn't afford the games I played as a teen, I'm confident I would have pirated them anyway. It had less to do with the game, and more about the conquest. When you discovered that a certain game had a keygen or was cracked, and you could get it for free, there was a certain rush of endorphins that would occur. Many of these games went mostly unplayed in my collection while I moved on to see what else I could get (if I recall, I did most of my searching on IRC and the games were downloaded via DCC, but my memory is getting fuzzy on the details). What nostalgia... that was back when piracy went mostly unpoliced as only the uber nerds were doing it or knew how (just remembering we called pirated software "warez" back then).