07 October 2009, 14:32 | #41 |
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07 October 2009, 15:50 | #42 |
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Everyone had a copy of Giana Sisters Didnt they this couldnt be bought legaly
Most of my games were hardware backups a few cracks and originals |
08 October 2009, 00:46 | #43 |
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I had a lot of originals but also managed to get games using other methods - can't quite recall what those methods were now but it didn't involve visiting my bank
Some games i just wanted to own in their original glorious boxes like Birds of Prey, Starglider 1- 2, Damocles,Wings, Stunt Car, F18, Fighter bomber and Midwinter - all 3d funny enough but then there was Elfmania as well which i wasn't all that happy i'd bought Ah these were the best days.Spoilt for choice these days of course what with them being so old |
08 October 2009, 02:06 | #44 |
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The games I bought was Wings, Godfather och some mobster game. I got the other 200 from swapping and copying from my friends. I would have bought all of the games if I hadn't got a virus from that mobster game when I bought it. I lost all of my confidence in shops after that incident.
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08 October 2009, 02:12 | #45 |
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08 October 2009, 02:18 | #46 |
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08 October 2009, 02:21 | #47 |
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That's sadly true. A pirate copy blockbuster.
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08 October 2009, 02:21 | #48 |
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08 October 2009, 09:08 | #49 |
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Well I didn't have much money when I was little, so I was only too happy when my dad found "a friend" who copied and sold games. He provided a disc that listed all the games he had (which was basically every amiga game in existence, no matter how obscure). At the time it was 2.50 guilders per disc, or 1 guilder if you provided the disc yourself. If one game didn't work, he would actually spend the time trying to figure out how to make it work for you; it took ages to get Wrath of the Demon working
My child years were spent happily buying Amiga Actions, playing the demos and compiling a list of games that I would want from the guy, until I have enough pocket money saved up to get at least 10 new games. Of course today I am still as cheap: I refuse to buy games at full price unless they are so good I must have them at once. Which is not too often this century. |
08 October 2009, 09:16 | #50 |
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I never paid money to get the latest "backups". It was so easy to swap them with friends. But my first game was indeed an original, Starglider 2.
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08 October 2009, 09:39 | #51 |
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almost forgot, every time I was in Warsaw I run to the underground passage near central railway station to buy Amiga Action (news-stands in there where the only places in Poland I knew it could be bought ). Sometimes there were demo disks attached but mostly they were torn away by some wankers (they probably wanted to sell them separately)
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08 October 2009, 09:59 | #52 |
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I used to 'borrow' my friends backups, of which he had no original of anyway, and never give them back - he had better sources than me.
I was a scummy thief who stole from a scummy pirate. |
10 October 2009, 01:57 | #53 |
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I used to drunkenly scream binary into the floppy drive slot until the latest 0 day warez came up.
Forget 14.4s, all I needed was scrumpy. |
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