• darkpanda@lemmy.ca
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    9 months ago

    PC games in he 90s were like cereal boxes filled with a few CDs and a the barest of a manual. In the 80s it was the same except it was floppy disks and the manual was needed to get through the copy protection. Sometimes you’d even get a decoder ring of some sorts to decode something for the copy protection.

    Good times.

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      9 months ago

      Copy protection was a thing well into the 00s and early 2010s. Had to read the code on the manual to install.

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        9 months ago

        Yeah but it wasn’t as fun as in the 80s and 90s when they’d be sending you on a treasure hunt through the manual to find specific words and letters like you were in the DaVinci Code.