Remember how they used to copy protect games?

[notfred]

"Please enter the second word of the 4th sentance on page 34 of the manual".

Those were annoying.

 

[iamme]

lol, i remember those.

i think The Bard's Tale had that

 

[Platypus]

Remember when milk came in glass bottles?

 

[jemcam]

Originally posted by: notfred
"Please enter the second word of the 4th sentance on page 34 of the manual".

Those were annoying.

I remember those back in the DOS days when the whole game was on one floppy disk! You couldn't ever lose the manual or the game would be worthless.

 

[Electric Amish]

Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation
Remember when milk came in glass bottles?

I remember when milk came in plastic bags....

amish

 

[Jzero]

And freakin' Zak McKraken with that huge two-tone card that couldn't be photocopied, but was also impossible to read...

Monkey Island had a wheel that you had to match pieces of pirate heads and put in a number that appeared in a window. My friend made me a photocopy of the wheel in every possible position.
I asked him why he didn't just pull the two pieces apart and make a copy of each and build another wheel.
He didn't think of that.

 

[Zenmervolt]

You have brought back fond memories of time spent playing "Stunts" by Broderbund. I can still remember the box proudly proclaiming, "Excellent polygonal graphics!"

ZV

 

[MacGaven]

I remember I wanted to Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and it kept asking me for some keyword. Aghhhh!! Damn you!

 

[Jzero]

Originally posted by: jemcam

Originally posted by: notfred
"Please enter the second word of the 4th sentance on page 34 of the manual".

Those were annoying.

I remember those back in the DOS days when the whole game was on one floppy disk! You couldn't ever lose the manual or the game would be worthless.

Hahahaha
Wasteland comes to mind. And that auto-save feature you could really screw yourself.

 

[aphex]

Man i remember playin Prince of Persia and thinking how amazing the graphics were.

 

[ShotgunSteven]

We pulled apart the code wheel and copied the sections for Bard's Tale III: The Thief Of Fate.

The original "Empire" game, I would just type the word "the" in over and over and eventually I would be able to play.

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Originally posted by: Jzero

Originally posted by: jemcam

Originally posted by: notfred
"Please enter the second word of the 4th sentance on page 34 of the manual".

Those were annoying.

I remember those back in the DOS days when the whole game was on one floppy disk! You couldn't ever lose the manual or the game would be worthless.

Hahahaha
Wasteland comes to mind. And that auto-save feature you could really screw yourself.

Wasteland did not have a keyword to get into the game though, it just had a paragraph book of in game text that you needed to find out what was being said or what you read in the game.

 

[wasssup]

Originally posted by: Electric Amish

Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation
Remember when milk came in glass bottles?

I remember when milk came in plastic bags....

amish

haha yeah, whenever i go visit my grandma in india i see milk delivered to your door in those little plastic bags...that milk tastes like crap though.

 

[jemcam]

Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
You have brought back fond memories of time spent playing "Stunts" by Broderbund. I can still remember the box proudly proclaiming, "Excellent polygonal graphics!"

ZV

Yes, "stunts", that's one I think I remember. It was pretty cool though, you could adjust the gravity on your Mustang so when it hit a jump it would fly forever.

 

[Jzero]

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteve

Originally posted by: Jzero

Originally posted by: jemcam

Originally posted by: notfred
"Please enter the second word of the 4th sentance on page 34 of the manual".

Those were annoying.

I remember those back in the DOS days when the whole game was on one floppy disk! You couldn't ever lose the manual or the game would be worthless.

Hahahaha
Wasteland comes to mind. And that auto-save feature you could really screw yourself.

Wasteland did not have a keyword to get into the game though, it just had a paragraph book of in game text that you needed to find out what was being said or what you read in the game.

You had to look up entries in the booklet, and answers to questions posed by NPCs came from the booklet (e.g. "URABUTLN" you find carved into the table in the bar, and you have to say that to the barmaid after inspecting the table and reading the appropriate entry describing the letters carved into the table).

It's the same concept as looking up a specific word in the manual, it's just better integrated into the gameplay.

Except many of the entries were bogus, and to discourage you from attempting to get a leg up by reading through the booklet, if you answer a question with a word froma bogus entry, the game totally goes bonkers AND it will auto-save.

You = Screwed after that

 

[ShotgunSteven]

What version did you play? I have played the Apple IIE version, and the PC version, and neither had autosave that I recall.

EDIT: BTW, my characters in the PC version are Gawdlike now, they can walk up to the Scorpitron in Vegas buck-naked, and kill it with their Pugilism skills.

 

[illusion88]

Originally posted by: jemcam

Originally posted by: notfred
"Please enter the second word of the 4th sentance on page 34 of the manual".

Those were annoying.

I remember those back in the DOS days when the whole game was on one floppy disk! You couldn't ever lose the manual or the game would be worthless.

no, you could go into the dos editer and see the answers, at least a bunch of them, not all of them. So when you got a question you didnt know, you just restarted teh game.

 

[BigSmooth]

Remember when oranges and watermelons had seeds in them?

Man, we used to live like barbarians.

 

That was when breaking copyprotection was still fun and enjoyable.

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

Originally posted by: notfred
"Please enter the second word of the 4th sentance on page 34 of the manual".

Those were annoying.

remember how you would get around that?

xerox the manual, or write out an answer key.

lol the good ol days.

 

[Jzero]

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteve
What version did you play? I have played the Apple IIE version, and the PC version, and neither had autosave that I recall.

EDIT: BTW, my characters in the PC version are Gawdlike now, they can walk up to the Scorpitron in Vegas buck-naked, and kill it with their Pugilism skills.

I played the C-64 version and later the PC version that was re-released a few years ago in some compilation. In both of those versions, the game auto-saved anytime you went from a city into the desert or vice versa.

The PC one was great b/c it fit onto a single floppy disk. When I worked in the computer labs at school, I'd just bring the disk with me to whatever lab I was in and enjoyed playing knowing I was making $6.25/hr doing so

 

[Alternex]

Copying games was a pain then.. had to photocopy the whole manual which ended up being a 1 inch thich stack of papers

 

[vi edit]

Lucas Arts was notorious for that. Xwing, Tie fighter, Dark forces...ect

 

[Doggiedog]

I remember the copy protection EA used to use on C-64 games. They would do something to the floppy drive to knock the head out of alignment so it would read a different track. I used to have an Indus disk drive so I could never play any games from EA.

I also remember some company using an dark indigo colored paper with lots of code words on it. I remember trying to photocopy it but it coming out totally dark. Pretty clever.

 

[Joker81]

wolfenstein 3D: SPEAR OF DESTINY also had the same type of deal. I remember one of the questions was. How many eyelets are on (main guys name) on pg (blah). I think it was 7 or something. Where in the world is carmen sandiego was similiar in that you had to use the mini encyclopaedia and the manual to solve the game.