DigitalDilemmaFeb 2

42 years ago, this was state of the art copy protection

https://lemmy.ml/post/42570885

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A direct ancestor to the glorious Monkey Island Dial-a-pirate!

The Secret of Monkey Island - Dial A Pirate

The Secret of Monkey Island - Online Interactive Code Wheel. Dial-A-Pirate Code Wheel is form of copy protection from original The Secret of Monkey Island Retail boxed game developed by LucasFilm Games in 1990...

Feb 2 at 10:13amWeb
Show threadtomiantFeb 2

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade for Amiga I think it was which came with a photocopy proof translation table that you used with a red piece of translucent plastic overlay, which would reveal the codes underneath.

Or maybe that was Zak McKracken. 

Both amazing games. I remember the Monkey Island 2 one also, but I think we had cracked versions for all of those games anyway tbh. :)

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ye Monkey Island was easy to photocopy :D

I remember in my local PC shop, they had a whole binder of copy-protection mechanisms they would photocopy from when they sold you a pirated game :D

Show threadtomiantFeb 2
A simpler, objectively better, time.