One summer in the late 70's my buddy and I got on our bikes around midnight with a pocket full of quarters and rode 20+ miles on back roads to get to the 7-11 in the nearby city to play Pac Man.
Once we shot our load we crawled to a nearby park and slept in the dirt.
No one knew where we were and we got home safely. Good times.
hilariously there were some Atari 2600 games that had a kind of equivalent to an online subscription model. You'd load games onto a special cart through a phone line and they'd play like 5 times then delete themselves, then you'd have to pay to download the rom again.
that company eventually became America Online so I guess they were always evil
I sometimes memorized the "copy protection" answers without having to check the manual or lore books. X-Wing was one such game. I could identify which trio of Aurabesh characters was associated with Kashyyyk and the like. :chomsky-yes-honey:
Tell her what quarters are and what they were used for.
One summer in the late 70's my buddy and I got on our bikes around midnight with a pocket full of quarters and rode 20+ miles on back roads to get to the 7-11 in the nearby city to play Pac Man.
Once we shot our load we crawled to a nearby park and slept in the dirt.
No one knew where we were and we got home safely. Good times.
Hell yeah, I love that we have some older folks on here
It sure was a coincidence that my pre-school age kids liked all the same games that I wanted for Christmas for the NES. What a funny thing.
Very relatable, except for me it was PS2 and GameCube
I have. :flattened-bernie:
“Oh, so you still had subscriptions. You just didn’t get new content for yours”
hilariously there were some Atari 2600 games that had a kind of equivalent to an online subscription model. You'd load games onto a special cart through a phone line and they'd play like 5 times then delete themselves, then you'd have to pay to download the rom again.
that company eventually became America Online so I guess they were always evil
Old DRM was the wild west, my dad kept a binder full of code wheels and password tables in the cabinet above his DOS shitbox
I sometimes memorized the "copy protection" answers without having to check the manual or lore books. X-Wing was one such game. I could identify which trio of Aurabesh characters was associated with Kashyyyk and the like. :chomsky-yes-honey:
Pretty sure my parents got me a Nintendo to keep me from spending $20 a rip at the arcade.