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:
“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: