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Tell me what it means (lemm.ee)

submitted 3 months ago by sag@lemm.ee to c/memes@lemmy.world

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[-] DjMeas@lemm.ee 112 points 3 months ago

To continue installing a game you had to type in the 7th word found on page 16, paragraph 3 on line 4.

[-] ItsAFake@piefed.social 15 points 3 months ago

But you need this special plastic lense to record the word, but you only get that one.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

I remember the wheel that came with monkey island and test drive 3. I disassembled that shit and made xerox copies, then gave them to my friends.

[-] TSG_Asmodeus@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Haha, my father and I did that for Battle of Britain and... Mines of Titan, I think, was the other one.

[-] watersnipje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 months ago

Huh? What does this mean?

[-] Hildegarde@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

Old anti piracy measure.

Games were on floppies and could be copied trivially. Games also came with a printed instruction manual. If you bought it, you'd have the manual. If you're just playing a copy you wouldn't. So type one word from a specific page so we know you own the game.