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[–] DjMeas@lemm.ee 114 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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 1 year ago

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

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 1 year 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 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] Hildegarde@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year 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.

[–] maccentric@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

It was anti-piracy; you had to have the physical manual to know the correct word.