Comment on The Console That Wasn’t: How the Commodore 64 Outsold Game Consoles

jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• monica_b1998@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  …and a high percentage of those were copied illegally. I’m not judging, just stating a fact

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  • UnspecificGravity@piefed.social ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    We literally had hundreds of games and had bought maybe ten of them.

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    • monica_b1998@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Your percentage of legal games was probably still higher than average 😉

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      • random_character_a@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Here there was no sensible way to buy C64 games till the early 90’s. Late 80’s you could find few games “under the counter” in shops specialised in electronics, if you asked. They were usually expensive garbage and picked by someone, because of the cover art. There was always the one obscure flight sim for adults that was also shit.

        So 100% illegal copies.

        If somebody found a good game it was quickly bartered and copied to everyone else.

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  • DrunkenPirate@feddit.org ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s were I started to get a big friends base in my neighborhood. Visit friends, play some games together, and copy floppy disks.

    I loved those starter pics and animations of the hacker groups.

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    • monica_b1998@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      good old times. those “starter animations” are called “intros”. this one has my favorite SID music: www.youtube.com/watch?v=j069Eve63iY

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